KAJAM is the first edition of the competition of KAPLAY games, as you may know, KAPLAY is the JavaScript & TypeScript easiest game library, it feels like a game, but coding!

KAPLAY v3001 STABLE release date is 31 of October, with the start of this jam! The trailer will be uploaded to YouTube with the theme revelation.

Theme

REBIRTH

Challenges (optional)

These are optional themes/challenges you can add to your game to win extra prizes. They are judged by separately. So jam winners are not automatically challenge winners too.

• Multiplayer Challenge: Colyseus, the easiest multiplayer JavaScript framework, sponsors this challenge. You should add a multiplayer feature to your game using KAPLAY + Colyseus. 

Rules

• Game should be made using KAPLAY (resources can be found at the end)
• Any team size, go alone or in team
• Game should be made from scratch (templates or plugins are ok, but no previous coded mechanics)
• Use your own assets (not AI) or free assets (here is a list of good ones for this jam)
• Game must follow theme, is not optional
• Not NSFW games!

Prizes

There are prizes!

• 3nd Winner: Winner role on Discord + Your game showcased on kaplayjs.com + Aseprite key
• 2nd Winner: All previous + $20 Steam gift card + Your idea in a KAPLAY sprite
  
• 1st Winner: All previous  + SpriteMancer key  + Your game featured on next game jam!
• Multiplayer Challenge: $40 Steam gift card + Any game on itch.io valuable on $20

Resources

Learn JavaScript to make games by JSLegendDev

Learn KAPLAY with a crash course by JSLegendDev

KAPLAY on Itch.io

• KAPLAY Documentation: https://kaplayjs.com
• KAPLAY Discord
• Colyseus Documentation

Previous Winner!

Here's our previous jam, Kaboom.js Bag's Bags Jam, I wanna shrinking, an awesome and very polished game about reduce size of things, awesome!

Sponsors

Colyseus, framework for making Online & Multiplayer games.

Contribute to KAPLAY

KAPLAY is non-profit, free and open-source for all the community! So we depend on your donations to maintain this renewable and also give all these prizes, or even better ones!