The Global Game Jam® (GGJ) is the world's largest game jam event (game creation) taking place around the world at physical locations. Think of it as a hackathon focused on game development. It is the growth of an idea that in today’s heavily connected world, we could come together, be creative, share experiences and express ourselves in a multitude of ways using video games – it is very universal. The weekend stirs a global creative buzz in games, while at the same time exploring the process of development, be it programming, iterative design, narrative exploration or artistic expression. It is all condensed into a 48 hour development cycle. The GGJ encourages people with all kinds of backgrounds to participate and contribute to this global spread of game development and creativity.
The structure of a jam is usually that everyone gathers on Friday late afternoon, watches a short video keynote with advice from leading game developers, and then a secret theme is announced. All sites worldwide are then challenged to make games based on that same theme, with games to be completed by Sunday afternoon. In January 2016, we had over 600 locations in 93 countries create 6866 games in one weekend! GGJ 2017 is January 20-22 at a location near you… if not you can make one of your own. The jam is known for helping foster new friendships, increase confidence and opportunities within the community. The jam is always an intellectual challenge. People are invited to explore new technology tools, trying on new roles in development and testing their skills to do something that requires them to design, develop create, test and make a new game in the time span of 48 hours.
The GGJ stimulates collaboration and is not a competition.
GGJ Team
GGJ is run by a small international team of volunteers banded together in the "Executive Committee" (EC) of Global Game Jam, Inc. The GGJ16 team was led by Executive Producer Giselle Rosman.
The Executive Committee for GGJ17:
Bruno Campagnolo de Paula
Bill Crosbie
Rebecca Fernandez
Bryan McDonald
Giselle Rosman (Executive Producer)
Jo Summers
The EC is supported by a range of regional organisers who take a region under their belt to give support to local organisers with regard to their local GGJ site.
Global Game Jam, Inc.
GGJ is operated by the Global Game Jam, Inc., an international non-profit corporation based in San Luis Obispo, California, with a mission to foster game design and game education through innovative events.
Global Game Jam® Board of Directors:
Justin Berenbaum
Susan Gold
Lindsay Grace (VP / Secretary)
Foaad Khosmood (Treasurer)
Gorm Lai (President)
The GGJ depends on the generous work and support of many other people including sponsors, jam site organizers, and volunteers.
The structure of a jam is usually that everyone gathers on Friday late afternoon, watches a short video keynote with advice from leading game developers, and then a secret theme is announced. All sites worldwide are then challenged to make games based on that same theme, with games to be completed by Sunday afternoon. In January 2016, we had over 600 locations in 93 countries create 6866 games in one weekend! GGJ 2017 is January 20-22 at a location near you… if not you can make one of your own. The jam is known for helping foster new friendships, increase confidence and opportunities within the community. The jam is always an intellectual challenge. People are invited to explore new technology tools, trying on new roles in development and testing their skills to do something that requires them to design, develop create, test and make a new game in the time span of 48 hours.
The GGJ stimulates collaboration and is not a competition.
GGJ Team
GGJ is run by a small international team of volunteers banded together in the "Executive Committee" (EC) of Global Game Jam, Inc. The GGJ16 team was led by Executive Producer Giselle Rosman.
The Executive Committee for GGJ17:
Bruno Campagnolo de Paula
Bill Crosbie
Rebecca Fernandez
Bryan McDonald
Giselle Rosman (Executive Producer)
Jo Summers
The EC is supported by a range of regional organisers who take a region under their belt to give support to local organisers with regard to their local GGJ site.
Global Game Jam, Inc.
GGJ is operated by the Global Game Jam, Inc., an international non-profit corporation based in San Luis Obispo, California, with a mission to foster game design and game education through innovative events.
Global Game Jam® Board of Directors:
Justin Berenbaum
Susan Gold
Lindsay Grace (VP / Secretary)
Foaad Khosmood (Treasurer)
Gorm Lai (President)
The GGJ depends on the generous work and support of many other people including sponsors, jam site organizers, and volunteers.
Have you been planning to register a jam site for Global Game Jam ® 2017 but haven’t quite gotten into gear yet? Well, it’s time to get moving: registrations for sites close at the end of this week. Head on over to our online form and get your site registered ASAP!
Over 500 sites have already registered with us, hailing from 84 countries across every populated continent on earth. (No news on a site in Antarctica as yet, but you never know!)
GGJ17 will kick off in New Zealand on the evening of Friday January 20, 2017 and will wrap up in Hawaii on Sunday January 22, meaning that our 48 hour jam will actually run for about 70 hours in total.
We would love your local region to be part of this truly global event, so please get your jam site registered as soon as you can.
If you’re not a site organiser but simply want to turn up and jam, you can find a list of jam sites near you on the GGJ website. Every site has different deadlines, and some are already full, so make sure you find the best site for you as early as you can and let them know you want to jam with them.
Over 500 sites have already registered with us, hailing from 84 countries across every populated continent on earth. (No news on a site in Antarctica as yet, but you never know!)
GGJ17 will kick off in New Zealand on the evening of Friday January 20, 2017 and will wrap up in Hawaii on Sunday January 22, meaning that our 48 hour jam will actually run for about 70 hours in total.
We would love your local region to be part of this truly global event, so please get your jam site registered as soon as you can.
If you’re not a site organiser but simply want to turn up and jam, you can find a list of jam sites near you on the GGJ website. Every site has different deadlines, and some are already full, so make sure you find the best site for you as early as you can and let them know you want to jam with them.
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We are pleased to introduce the most excellent volunteers who will help manage Global Game Jam® in 2017. Thank you to all the wonderful Regional Organizers (RO’s) for taking the time to make GGJ great!
RO’s are the first point of contact for Site Organizers. If you’re thinking of running a site for GGJ17, please reach out to your RO and they can help get you set up!
Africa:
Sub-saharan Africa: Sithé Ncube (Zambia)
North Africa: Yasmin Diab (Egypt)
Asia:
Japan: Kosuke Kaneko
China: Wen Chen
Indonesia: Friya Dwi
Korea: Sun Park
Taiwan: Johnson Lin
India: Senthil Kumar
Rest of Asia: Johnson Lin (Taiwan)
Europe:
Finland: Annakaisa Kultima
France: William David
Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Lichtenstein: Martin Nerurkar (Germany)
Italy, Belgium, Spain and Portugal: Ciro Continisio (Italy)
Netherlands: Rebecca Fernandez
UK and Ireland: Eoin Carroll (Ireland)
Scandinavia: Malena Klaus and Stefan Svellingen
Russia, Belarus, Ukraine, Poland, Slovenia, Czech Republic, Lithuania, Estonia: Robert Podgorski (Poland)
Balkans and Greece: George Kazamias (Greece)
Turkey: Elif Karaata
Europe Coordinator: Eoin Carroll
Middle East:
Arab countries: Yasmin Diab (Egypt)
Iran: Hamzeh Azad
Israel: Yval Sapir
North America:
Canada: Anna Prein
Mexico: Arcelia Ceballos
USA Coordinator: Sabrina Culyba
Mountains US: Sam Kern
Southeast US: Tristin Hightower
Mid-Atlantic US: Andzej Zarzycki
Central US: Tony Morelli
Oceania:
Australia and New Zealand: Giselle Rosman (Australia)
South America:
Brazil: Francisco Narto Junior (North and Northeast) and Bruno Campagnolo de Paula (rest of Brazil)
Rest of Latin America and The Caribbean: Hernán Valdés (Chile)
Please remember when awaiting your site approval that all our RO's are volunteers, so your patience is appreciated. They are an excellent bunch and will get to you!
RO’s are the first point of contact for Site Organizers. If you’re thinking of running a site for GGJ17, please reach out to your RO and they can help get you set up!
Africa:
Sub-saharan Africa: Sithé Ncube (Zambia)
North Africa: Yasmin Diab (Egypt)
Asia:
Japan: Kosuke Kaneko
China: Wen Chen
Indonesia: Friya Dwi
Korea: Sun Park
Taiwan: Johnson Lin
India: Senthil Kumar
Rest of Asia: Johnson Lin (Taiwan)
Europe:
Finland: Annakaisa Kultima
France: William David
Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Lichtenstein: Martin Nerurkar (Germany)
Italy, Belgium, Spain and Portugal: Ciro Continisio (Italy)
Netherlands: Rebecca Fernandez
UK and Ireland: Eoin Carroll (Ireland)
Scandinavia: Malena Klaus and Stefan Svellingen
Russia, Belarus, Ukraine, Poland, Slovenia, Czech Republic, Lithuania, Estonia: Robert Podgorski (Poland)
Balkans and Greece: George Kazamias (Greece)
Turkey: Elif Karaata
Europe Coordinator: Eoin Carroll
Middle East:
Arab countries: Yasmin Diab (Egypt)
Iran: Hamzeh Azad
Israel: Yval Sapir
North America:
Canada: Anna Prein
Mexico: Arcelia Ceballos
USA Coordinator: Sabrina Culyba
Mountains US: Sam Kern
Southeast US: Tristin Hightower
Mid-Atlantic US: Andzej Zarzycki
Central US: Tony Morelli
Oceania:
Australia and New Zealand: Giselle Rosman (Australia)
South America:
Brazil: Francisco Narto Junior (North and Northeast) and Bruno Campagnolo de Paula (rest of Brazil)
Rest of Latin America and The Caribbean: Hernán Valdés (Chile)
Please remember when awaiting your site approval that all our RO's are volunteers, so your patience is appreciated. They are an excellent bunch and will get to you!