Top games from given criteria

Andrzej Mazur
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3 min readOct 14, 2020

Since the overall score by which the winners were announced was based on a summary of various criteria, we were able to extract those results and present you with the top 10 lists for each one separetely.

Those were: Innovation, Fun, Theme, Gameplay, Graphics, Audio, and Controls. Check the lists below, and note that numbers in brackets are overall places of given entries, and the lists does not contain WebXR games:

Top10 in Innovation:

1. NoteCraft (#20) by KilledByAPixel
2. Track not found?! (#4) by xem
3. Lost Vision (#54) by Ruud Schroën
4. FOURFOLD (#7) by Saud
5. Johnny Smiter III (#12) by Paul Brunt
6. You have found (#14) by Mark Knol
7. Magik - 404 (#59) by Andrew Higson-Smith
8. Edge Not Found (#2) by Tom Hermans
9. OS13k (#32) by KilledByAPixel
10. Stolen Sword (#5) by Ian Chiao

Top10 in Fun:

1. Ninja vs EVILCORP (#1) by Rémi Vansteelandt
2. Big Champ (#21) by Bryan Perfetto
3. The Last Spartan (#6) by Michael Ferron
4. Edge Not Found (#2) by Tom Hermans
5. Stolen Sword (#5) by Ian Chiao
6. And then it was gone (#30) by Sebastian Dorn
7. FOURFOLD (#7) by Saud
8. I want to google the game (#8) by Mark Vasilkov
9. WIZARD WITH A SHOTGUN (#16) by Elliot Nelson
10. Heaven Ascent (#28) by Katherine Stark

Top10 in Theme:

1. Highway 404 (#9) by Jerome Lecomte
2. robots.txt (#66) by Thiago
3. FileNotFound (#178) by Konrad Linkowski
4. Ninja vs EVILCORP (#1) by Rémi Vansteelandt
5. 404 (#140) by Francesco Bedussi
6. Request & Response (#150) by Erwin Andrés
7. 404: Search For The Missing Pages (#198) by RZED786
8. Browser 404 (#131) by Craiky
9. fyranollfyra (#37) by Niklas Berg
10. Sojuz 404 (#18) by Markus Fisch

Top10 in Gameplay:

1. Ninja vs EVILCORP (#1) by Rémi Vansteelandt
2. Edge Not Found (#2) by Tom Hermans
3. The Last Spartan (#6) by Michael Ferron
4. And then it was gone (#30) by Sebastian Dorn
5. Searching for 04 (#11) by Nicklas Löf / Snukey
6. Stolen Sword (#5) by Ian Chiao
7. WIZARD WITH A SHOTGUN (#16) by Elliot Nelson
8. Johnny Smiter III (#12) by Paul Brunt
9. FOURFOLD (#7) by Saud
10. Connection (#17) by Federico Tibaldo

Top10 in Graphics:

1. Island Not Found (#13) by Ben & Salvatore
2. Raid Area 404 (#36) by madmaw
3. Flour Oh! Flour (#153) by platane
4. La Once (#58) by Felipe Alfonso
5. Ninja vs EVILCORP (#1) by Rémi Vansteelandt
6. CHOCH (#3) by kostik1337 & lampysprites
7. MINIPUNK (#10) by Cody Ebberson
8. Yet Another Space Shooter (#45) by Nicholas Carlini
9. Stolen Sword (#5) by Ian Chiao
10. Puppy (#47) by Brian Hambley

Top10 in Audio:

1. NoteCraft (#20) by KilledByAPixel
2. 404 Rhythm not found (#50) by agar3s+mapedorr+quietgecko+slashie
3. Music Memory (#84) by jsdisco
4. CHOCH (#3) by kostik1337 & lampysprites
5. The Legend of Yeti-404 (#22) by Richard Munn
6. MINIPUNK (#10) by Cody Ebberson
7. Symmetry Not Found (#19) by sirxemic
8. Heaven Ascent (#28) by Katherine Stark
9. 404th floor (#46) by GregPeck
10. Four, oh Four… (#65) by Mark Racette

Top10 in Controls:

1. Ninja vs EVILCORP (#1) by Rémi Vansteelandt
2. Edge Not Found (#2) by Tom Hermans
3. The Last Spartan (#6) by Michael Ferron
4. I want to google the game (#8) by Mark Vasilkov
5. Searching for 04 (#11) by Nicklas Löf / Snukey
6. Highway 404 (#9) by Jerome Lecomte
7. CHOCH (#3) by kostik1337 & lampysprites
8. Barry The Bird (#38) by Marco Fernandes
9. FOURFOLD (#7) by Saud
10. Connection (#17) by Federico Tibaldo

It’s great to see many games outside of top50, or even top100 overall, which did very well in a specific criterion - we wanted to highlight them, to give them extra exposure, that’s why this ranking was created.

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Andrzej Mazur
Andrzej Mazur

Written by Andrzej Mazur

HTML5 Game Developer, Enclave Games indie studio founder, js13kGames competition creator and Gamedev.js Weekly newsletter publisher.

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