Howell Duggan of GamersFTW writes: "The world’s biggest game jam, Global Game Jam is an annual event where people gather across multiple sites across the world, to create a game in 48 hours. People typically join small teams, in order to get artists, programmers, writers, and musicians to collaborate together to create a game. To enforce the 48 hour deadline, there is a theme that must be incorporated, which is only announced at the beginning of the jam.
So, last week, on a Friday afternoon, I ventured to Cardiff, joining their site as part of the jam..."
"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).
What an incredible experience. Tempted to give it a go myself one day. Really loving the NPC concept though, its a shame you couldn't get through more of it!
Love the wild creativity that comes out of Global Game Jams. Not sure I could keep inputting dialogue at 4am though...
Took part in this last weekend in Orlando. This was the first GGJ I meaningfully took part in. We actually didn't do too bad. Our game took on two challenges: make it CECO compatible (a game that could be played by kids with Cerebral Palsy) and do the Microsoft Azure challenge (incorporate Azure into the game). We won the Azure challenge and six $100 gift cards.
Our game was a prototype of a tower defense game called Bedtime Stories, where you use various toys, etc to protect yourself from monsters that attack you at night while you sleep.
We're actually gonna present it to the kids at a CECO convention in March (in a more complete state, of course).