Path to Glory — post mortem (JS13K 2023)

<p><a href="https://js13kgames.com/" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank"><strong>JS13K 2023</strong></a>&nbsp;is (sadly) over. 163 participants around the world spent a month creating amazing web games that could fit in a 13kb zip file. The competition has been run every year since 2012, and I&rsquo;ve been participating since 2013. It is my yearly excuse to write unmaintainable and unscalable code, which is a nice change from my daytime job.</p> <p>The theme for the competition was&nbsp;<a href="https://medium.com/js13kgames/js13kgames-2023-has-started-b4a25886d082" rel="noopener">13th century</a>, hence we saw tons of knights, kings, and armies.</p> <p><img alt="" src="https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:700/1*dxoi7gd8LzbdOm9ak4vkzA.png" style="height:438px; width:700px" /></p> <p>After being judged by all the other participants, my game&nbsp;<a href="https://js13kgames.com/entries/path-to-glory" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank"><strong>Path to Glory</strong></a>&nbsp;ranked&nbsp;<a href="https://medium.com/js13kgames/js13kgames-2023-winners-announced-d4e87593be5d" rel="noopener">first in both mobile and desktop categories</a>. In this article I would like to detail some of the ideas, challenges, and tricks that went into making this entry.</p> <p>For the full details of the implementation,&nbsp;<a href="https://github.com/remvst/knight" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank">the source code is available on Github</a>.</p> <p>For a more condensed version, I also documented my progress day after day on&nbsp;<a href="https://twitter.com/remvst/status/1690956711463411712" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank">this Twitter thread</a>.</p> <p><img alt="" src="https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:700/1*WbHEvI7wf4RIRkXs-Y5uaw.png" style="height:437px; width:700px" /></p> <p>Unused logos</p> <h1>Concept</h1> <p>JS13K starts when the theme is revealed. I usually spend a day trying to come up with ideas, picture what my game could be, whether it is achievable within the constraints, and whether it is something I can pull off.</p> <p><a href="https://remvst.medium.com/path-to-glory-post-mortem-js13k-2023-be74a5272621"><strong>Website</strong></a></p>
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