Enclave Games

Enclave Games Monthly Report: March 2026

Thu, 02 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT

Last month everything revolved around Gamedev.js Jam 2026, the preparations to the seventh yearly edition are in full swing. Lots of prizes, partners, experts, and challenges were announced already, with more coming soon as the jam starts April 13th already.

Games

No, nothing.

Writing

Only a handful of posts mentioned throughout this report anyway.

Events

I’ve attended meet.js Summit 2026 here in Warsaw - it was the celebration of the fifteen years of meet.js in Poland, and good opportunity to chat with some old friends I haven’t seen in a while.

The upcoming Gamedev.js Jam 2026 have three optional challenges so far:

There are more to be announced, including YouTube Playables (still missing the prizes and experts) and Ethereum (main partner and all the details).

Other

My GitHub Star status was renewed for the sixth time, I’m really happy to be part of this group of talented folks, reminds me the good times of the Mozilla Tech Speakers.

I’ve posted celebrating Enclave Games’ anniversary with the logo minifigures as March 10th is the day the Enclave Games legal company was created all the way back in 2017, though it was a brand since 2012 already.

Plans for the next month

Run Gamedev.js Jam 2026.

Celebrating Enclave Games' anniversary with the logo minifigures

Tue, 10 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT

After looking back at the first versions of the Enclave Games logo two years ago, this time I’d like to bring the two minifigures I bought that are referencing the original artwork.

Today is the ninth year anniversary of starting the company - when the Enclave Games indentity was forming a few years earlier in 2012 I had the Enclave faction from Fallout 2 in mind. The name stayed, while the logo had to be changed given the IP restrictions from Bethesda.

I had the sentiment for the Enclave’s Power Armor over the years though and at some point was looking for some gadgets I could have.

There were some bad news and some good news. The bad news: the Fallout 2 game was long forgotten, given Bethesda took over the franchise and made Fallout 3 and 4. The good news: one of the Enclave’s Power Armor types used in the game, X-01, resembled the original quite well.

It was “close enough” for me, so I started looking for X-01 toys. While there weren’t that many, especially that the Fallout 4 game was out years ago already, I managed to track an old Funko Pop! series, and Modiphius’ Fallout: Wasteland Warfare tabletop RPG.

I had to sweep through eBay to get what I wanted, and spent more than I can admit, but ultimately both the X-01 Power Armor Funko Pop! vinyl figure (shipped from Australia) and X-01 Survivor and Dogmeat resin miniature (shipped from UK) arrived.

I could imagine having a custom made (or 3D printed) helmet resembling the original, but those two are the next best thing. It’s quite funny to think about it now after investing so much time into Warhammer recently as I’m seeing Fallout: Wasteland Warfare models making a return and being popular again.

It seems I might need to take the Funko out of the sealed box to play with my daughter as she really likes the X-01. Also, her Shank Funko Pop! (Ewa’s, but Kasia is constantly borrowing it) would finally have a proper companion instead of Octocat plushies and Barbie dolls.

Enclave Games Monthly Report: February 2026

Mon, 02 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT

Finally a truly positive month: we’ve shipped the js13kGames 2025 t-shirts, released a Valentine’s level in Flood Escape, and started the countdown to Gamedev.js Jam 2026.

Games

Not quite the new game, but we’ve spontaneously released a brand new level for Flood Escape: Valentine’s Day. It went out on the 14th in the evening, but I guess it’s better this way than doing absolutely nothing.

It adds to a growing list of various thematic levels, and it’s fairly easy to add new ones.

Writing

Wrote a few pieces this month, including two longer articles: about Warhammer and the Enclave Games’ summary of 2025.

[13.02] Countdown to Gamedev.js Jam 2026 and call for partners
[14.02] New Valentine’s Day level in Flood Escape
[19.02] I went all-in into Warhammer
[26.02] js13kGames 2025 t-shirts shipped
[27.02] Enclave Games in 2025, and plans for 2026

Events

On the 13th I’ve started the countdown to the seventh edition of the Gamedev.js Jam, though given all the catching up I didn’t do much after all. Hopefully that’ll change in the coming days.

After a couple of delays, with extra steps in the process, and much needed help, the js13kGames 2025 swag was finally shipped!

Other

I wrote in Polish about me confirming with the diagnosis and getting official papers that I’m in the autism spectrum (Asperger’s syndrome), same as my daughter.

Plans for the next month

Focus on the Gamedev.js Jam 2026 preparations, attend meet.js Summit 2026 in Warsaw.

Enclave Games Monthly Report: January 2026

Sat, 28 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMT

January went really fast, but we’ve managed to release the Current state of Web Game Development in 2025 report before the end of the month and attend GitHub Universe 2025 Recap in Warsaw.

Games

No.

Writing

I wrote and published three pieces in January: one on the Gamedev.js site and two on my personal blog.

[27.01] Report on the current state of Web Game Development in 2025 is out!
[19.01] GitHub Universe Recap Warsaw
[30.01] My Neuroshima Hex achievements in 2025

Events

Survey results were out, and there’s a new Beehiiv newsletter dedicated to the Gamedev.js Survey you can (un)subscribe at any time now.

To prevent running the 2026 edition in December yet again I’ve announced the dates in advance: August 18th - September 18th. To go even further the dates for the 2027 edition are up as well: April 18th - May 18th.

I enjoyed attending GitHub Universe 2025 Recap in Warsaw: listening to the talks, recalling how the Universe itself in San Francisco went, and meeting with friends.

Other

All five Gamedev.js Weekly newsletter issues were emailed on time, which is an achievement on itself.

I’ve added a Dyno bot to the Gamedev.js Discord server, so moderators can see the logs and fight with spam better.

Plans for the next month

Trying to catch up.

Enclave Games in 2025, and plans for 2026

Fri, 27 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMT

Last year was quite similar to the previous one as unfortunately no new games were released, but at least it was quite similar to the previous one as all the usual events and activities were organized more or less on time.

The fact that the Yearly Report is out at the very end of February instead of the first week of January tells you a lot already, maybe I’m not past the burnout yet, or maybe I simply have too much on my plate. Anyway, let’s focus on summarizing the twelve months of 2025.

This is the eleventh Yearly Report already - make sure to check the previous ones if you want to learn more about our history: 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, and 2024.

Let’s start by reviewing the plans I had a year ago:

BACK TO MAKING GAMES! If I don’t build and release a single game in 2025 I’ll quit calling Enclave Games an Indie Game Development Studio and start calling it Event Organizing Company instead. Rebranding to Enclave Events I guess.
Usual stuff with Gamedev.js Jam 2025, Gamedev.js Survey 2025, Gamedev.js Weekly issues, and js13kGames 2025. At least that went ok, though the Survey was conducted in the last possible moment in December just before Christmas.
More involvement in OP Guild, exploring all the possibilities with Arcadia and OP Games. OP Guild ended abruptly after a few months, so there’s that…
Check out Telegram, Discord, LinkedIn, and other platforms accepting web games, and try to submit my own (hopefully brand new). Nope, zero.
Write the js13kGames history ebook. Not a single chapter.

Barely one out of five. I’m starting to think making plans makes no sense whatsoever.

Now, a quick recap of 2025, month-by-month:

January: Gamedev.js Survey 2024 Report, writing on the Gamedev.js site (10 articles)
February: js13kGames 2024 t-shirt shipped, more writing (18 articles)
March: W3C Loading and Control Community Group, new blog engine on Astro, even more writing (21 articles!)
April: Gamedev.js Jam 2025, a bit less writing on Gamedev.js (12 articles)
May: Gamedev.js Jam 2025 winners, js13kGames shader
June: OP Guild on hold
July: js13kGames 2025 preparations
August: js13kGames 2025 start, Online category
September: js13kGames 2025 deadline
October: js13kGames 2025 winners, GitHub Universe
November: Devconnect, ETHGlobal with Bober River Flow
December: Gamedev.js Survey 2025, Wawtech

Let’s look at the past year in detail and see what happened to Enclave Games in 2025.

Bad things

Absolutely no traffic in our t-shirt Shops, but that’s what you get if you put zero effort into marketing. Same for the speaking gigs I guess. I’m going to skip those two in next year’s summary for sure.

Still no games, and almost no usage of the GitHub Copilot I have access to. One simple demo of Bober River Flow made in a couple of hours throughout the whole year is definitely not enough.

Leading OP Guild as part of the OP Games cooperation ended in the first months of the year. I’m thinking of trying to revive it on my own though, especially given the upcoming Gamedev.js Jam 2026 will have the ETH Challenge.

I’m still struggling with crippling procrastination and lack of motivation, which is weird since I’m working on whatever I want and whenever I want as part of running Enclave Games. It involves my passion, making games, so what’s the problem? Something is definitely not right.

Ok things

Wrote lots of news pieces on the Gamedev.js website, but after a few months I had to switch focus to the usual: the jam and the competition.

Gamedev.js Survey 2025 was open in December, again. Better late than never! I did set the date for this year already to be around js13kGames 2026 though.

Good things

The Gamedev.js Weekly newsletter, even though happened to be out a day or two later than planned from time to time, generally was being emailed to subscribers every single week in 2025.

Gamedev.js Jam 2025 was a success with the record breaking number of participants, entries submitted, and votes cast. Lots of cool games to play, so definitely check those out.

The js13kGames 2025 competition went well, and we even introduced the new Online category with the support from Cloudflare.

Not only I was able to visit San Francisco for GitHub Universe, but also got the opportunity to fly to Buenos Aires for Devconnect 2025, which I really enjoyed.

I was involved with, and ended up on the printed boxes or their rulebooks in all the Neuroshima Hex projects released in 2025. I also dived deep into Warhammer.

Plans for 2026

Build a game with GitHub Copilot, using Phaser, in VS Code, preferably via the 100 Days of Vibe. It could even be expanding on the Bober River Flow demo or something similar.

Don’t forget to run Gamedev.js Jam 2026, conduct Gamedev.js Survey 2026 NOT in December, send Gamedev.js Weekly newsletter issues regularly, and run js13kGames 2026 without (major) problems.

Write that js13kGames ebook, or don’t. Maybe it’s not meant to be.

New Valentine's Day level in Flood Escape

Sat, 14 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMT

We haven’t released any new games for some time now, and since today is Valentine’s Day, we’ve decided to at least create a new level for Flood Escape.

This is the tenth level for the game that we’ve made all the way back in 2017:

Island, City, and Docks (May 2017 in the original release)
Christmas (December 2017)
Football (July 2018 for World Cup)
Arcade (November 2019 for MozFest)
Winter (January 2020)
Halloween (October 2022)
Badlucky (June 2024)
Valentine’s Day (February 2026)

Unlock this new level in the game or use the cheat code below to access it directly:

flood.enclavegames.com/?cheatcode=Love

I do hope we’ll develop a new game soon, but I guess for now this is better than nothing.

Enclave Games Monthly Report: December 2025

Tue, 06 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMT

Last month of the year hosted another edition of the Gamedev.js Survey, and I also attended a local conference here in Warsaw.

Games

Nope, nothing.

Writing

Not much, if you don’t count the posts of the two events already mentioned in the intro.

Events

Gamedev.js Survey 2025 was open between December 8th and 19th, and it ended up collecting 445 surveys, mostly thanks to the support from GitHub and game engines like Phaser or GDevelop.

As part of the Community Partnership between Gamedev.js and WAWTECH I attended the WAWTECH 2025 conference happening December 16th-17th in Warsaw - enjoyed interesting talks, a drone workshop, and spent some time with old friends.

Around the end of the month I finally received a confirmation the delayed js13kGames dice were finally shipped - they should arrive sometime in January. As soon as I receive them we’ll prepare the packages and ship everything to the 2025 competition winners.

Other

Gamedev.js Weekly has seen issues being sent out regularly through December, even around Christmas and the end of the year, with most of them on Fridays, as planned.

I’m also continuing a combo for my TataDeveloper parenting blog publishing posts every single Monday for ten weeks in a row now.

Plans for the next month

Publish the Gamedev.js Survey 2025 results, aka the current state of Web Game Development report, and finally ship js13kGames 2025 swag.

Also, start preparations to the upcoming Gamedev.js Jam 2026 already.

Enclave Games Monthly Report: November 2025

Tue, 09 Dec 2025 00:00:00 GMT

The original plan assumed joining the Game Off jam and building a game the whole month of November, which ended up being a few hours of vibe coding during one day of ETHGlobal hackathon in Buenos Aires happening during the Devconnect 2025 conference, but that’s still better than nothing.

Games

It was only a couple of hours playing around with GitHub Copilot and vibe coding a 0.0001 version of a game during ETHGlobal at Devconnect, but it’s out - Bober River Flow is published on Itch.io and the messy source code is available on GitHub.

It’s out for the sake of starting something, hopefully it will be easier from now on to get back to coding, use Copilot more, and eventually release a new game.

Writing

Nothing at all (if you don’t count the Devconnect recap, which I technically wrote and published in December), but hey, “Games” is not empty first time in years!

Events

I went all the way to South America for a week to attend Devconnect 2025 thanks to being part of their Scholars program, and enjoyed it very much.

Other

The Gamedev.js Weekly newsletter was more or less sent out rather regularly last month.

The js13kGames 2025 digital prizes were emailed to the winners at the beginning of November. I’ve ordered t-shirts and stickers, both were printed eventually and are ready. I’m still waiting for the dice though. It’s constantly being delayed, so either I’m going to wait who knows how long or skip them entirely. I do hope they arrive soon and we’ll be able to ship complete packages before the end of the year though.

I published some solid content (in Polish) on both TataDeveloper and NeuroshimaHex.pl, with the first having posts each Monday, including a Stranger Things board game review, and the other the new Neuroshima Hex anniversary edition review with a contest.

Plans for the next month

Run Gamedev.js Survey 2025 and hopefully ship js13kGames 2025 swag: t-shirts, dice, and stickers before the end of the year.

Also, attend WAWTECH conference here in Warsaw, since Gamedev.js became a Community Partner and I ended up with the free pass thanks to that.

Enclave Games Monthly Report: October 2025

Wed, 12 Nov 2025 00:00:00 GMT

At the beginning of every October the js13kGames competition winners are announced, and I also found the time to fly to San Francisco for the GitHub Universe conference third year in a row.

Games

Nope, but I’ll try participating in GitHub’s Game Off 2025.

Writing

Not much, but better than nothing:

[04.10] js13kGames: Winners announced!
[10.10] End3r’s Corner: js13kGames 2025 rigid yard sign
[17.10] js13kGames: T-shirts galore: two originals for $13
[20.10] Gamedev.js: js13kGames 2025 winners announced

Events

Wrapping js13kGames: I’ve collected the sizes and addresses for shipping the t-shirts, contacted the printing house, and emailed the digital prizes.

I’ve given a short talk about two communities I manage: js13kGames and Gamedev.js, at the online call as part of the preparations to the upcoming Devconnect 2025 I’ll be attending in Buenos Aires.

The Loading and Control API for Web Games Community Group we’ve discussed a few months back had a few calls already, I’m a co-chair along with Tom Greenaway from Google who leads the way.

I had a few cool discussions about js13kGames during GitHub Universe 2025 in San Francisco, and thanks to Lee Reilly from GitHub we even had the opportunity to play Space Huggers, a js13kGames 2021 entry, on a huge screen in the open during the conference.

Other

I’ve sent the usual amount of Gamedev.js Weekly newsletter issues, though most of them delayed a day or two. Too many things happening, not enough time for everything.

I wrote a short review of the Sticker Mule’s rigid yard sign - looks cool with the js13kGames 2025 design on it.

Plans for the next month

Wrapping multiple unfinished projects (including js13kGames), hopefully participating in Game Off, and attending the Devconnect 2025 conference in Argentina thanks to their Scholar program.

Enclave Games Monthly Report: September 2025

Mon, 06 Oct 2025 00:00:00 GMT

September looked similar to August in terms of work - you guessed it, still js13kGames 2025.

Games

No game development this month.

Writing

Monothematic, as expected:

[04.09] js13kGames: Voting criteria updated
[05.09] js13kGames: T-shirt design and gadget
[14.09] js13kGames: Voting is open!
[17.09] js13kGames: Our third Community Soundtrack is here already
[29.09] js13kGames: On deadlines and fixes

Events

Focusing on js13kGames.

Other

Still sending the Gamedev.js Weekly newsletter issues quite regularly. Same for publishing in Polish on both TataDeveloper and NeuroshimaHex.pl.

Plans for the next month

Wrapping up js13kGames 2025 and then we’ll see. Oh, and flying to San Francisco for GitHub Universe at the end of October.

Enclave Games Monthly Report: August 2025

Wed, 03 Sep 2025 00:00:00 GMT

Every August is almost entirely about the js13kGames competition, and this year’s one is no different - the competition started, theme was announced, submit form opened after a few days, we even introduced the Online category replacing the Server one which was discontinued a few years ago, and you can also win Quest 3S in the WebXR category.

Games

No, nothing this month either.

Writing

Blog posts clearly revoled about the current competition.

[08.08] Gamedev.js: For the Love of Code – GitHub’s global hackathon
[12.08] js13kGames: WebXR category with Meta Quest 3S
[13.08] js13kGames: The competition has started!
[15.08] Gamedev.js: Fourteenth edition of the js13kGames competition started already
[18.08] js13kGames: Submit form is now open
[20.08] js13kGames: Online category with WebSocket relay

Events

Focusing on js13kGames entirely.

Other

Not much beside sending the regular Gamedev.js Weekly issues.

Plans for the next month

Accepting js13kGames 2025 entries up until September 13th, and then opening the voting.

Enclave Games Monthly Report: July 2025

Mon, 04 Aug 2025 00:00:00 GMT

As expected, July revolved around the preparations to the upcoming js13kGames 2025 competition - talking with potential partners, welcoming experts, and acquiring prizes.

Games

Nothing new this time.

Writing

Skipped writing this month to focus on the preparations.

Events

All in for js13kGames.

Other

The Gamedev.js Weekly newsletter issues were emailed regularly in the past weeks - the 600th one was prepared and sent from a hotel room while we were on vacations in Mallorca.

Plans for the next month

Start of the fourteenth edition of the js13kGames competition.

Enclave Games Monthly Report: June 2025

Mon, 14 Jul 2025 00:00:00 GMT

We’ve published the js13kGames 2024 t-shirts gallery last month, and started the countdown to js13kGames 2025. Other than that June was mostly about wrapping things up to be able to freely go on much needed vacations at the beginning of July.

Games

Nothing new this month. I’m thinking of restarting the (failed) 100 Days of Code, but… making it 100 Days of Vibe, so I can have an excuse to play with this concept, since I somehow can’t jump into it on my own.

Writing

A few short posts:

[09.06] Gamedev.js: Real Fishing – in-app purchases case study
[11.06] Gamedev.js: React Advanced London 2025 – join the conference with a 10% discount
[12.06] Gamedev.js: CrazyGames × Defold Web Jam – build a game in 48 hours this weekend
[13.06] js13kGames: The countdown is on!
[16.06] Gamedev.js: js13kGames 2025 kicks off in two months
[19.06] End3r’s Corner: Another one for the wall: Gamedev.js Jam 2025 theme in a Framed Print
[19.06] Gamedev.js: V Shaders challenge winners from Gamedev.js Jam 2025 announced

OP Guild

The OP Guild activities are on hold right now, so I’ll skip updates from the next month going forward until that resumes.

Events

The js13kGames 2024 t-shirt selfies gallery on Facebook have a few pictures already - feel free to send yours as well if you happen to have the t-shirt and want to share that fact using a photo.

Also, the js13kGames 2025 countdown officially started. Currently having lots of conversations with potential partners, but some talks takes a lot of time and effort. Given the budget might be even more limited than before I’m thinking of reducing the free t-shirt count from 100 (introduced in 2018) to 50, but it’s not final yet.

Other

I’ve reviewed a new Sticker Mule product, Framed Print, by putting the Gamedev.js Jam 2025 theme, Balance, into a nice physical frame.

That design was created specifically for this year’s Gamedev.js Jam t-shirts.

Plans for the next month

Continue the preparations to js13kGames 2025, maybe starting 100 Days of Vibe?

Enclave Games Monthly Report: May 2025

Tue, 03 Jun 2025 00:00:00 GMT

Announcing Gamedev.js Jam 2025 overall winners and the best entries in the optional challenges, sending all the digital prizes, releasing the Balance t-shirt design in the online shop, and vibe coding a js13kGames shader - all that happened in May.

Games

Not a game, but I did some “coding”! I mean, I’m not sure anymore as I haven’t written a single line of code, but I did release a shader - check out Vibe coding js13kGames shader for the V Shaders challenge blog post. It’s not much, but it’s js13kGames-branded, animates nicely, don’t throw any errors in the console, and looks good enough. Vibe coded it super fast with ChatGPT.

Am I back to coding if I didn’t write the code? Who knows, but at least I’m closer to building and releasing some games again. It’s high time as the last Enclave Games creation was Forest Cuties - in June… 2021.

Writing

I’ve focused on writing about the Gamedev.js Jam 2025 this month:

[10.05] Gamedev.js: Gamedev.js Jam 2025 winners announced!
[11.05] Gamedev.js: Best entries from the Challenges in Gamedev.js Jam 2025
[20.05] Gamedev.js: New Gamedev.js Jam 2025 t-shirt: Balance!
[21.05] Enclave Games: Vibe coding js13kGames shader for the V Shaders challenge

I’m still quite happy about the shader though.

OP Guild

Winners of the $NOODS challenge in Gamedev.js Jam 2025 were announced, among other challenges.

I’m exploring vibe coding web games, since PotNoodleDev is OP Games’ AI agent who does exactly that.

Events

Michelle “MishManners” Duke and Dobuki Gamer streamed playing Gamedev.js Jam 2025 entries on YouTube - you should definitely check those out, and if you recorded something yourself please let us know.

Landing page of Gamedev.js Jam 2026 is already up, along with the relevant Itch page.

Other

NeuroshimaHex.pl is the official patron of the 20th anniversary edition of Neuroshima Hex in Poland that is planned to be released in September, our logo will land at the back of the box.

Plans for the next month

Start the preparations to js13kGames 2025, hopefully with the website’s sources on GitHub.

Vibe code some games, hopefully.

Vibe coding js13kGames shader for the V Shaders challenge

Wed, 21 May 2025 00:00:00 GMT

I vibe coded a shader in an hour and submitted it to the V Shaders challenge which offers $12k prize pool - you can do it too as the deadline is tomorrow, May 22nd.

One of the optional challenges in the recently ended Gamedev.js Jam 2025 was V Shaders one by the V Systems team, which was all about creating a 16 kilobyte shader and uploading it to their Marketplace as an NFT.

I can’t afford to have enough spare time to participate in my own jams and competitions, but this was a bit different: the deadline was extended from the original April 26th. When I wrapped Gamedev.js Jam 2025 I could check how easy (or difficult) it was to participate, as the submission process was outside of Itch.

I wanted to properly start coding the shader in VS Code or Cursor, but decided to ask ChatGPT a few general questions about shaders first. Interestingly enough, after a few answers I ended up with a source code for an example shader, and decided to iterate on that.

After a few simple prompts I ended up with a simple, basic shader animating “flow” in the background, with the js13kGames logo wiggling in the front. I’ve updated the colors to reflect the js13kGames branding and that’s it!

It would take 5 minutes, but the remaining 55 was spent on trying to force ChatGPT into embedding the svg logo in a shader itself - after about ten failed attempts at fixing it I had to do a small research myself and apply the changes manually.

After all the output was a single index.html file, so it wasn’t that difficult. I zipped it and moved to the next steps:

Create a (JavaScript) shader
Create the Titan wallet
Get some $VSYS
Create a new collection
Mint your NFT
…
PROFIT

Follow the introductory blog post and step-by-step tutorial from the V Systems folks and you’ll easily make a submission yourself. You can even ignore forking their repo and doing all the Rust building as the zip with the html file containing the shader is good enough to be submitted to the Marketplace directly.

You do need a bit of $VSYS to create your collection in their Marketplace, which you’d get from V Systems folks, but if you don’t want to wait you can buy some through an exchange like MEXC. You only need a few cents to do that though, and then you’ll be able to mint NFTs freely.

That’s it - two hours of tinkering to have a chance at winning up to $1000 in four different categories with the total prize pool of $12000, so definitely worth checking out!

Enclave Games Monthly Report: April 2025

Wed, 07 May 2025 00:00:00 GMT

This will be a short Monthly Report as it’s still all about the ongoing Gamedev.js Jam 2025.

Games

Nope, not yet, but hopefully I’m onto something.

Writing

A first few days of April had the regular content being published, with Jam challenges leading to the start and theme announcement.

[01.04] Gamedev.js: Breakout 71 – classic with a twist
[02.04] Gamedev.js: Jam 2025: V Shaders challenge
[03.04] Gamedev.js: CSScape Room – no-JavaScript escape game
[04.04] Gamedev.js: Jam 2025: Phaser challenge
[06.04] Gamedev.js: Pico-PubSub – the smallest PubSub library
[07.04] Gamedev.js: Jam 2025: $Noods challenge
[08.04] Gamedev.js: 2025 Vibe Coding Game Jam
[09.04] Gamedev.js: Jam 2025: Open Source challenge
[10.04] Gamedev.js: NPC Friday #1: Vibe Coding intro
[11.04] Gamedev.js: All challenges in Gamedev.js Jam 2025: V Shaders, Open Source, Phaser, and $Noods
[13.04] Gamedev.js: Jam 2025 start and theme announcement!
[28.04] Gamedev.js: All the entries from Gamedev.js Jam 2025

Then I focused on the Jam entirely.

OP Guild

We’ve ended up with 22 entries submitted to the $NOODS challenge in Gamedev.js Jam 2025, which is pretty good.

Events

Announcing last Gamedev.js Jam 2025 partners, prizes, and experts before the start, and then the theme announcement. Later on filtering out spam, and assisting with submissions, all while being active on social media.

Open Source (122 games)
Build it with Phaser (68 games)
$NOODS (22 games)

We ended up with 420 entries this year! Check out #gamedevjs for the stream of cool web game updates shared by the community.

Other

I bought a drone, DJI Avata 2 to be exact, as I wanted an FPV one for half of my life actually - really happy with the first days of using it.

Plans for the next month

Announcing Gamedev.js Jam 2025 winners and hopefully vibe coding some entries into other game jams myself.

Enclave Games Monthly Report: March 2025

Fri, 25 Apr 2025 00:00:00 GMT

Focusing on preparations of the Gamedev.js Jam 2025 took its toll, and so the Monthly Report for March is out more than three weeks into April.

Games

Vibe coding with Cursor! I don’t have anything to show (yet), but I did play with Cursor’s capabilities a bit and I want to get back to coding SO MUCH.

Writing

I’ve completed my personal challenge of publishing a (short) news piece EVERY WORKING DAY throughout March on gamedevjs.com, so it ended up being 21 entries in total: 8 games, 4 tools, 4 events, 3 tutorials, 1 competition, and 1 video.

[03.03] Gamedev.js: Chipped – break rocks and find minerals
[04.03] Gamedev.js: JSNation 2025 discount code
[05.03] Gamedev.js: Asterogue – sci-fi space roguelike
[06.03] Gamedev.js: React Summit 2025 discount code
[07.03] Gamedev.js: SWGPU – simple WebGPU game engine
[10.03] Gamedev.js: Bubbits – bubble shooter battle royale
[11.03] Gamedev.js: Flow made in Blender
[12.03] Gamedev.js: Little Ski – LittleJS game tutorial
[13.03] Gamedev.js: Nanojet – micro WebGPU game engine
[14.03] Gamedev.js: Daily Dungeon – new maze every 24 hours
[17.03] Gamedev.js: Web Game Developers at GDC 2025
[18.03] Gamedev.js: The King’s Crowns – making of a WebXR game in 13 kilobytes
[19.03] Gamedev.js: Code Europe 2025 discount code
[20.03] Gamedev.js: Hammer Time – smash your enemies
[21.03] Gamedev.js: Publishing web games on Steam with Electron
[24.03] Gamedev.js: Fyrox – Rust based game engine
[25.03] Gamedev.js: Dragonsweeper – a minesweeper and RPG hybrid
[26.03] Gamedev.js: Nitrode – AI-assisted platform using Godot
[27.03] Gamedev.js: Space Intruders Alliance – sci-fi retrofuturistic top-down shooter
[28.03] Gamedev.js: Project Prismatic – WebGPU powered FPS
[31.03] Gamedev.js: PlayHack – game jam with Elympics on Arcadia

I’ve caught up with most of the topics from the past few months, but I don’t think I’ll be able to continue with the similar pace in April - even though the posts are short, it all takes time, and I’ll be busy with Gamedev.js Jam 2025 anyway.

OP Guild

Lots of cool things happening: $NOODS challenge in Gamedev.js Jam, vibe coding experiments, and the emergence of PotNoodleDev.

Events

Gamedev.js Jam 2025 preparations and announcements took most of March.

A new W3C Games Group is about to be created to work on the specification and implementation of the Loading and Control API.

Other

This blog, same as End3r’s Corner and TataDeveloper, are now running on a new engine, Astro. Gatsby got heavy, but the main issue was… the old laptop with the publishing setup died. Fortunately, Alkor helped and now everything’s back, and running as smooth as ever.

Plans for the next month

Finishing touches and announcements, and then actually running Gamedev.js Jam 2025, the sixth yearly edition of the jam already.

Enclave Games Monthly Report: February 2025

Fri, 07 Mar 2025 00:00:00 GMT

Preparations to Gamedev.js Jam 2025 started with good progress, we’ve shipped js13kGames 2024 t-shirts with all the gadgets, and I had my GitHub Star status renewed for another year, so it was a good month.

Games

Nope, nothing - ask me in April.

Writing

A lot of news items published in February on the Gamedev.js website. A total of 18: with 7 games, 5 tools, 3 competitions, and 3 events.

[04.02] Gamedev.js: Indie.fun Game Jam started
[05.02] Gamedev.js: PDFTris – play Tetris in a PDF
[06.02] Gamedev.js: Ludum Dare taking a break… or not?
[07.02] Gamedev.js: Excalibur version 0.30 was released
[10.02] Gamedev.js: NovaMundi: a unique take on strategy and survival
[11.02] Gamedev.js: GDevelop 5.5 with 3D physics released
[12.02] Gamedev.js: RetroSki – skill-based 2D retro skiing game
[13.02] Gamedev.js: Countdown to Gamedev.js Jam 2025 and call for partners
[17.02] Gamedev.js: Curvelicious – a local multiplayer snake game (João)
[18.02] Gamedev.js: J On The Beach 2025 – upcoming conference for data lovers
[19.02] Gamedev.js: Word Rummy – new game exploring Discord Activities
[20.02] Gamedev.js: Ray Browser built for gaming gets $6.5m investment
[21.02] Gamedev.js: The Supernatural Power Troll – from Gamedev.js Jam to Steam
[24.02] Gamedev.js: Phaser Launcher – free app to quickly create Phaser games
[25.02] Gamedev.js: jsday 2025 – lineup and more free tickets
[26.02] Gamedev.js: Colyseus 0.16 released
[27.02] Gamedev.js: React Paris 2025 discount code
[28.02] Gamedev.js: A Prison for Dreams – pixelart metroidvania platformer

Those are usually short news pieces, but it’s great to be able to share how much cool web gamedev stuff the community is releasing, and many of those end up in the Gamedev.js Weekly newsletter issues anyway.

OP Guild

The very first Gamedev.js Jam 2025 announcement was the partnership with OP Guild, which became the Platinum partner - expect the details about a dedicated challenge soon.

We're incredibly happy to have @OP_Guild as a Platinum Partner in #GamedevJS Jam 2025!https://t.co/f4JJg7HLNO #gamedev #indiedev #indiegames #gamejam #web3 #blockchain #AI @OPGames_ @arcadia_fun @ChaseFreo @Polats pic.twitter.com/ReXjONSa1F
— Gamedev.js (@Gamedevjs) February 19, 2025

I was also researching AI agents, as OP Games is preparing to release a cool project in the coming days that can benefit OP Guild folks.

Events

Preparations to Gamedev.js Jam 2025 - talking with partners, asking for prizes, discussing potential challenges. Lots of announcements already scheduled for the beginning of this month.

We’ve shipped the js13kGames 2024 t-shirts and gadgets, finally.

I gave a short talk about the Gamedev.js Survey 2024 results at the WebDX online meetup.

Other

I’m still part of the GitHub Stars program, and this is my fifth year.

Quite nice given it was suppose to move folks to alumni after the three-year period.

Plans for the next month

Continuing with the Gamedev.js Jam 2025 preparations and announcements.

Enclave Games Monthly Report: January 2025

Wed, 05 Feb 2025 00:00:00 GMT

Another yearly edition of the Gamedev.js Survey wrapped in December, and the report was published in January. Other than that it was rather a slow month, because of all the non-gamedev things that needed to be handled.

Games

Nothing, unfortunately. Maybe next time.

Writing

Not that much this month, but still a solid amount of (short) posts:

[02.01] Gamedev.js: Phaser Box2D – free 2D physics engine
[03.01] Gamedev.js: GitHub Copilot is now free in VS Code
[06.01] Gamedev.js: Survey 2024 concluded with a record number of submissions
[07.01] Enclave Games: Enclave Games in 2024, and plans for 2025
[10.01] Gamedev.js: Stimulation Clicker – sensory overload on another level
[16.01] Gamedev.js: LittleJS Game Jam challenges winners
[17.01] Gamedev.js: The Wildfires – fly firefighting airplanes
[20.01] Gamedev.js: Vue.js Nation 2025 conference and licenses giveaway
[21.01] Gamedev.js: Global Game Jam 2025 started
[22.01] Gamedev.js: DOOM: The Gallery Experience – paintings showcase simulator
[29.01] Gamedev.js: Report on the current state of Web Game Development in 2024 is out!

Two Survey updates, two tools, three games, two competitions, and one event. Plus, of course, our Yearly Report.

OP Guild

The LittleJS Game Jam challenge winners were announced. The challenges, coming from and judged by OP Guild, were: Cozy, Arcadia, and Endangered Species.

Some new deals, collabs, and game jams were confirmed and should be announced soon.

Events

I went to Katowice to be a judge at the Neuroshima Hex Polish Championship finals that happened during Portalcon, Portal Games’ own convention. It was quite an interesting experience, since it was also my very first attendance to Portalcon itself.

It went surprisingly well, and we had the luck of having the author of FAQ and Codex on the spot, the person who knows the Neuroshima Hex rules the best out of anyone in Poland.

Other

The Gamedev.js Weekly newsletter had its biggest delay since the very beginning in 2014 - recent issue was sent three days later, on Monday instead of Friday.

Gamedev.js Survey 2024 report was prepared and published.

I had my second surgery in the past two months and I’m recovering.

I passed my driving test recently, in the very first attempt (with the car number 13). Something I thought I’ll never do in my whole life, drive a car, is now “just” another skill I learned. We’re currently trying to get our own car, but everything that can go sideways goes sideways. It’s really frustrating to bump into issues on every single step of the process, but we’ll get there eventually.

Plans for the next month

It’s time to start the Gamedev.js Jam 2025 preparations.

Enclave Games in 2024, and plans for 2025

Tue, 07 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMT

The past year was even more difficult than the previous one, with struggles along the way, but had some good moments, positive surprizes and achievements as well. Let’s look at how 2024 went in detail, and what are the plans for Enclave Games in 2025.

This is the tenth Yearly Report already - make sure to check the previous ones if you want to learn more about our history: 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, and 2023.

Let’s start by reviewing the plans I had a year ago:

Build and release some games, hopefully with the help from Copilot. Nope, nothing at all.
Continue organizing Gamedev.js Jam. Yeah, the biggest edition yet.
Conduct Gamedev.js Survey earlier than in the last month. December, but it happened!
Send Gamedev.js Weekly newsletter regularly in 2024. Every. Single. Week.
Organize the 13th anniversary edition of the js13kGames competition. Did that, went well.
Release two planned eBooks. Didn’t even start writing.
Launch Web3 Gamedev School. Nope.
Explore decentralization further. Not how I wanted, but still did that a bit.

Now, a quick recap of 2024, month-by-month:

January: Gamedev.js Survey 2023 results, Phaser World newsletter
February: Badlucky t-shirt, WebDX community group
March: Enclave Games logos, NSHex Counter open sourced
April: Gamedev.js Jam 2024 with js13kGames challenge
May: burnout and shifting focus again, OP Guild start
June: Badlucky level in Flood Escape, new Gamedev.js Weekly website
July: js13kGames preparations, vacations on Mallorca
August: js13kGames start, new website
September: js13kGames deadline, Web Game Challenge, js13k on Arcadia
October: js13kGames winners
November: GitHub Universe, Survey ask for help
December: Gamedev.js Survey 2024

Let’s look at the past year in detail and see what happened to Enclave Games in 2024.

Bad things

No games at all, and no GitHub Copilot usage as well, even though I have access to it from being in the GitHub Stars program. I’m quite sad about missing both to be honest, but I do hope 2025 will be the year when it changes. I’ve been updating NSHex Counter web app and released it as Open Source on GitHub this year though.

Almost no sales in any of the online swag Shops: Enclave Games, Gamedev.js, js13kGames, and NeuroshimaHex.pl. I guess it won’t sell if I don’t put any effort into marketing it, but they were on the TODO list for far too long, and now are online, so let’s not stress about it too much.

I experienced burnout, or rather: realized I burned out years ago and was struggling with basic tasks. Luckily, it felt better after realizing this, going on vacations (first time since 2015), and then joining OP Games to lead OP Guild.

Ok things

No speaking gigs at all (beside talking about Gamedev.js Survey 2023 results at two online meetups), but I guess I can stop pretending and call it what it is: I’ve retired from giving talks at conferences. Quite frankly some time ago already, even though after pandemic I kind of tried doing more than online events alone - did two on-site talks in 2022 and that’s it.

The 13th edition of the js13kGames competition was celebrated with gadgets giveaway, new website (we’ve launched last year’s voting app as such - and yes, it’s the “legendary” new backend) with multi-step submit form, and old t-shirts promo. I didn’t manage to write and publish the “history of js13k” ebook though which was supose to be the core celebration gig.

I’ve attended GitHub Universe 2024 and enjoyed it so much, but as a GitHub Star member I didn’t utilise access to GitHub Copilot at all.

Gamedev.js Survey 2024 was conducted. It was suppose to happen around June, but ended up being December, though I guess it’s better to have it in December than don’t have it at all, right?

Good things

I was asked by Rich Davey to help reactivate the Phaser World newsletter, and was preparing the contents most of the year, from the beginning of January till the end of August. It then switched the platform from MadMimi to Hashnode and Rich started writing those himself.

Gamedev.js Jam 2024 was a success, with 2790 devs joined on Itch, 238 games submitted, and 6050 ratings cast. We even had the very first js13kGames challenge, which ended up having… 13 entries! All of those folks got a cool Badlucky t-shirt as a prize.

I’ve joined OP Games folks (awesome bunch, Paul Gadi and Chase Freo are doing an incredible job for indie game developers!), started leading the newly formed OP Guild, and kind of also helping with developer relations tasks for Arcadia. This is the “explore decentralization further” part I enjoyed this year.

Gamedev.js Weekly newsletter, beside being sent every single week, finally got a new email template and a brand new website right after.

Our whole family went on the very first vacations in almost a decade. Not the proudest fact, but I’m glad we finally did it, and we’re already planning to spend this year’s summer on Mallorca again.

New js13kGames backend, the legendary tabu topic discussed since 2015, happened thanks to Alkor - we’ve launched the voting app as the new website! There’s a whole lot of things missing and need to be completed to call it done, but it’s a good start! I’m so happy Alkor is back.

Plans for 2025

BACK TO MAKING GAMES! If I don’t build and release a single game in 2025 I’ll quit calling Enclave Games an Indie Game Development Studio and start calling it Event Organizing Company instead.

Usual stuff with Gamedev.js Jam 2025, Gamedev.js Survey 2025, Gamedev.js Weekly issues, and js13kGames 2025.

More involvement in OP Guild, exploring all the possibilities with Arcadia and OP Games.

Check out Telegram, Discord, LinkedIn, and other platforms accepting web games, and try to submit my own (hopefully brand new).

Write the js13kGames history ebook.