Introducing our First Community Web Game Challenge 👾

We are so excited to announce our first community Web Game Challenge!

Running through September 29, the Web Game Challenge will be an opportunity to exercise your creativity, show off your skills, and have fun!

Long-time DEV member Andrzej Mazur will be joining us as a special guest judge to kick off this challenge. Andrzej is heavily involved in the gaming community and has opened an indie studio, Enclave Games, created the js13kGames competition, initiated the Gamedev.js community, and more!

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Web Game Developer, Enclave Games indie studio founder, js13kGames compo creator, Gamedev.js community firestarter, Gamedev.js Weekly newsletter publisher. 🕸️🎮

For this challenge, we will have two prompts: one that involves building a game, and one that explains how. Each prompt will have one winner, and each winner will receive:

• A 6-month DEV++ Membership
• An exclusive DEV badge of honor
• A gift from the DEV Shop.

As with all challenges, all participants with a valid submission will receive a completion badge for their efforts.

Let’s get gaming!

Our Prompts

Build a Web Game: Aliens

Design and build any HTML5 game that incorporates Aliens as a theme. The only requirement is that your game should be playable directly in a web browser.

We can’t wait to see (and play with) what you build!

Web Game Submission Template

Please review all judging criteria and challenge rules on the official challenge page before submitting.

One Byte Explainer

Don’t have time to build an entire game? Not to worry! You can participate by sharing your knowledge in a One Byte Explainer.

Present a web dev concept that a game dev might find useful (i.e. “What is a canvas in HTML”) or a game development argument/concept (i.e choosing one game engine over another, or “What is a game loop?”) in 256 characters or less.

You have 256 characters – less than a tweet – to get your point across so the challenge is keeping it simple, concise, and effective.

One Byte Explainer Template

Please review all judging criteria and challenge rules on the official challenge page before submitting.

We hope you give both challenges a try! Early submissions of the one-byte-explainer are appreciated in case it helps someone with the game challenge.

How To Participate

In order to participate, you will need to publish a post using the submission template associated with each prompt.

Please review our full rules, guidelines, and FAQ page before submitting so you understand our participation guidelines and official contests rules such eligibility requirements.

Important Dates

• September 18: Web Game Challenge: Alien Edition begins!
• September 29: Submissions due at 11:59 PM PDT
• October 1: Winners Announced

We are very excited for your Web Game Challenge submissions! Questions? Ask them below.

Good luck and happy coding!

Comments

[Ben Halpern]

Good luck everyone!

[Jim Hill]

Can't wait to play through these submissions!

[chintanonweb]

Nice challenge, I'm in!

[Jess Lee]

This is going to be a fun one!!

[Practicing Datscy]

I think that the game is a great idea, however I think the topic "Aliens" incites fear and mockery (because we laugh at things that scare us so that we are less afraid). Why do different things have to be banalized and treated with disrespect, and even given a special name called "Aliens" because people are so afraid of different things? Maybe coding something could be beneficial to come to peace with the concept of "Aliens". Thank you for creating this challenge.

[J USA]

Interesting. Just to clarify, I see that you italicized the word Aliens for the topic. Does this refer to the concept of aliens in general, or must the game somehow be related to the retro game Aliens? Good luck to all participants!

[Jess Lee]

The concept of aliens in general! Will remove the italicizing, thanks for letting us know that was creating confusion.