oprainfall's Charlotte Buckingham writes:
"The Global Game Jam is an annual event that sees game developers across the globe lock themselves up for 48 hours to work on a game. They’ve been going on since 2009, and arrived in my local city in 2011. Over 150 developers gathered in Melbourne to make games this year, joining their fellows in over 480 locations worldwide.
At the start of the event on the 24th of January, the developers split off into teams and started brainstorming ideas. They then set to work over the next two days to bring their ideas to life. At 3 PM on the 26th, everyone was told to stop jamming and upload all of their games to the official Global Game Jam website, so people could download and then play them. There were a total of 4200 games made worldwide.
Each year, the developers are given a theme, with the one this year being “We don’t see things as they are, we see them as we are.”"
"GGJ (Global Game Jam, the world’s largest game creation event) are today very happy and excited to announce that the Global Game Jam 2023 event kicks-off on January 30th, 2023." - Global Game Jam.
"Global Game Jam (GGJ) has today announced that the GGJ 2021 event will be a completely digital event in January 2021, and that site registrations are now open as of today." - Jonas Ek, TGG.
Global Game Jam has just announced that the site registrations for Global Game Jam 2020 is closing on January 12th (Game Jam 2020 kicks-off on January 31st, 2020).