Path to Glory — post mortem (JS13K 2023)
<p><a href="https://js13kgames.com/" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank"><strong>JS13K 2023</strong></a> 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’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 <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>
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<p>After being judged by all the other participants, my game <a href="https://js13kgames.com/entries/path-to-glory" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank"><strong>Path to Glory</strong></a> ranked <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, <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 <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>