Yandex.Games Jam
November 1st 2021 to December 15th 2021

The Defold Foundation and Yandex.Games is hereby inviting Defold developers across the world to join a month long game jam. Developers will be challenged to create a themed web game showing their creative and developer skills as well as a good integration with the Yandex.Games SDK. The proud winner and runner-ups will receive marketing and advertisement for their submitted game, hardware, swag and bragging rights!

Yandex.Games

Yandex.Games is a catalog of browser-based online games that can be played on smartphones or desktop devices and require no installation. Yandex.Games is the home of several succesful games made with Defold. Here's a selection of games:

Word Search: Connect Letters

By OpenMyGame

Look Your Loot

By Dragosha

Theme: Target

The theme for this game jam is "Target". You must incorporate some aspect of the theme into your game, and it will be part of the judging criteria for the "Defold's Choice" category (see below). Remember that the word target can mean much more than the literal target of an arrow or a gun. It could just as well be a target number or score or some other goal or objective you need to achieve to complete a level.

Rules

You must create an original game for the game jam and you must develop it during the game jam.
You must incorporate some aspect of the theme in the game.
You must use the Defold game engine when you create your game.

You are allowed to use existing tools, frameworks and libraries when creating the game.
You are allowed to use free or paid graphics, sounds and music that you already own.
You must integrate and use the Yandex.Games SDK in the game.
You can create the game on your own or as part of a team.

Winners

People's Choice

The games were ranked based on the average star rating given by the players.

1st place - Connect to Target
2nd place - One More Tank
3rd place - Foggy Fox
4th place - Merge Nums
5th place - Racing 3D
6th place - Knife Attack
7th place - Crazy Maze Game
8th place - NonStop Splash Targets
9th place - Lazy Santa
10th place - Operation Yolka

1st place - Bragging rights, €100 Steam Gift Card and Defold merchandise
2nd place - Bragging rights, €75 Steam Gift Card and Defold merchandise
3rd place - Bragging rights, €50 Steam Gift Card and Defold merchandise
4th-10th place - Bragging rights, €20 Steam Gift Card and Defold merchandise

Yandex' Choice

Yandex ranked the games based on how well the games perform on the Yandex platform.

1st place - Knife Attack
2nd place - Operation Yolka
3rd place - Foggy Fox
4th place - Home appliance. Insurrection.
5th place - Sea Battle Universe
6th place - Racing 3D
7th place - Cube Wars
8th place - Drunken thief
9th place - NonStop Splash Targets
10th place - Merge Nums

1st place - iPhone 12 128 GB, Featuring and advertising of your game, worth $1500
2nd place - iPhone 12 128 GB, Featuring and advertising of your game, worth $1000
3rd place - iPhone 12 128 GB, Featuring and advertising of your game, worth $500
4th-10th place - Featuring and advertising of your game, worth $200

The games will be advertised in Yandex advertisinig channels.

Defold's Choice

The Defold Foundation ranked the games based on technical excellence and theme usage.

1st place - Sea Battle Universe
2nd place - Foggy Fox
3rd place - Pathfinder
4th place - Knife Attack
5th place - Operation Yolka
6th place - Connect to Target
7th place - Gumobalka
8th place - NonStop Splash Targets
9th place - Мастер борща
10th place - Merge Nums

1st place - PlayStation, Xbox or Nintendo Switch console, Assortment of game keys, 4 hours of one-on-one Defold support
2nd place - PlayStation, Xbox or Nintendo Switch console, Assortment of game keys, 3 hours of one-on-one Defold support
3rd place - PlayStation, Xbox or Nintendo Switch console, Assortment of game keys, 2 hours of one-on-one Defold support
4th-10th place - Assortment of game keys, 1 hour of one-on-one Defold support

One-on-one Defold support - Dedicated time from the Defold team to use for anything related to Defold development.

Examples: Code review of your game. Advice and guidance on how to use Defold. Advice and guidance on how to implement a certain feature in your game.

Disclaimer: The choice of consoles is depending on availability in the location of the winner and at the discretion of the Defold Foundation.

Submitted games

The following games have been submitted to the game jam (updated 2021-12-17):

Connect to Target by vbif
Crazy Maze Game by Layday Games
Darts Loop by undrev
Foggy Fox by Dragosha
Gumobalka by Dream Hunters
Home appliance. Insurrection by d954mas
Кубические войны by Sublustris
Knife Attack by korgames
Lazy Santa by medoborodyj
Мастер борща by Alexander Bulatov
Merge Nums by ANV.Games
NonStop Splash Targets by BigButton Co
One More Tank by Nazarii Sheremet
Operation Yolka by enotofil
Pathfinder by OneSevenOne
Racing 3D by Spiral Code Studios
Sea Battle Universe by Insality Games
Space Fighter: Start by korsarer
Stounes by Studio OIL
Пиксельные соты: Кальмар by FireMilk

For an up-to-date list visit the game jam page at Yandex.Games.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do I get started with Defold?

Head over to the Learn section of the Defold website. There you will find plenty of tutorials, manuals and examples to get you started.

How many games can I submit?

As many as you want! But we recommend that you focus on quality over quantity!

Is this game jam restricted to Defold developers?

Yes, the game has to be created using Defold.

How do I integrate the Yandex.Games SDK?

A great place to start is to read the Releasing games on Yandex blog post. You can also follow the integration documentation in Yandex.Games SDK for Defold project.

How do you judge technical excellence?

We will look at a number of different things: How well the Yandex.Games SDK is integrated? Does the game show ads when it is supposed to? Does the game behave well in the web browser? Are sounds paused when an ad is shown or the user switches browser tab? Does the game play well on both desktop and mobile? Is the game bug free?