The winners of the Vibe Jam 2026 sponsored by @cursor_ai + @boltdotnew + @heyglif + @tripoai are....
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π₯ 1st PLACE β $25,000 A Game About Capybaras Delivering Food by @leocooout
π₯ 2nd PLACE β $10,000 Fanto's Mega-Mart by @e_c_t_o
π₯ 3rd PLACE β $5,000 WenWare by @underpaid_mom
Very special awards are presented for:
πΏ @cursor_ai's MOST ORIGINAL HALDANE-4 by @denisbondare
πΏ @cursor_ai's BEST ART DIRECTION Null Range by @taylor_sntx
πΏ @boltdotnew's MOST PLAYED WenWare by @underpaid_mom
πΏ @heyglif's MOST ZEN Kanso by @mrsukeruton
πΏ MOST UNHINGED Swingers by @_offmylawn
πΏ MOST PORTAL TRANSFERS FULL SEND by @dvassallo
πΏ FUNNIEST GAME KΓTTBULLAR METAL by @MichalPastier
πΏ MOST POLISHED Tiny Skies by @dannylimanseta
πΏ UNIQUE CONCEPT Undersphere by @_NoahWhiteson
πΏ MOST ATMOSPHERIC Eyrie by @slowchaz
πΏ RAGE-QUIT AWARD BeetleJump by @assentorp
πΏ MOST CURSED Almost Surgery by @RagimMusakaev
Congrats everyone! And also everyone who participated, thank you!
And thanks to all the judges for helping get through all the games @NicolaManzini @OverJumpRally @ericzakariasson @timsoret
And lots of thanks to @s13k_ for helping out so much with the logistics of the Vibe Jam again, like creating the website and the entire judging system and so much more! Amazing work!
And thanks to all our amazing sponsors who made it possible
The vibe coded games this year are much much better than last year, all the judges agree on that, and personally I feel they're getting close to production-ready games that could compete with real game studios:
@timsoret, a game dev himself, said: "The quality is much higher level than last year, wow. Some of them are getting close to be genuine games. I think next year (or maybe 6 months at the given rate), it will match many game devs. Not the top 20%, but a 3rd year student yes!"
THANK YOU AND SEE YOU NEXT YEAR πβ€οΈ
P.S. you can play ALL the games on https://vibej.am
#vibejam
π Round 1 of judging the Vibe Jam of 2026 sponsored @cursor_ai + @boltdotnew + @heyglif + @tripoai is finished now
We've gone through almost 1000 submissions now, and there's some really great games in there and a huge leap vs last year's #vibejam
We're now onto Round 2 where me and @s13k_ start rating games a score of 1 to 10, I think we can finish that this week
Then in Round 3 the other judges enter to rate the final 50-100 games and we will know the winners!
I'm a bit slow but that's what happens with so many submissions, and I want to give games a proper chance, not just skip through!
P.S. @s13k_ built a great judging system for us to use, most games work fine in an iframe and if not we open it in a new tab to rate, which you can see here
