It seems having issues with the shipping is our yearly tradition, but I didn’t expect politics to come in and mess with the process. That’s exactly what happened this time, beside a few absolutely relevant problems we also encountered along the way.

If your entry ended up in the top 100 games overall, then you’ve just received an email with all the details about this year’s t-shirts and how to claim them — and an offer to grab one of the limited originals from previous years.

The js13kGames 2025 winners have been announced a few days ago already, including all the category rankings. Let’s see the specific criteria that comprise the overall results. Plus some extra rankings about the voters in our community.

Here are the winners of the fourteenth annual js13kGames competition! Congratulations to all authors of the 197 games submitted this year.

A year ago on our Slack channel we had a heated debate about the ability to send post-deadline fixes, trying to figure out what exactly is and is not allowed. This crept up again — and it needs proper addressing.

Our third Community Soundtrack is up on Bandcamp already, thanks to João Lopes. You can listen to some fine music from this year’s games — and add your own to the album as well.

We’ve wrapped the 14th yearly edition of the js13kGames competition with 197 entries. Thank you all so much for making so many tiny web games! Now is the time to start voting and picking the winners!

This year’s t-shirt design along with the gadget are here: the packages containing the t-shirt and two dice (red and black), as every year, will be shipped for free to the authors of the top 100 entries.

Initially discussed last year, and with your feedback from the past few weeks, we’ve decided to slightly update the voting criteria to improve ratings overall.

We’re introducing the Online category for those who miss the defunct Server category we had in the past. You can now bring in multiplayer features easily without worrying about the server, thanks to a relay hosted by Cloudflare.

We’re opening the submit form for js13kGames 2025, so make sure to create your draft early if you plan on submitting an entry this year.

The fourteenth annual online js13kGames competition starts… NOW! Build a web game following the theme within the next month and fit it into a 13KB zip package to win lots of cool prizes, eternal fame, and respect from fellow devs!

Thanks to the Meta Quest Japan team, you once again get a chance to win VR hardware in the WebXR category. This year we’ve got a Meta Quest 3S headset for the winner of the category.

It’s June 13th and high time to count down to the fourteenth edition of js13kGames, the annual online competition for web game developers. Expect partners, experts, and prizes to be announced in the next few weeks up until the start on August 13th.