Decentralized category winners in js13kGames 2024!

This year the Decentralized category had four different, unique challenges: OP Guild, Avalanche, Thirdweb, and Arcadia - let’s see their results.

Those optional challenges had different requirements: from having NPCs in your entry, interacting with the Avalanche blockchain, through using Thirdweb tooling, to uploading your game to Arcadia - 19 entries out of 187 total participated in those.

Each challenge had a total prize pool of 1300 USDC:

1. 500 USDC
2. 300 USDC
3. 200 USDC
4. 100 USDC
5. 50 USDC
6. 30 USDC
7. 30 USDC
8. 30 USDC
9. 30 USDC
10. 30 USDC

Here are all the results:

OP Guild

The challenge of adding Non Player Characters received fifteen submissions, and the winners were arranged by Paul Gadi and Chase Freo:

1. O HIII BAD SKATEPARK by Xem
2. Shoot 13 Nomsters by Mark Vasilkov
3. The Anti-Poker Protocol by Alex Delderfield
4. King Thirteen by Mark Vasilkov
5. DR1V3N WILD by Frank Force
6. Brewing Disaster by Adrien Guéret
7. Laundry In Debt by Fazle Adyuta U. and Zac Sawyer
8. Data Warrior: 13kb limit by Alexey Kalmakov
9. Gecko Blaster by Eoin McGrath
10. Xiicur Surviivors by Mohammed Saud

Avalanche

A total of six entries interacted with the Avalanche blockchain, or at least added a reference to it, and here’s their ranking made by Andrew Cooper:

1. Not 13 by Martin Tale
2. Bubble Burst by John Edvard
3. Emojiphobia by Xem
4. DR1V3N WILD by Frank Force
5. The Anti-Poker Protocol by Alex Delderfield
6. Laundry In Debt by Fazle Adyuta U. and Zac Sawyer

Thirdweb

Seven games took on the Thirdweb challenge of using their TypeScript SDK, and Juan Rivera Perez (JRP) ranked them like this:

1. Bubble Burst by John Edvard
2. Spell Spells by Curtis Robinson
3. Brewing Disaster by Adrien Guéret
4. The Anti-Poker Protocol by Alex Delderfield
5. Not 13 by Martin Tale
6. Emojiphobia by Xem
7. Laundry In Debt by Fazle Adyuta U. and Zac Sawyer

Arcadia

Seventeen entries landed on the Arcadia platform, and here are the best ten selected by Paul Gadi and Chase Freo:

1. Spell Spells by Curtis Robinson
2. DR1V3N WILD by Frank Force
3. Gecko Blaster by Eoin McGrath
4. Brewing Disaster by Adrien Guéret
5. Bubble Burst by John Edvard
6. The Anti-Poker Protocol by Alex Delderfield
7. Data Warrior: 13kb limit by Alexey Kalmakov
8. Dimension 13 by Retro-pigeon
9. King Thirteen by Mark Vasilkov
10. Xiicur Surviivors by Mohammed Saud

Thank you all for participating and spending your time on implementing those optional challenges! I do hope you enjoyed it - the funds will be wired in the coming days, look out for emails asking for your wallet addresses.