Thursday Dec. 19, 2024'
Description:
The Indie Game Awards is an annual awards-only event designed to honor excellence in indie gaming, featuring categories that highlight innovation, storytelling, artistry, and more. The nomination and award selection process is carefully curated by a diverse jury of judges, including media professionals, influencers, and industry experts who share a passion for INDIES.
Mon Jan. 20, - Sun Jan. 26 2024'
The Global Game Jam (GGJ) is an annual distributed game jam. Inspired by the Nordic Game Jam, and created by Susan Gold, Ian Schreiber, Gorm Lai and Foaad Khosmood, originally developed under the International Game Developers Association Education SIG to bring together the elements of creativity, collaboration and experimentation.
Wed. Jan. 23, - Sun. Jan, 26
Short for "Music And Gaming Festival," MAGFest is a four day-long event dedicated to the appreciation of video game music, gaming of all types, and the gaming community. The event runs 24 hours a day, and offers consoles, arcades, tabletop, LAN, live video game cover bands, chiptunes, vendors, guest speakers, and much much more.
Tuesday January 21, 2024'
Get ready for an unforgettable night of gaming celebration! The 14th Annual New York Game Awards returns January 21st at 8 PM at SVA Theatre, and you’re invited to join the excitement. Hosted by former Nintendo of America President Reggie Fils-Aimé and the New York Videogame Critics Circle, this prestigious event honors the very best in video games and gaming journalism.
// UPCOMING GAMING EVENTS
Dec. 19 - The Indie Game Awards
Jan. 20/26 - Global Game Jam 2025'
Jan. 21 - The New York Game Awards
Jan. 23/26 - Super MAGFest 2025'
Feb. 11/23 - D.I.C.E. 2025' Summit
Feb. 19/21 - Devcom Leadership Summit
Feb. 24 / Mar. 3 - Steam Next Fest
Mar. 17/21 - GDC 2025'
Mar. 28 - WonderCon 25'
A 'Game Jam' is a event held online &/or in person where participants are challenged with creating a video game from scratch based around a selected theme....
Depending on the rules & format of the event, participants may have the option to work independently, or within a team & are giving anywhere from a few hours to a few weeks to complete/publish their game & have it submitted. While a majority of Game Jams are run as game making exercise's for indie developers, many are promoted as contests that offer rewards & prizes to the winners.
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WHAT IS A GAME JAM?
Jan. 17th - Jan. 31st
Nov. 8th - Nov. 25th
November 1st, 2024' - December 1st, 2024'
Game Off is GitHub's annual game jam challenging individuals and teams to build a game during the month of November. Use whatever programming languages, game engines, or libraries you like. The use of AI tools to help generate code, assets, or anything in between is also welcome.
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Create a game based on the theme (announced on November 1st and 13:37 PDT).
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Sign up for a free GitHub account if you don't already have one. It's free!
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Join the Game Off on itch.io. If you don’t already have an itch.io account, you can sign in with your GitHub account.
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Create a new public GitHub repository to store the source code and any assets you’re able to share for your entry and push your changes before December 1 13:37 PT.
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Submit your game through itch.io.
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Voting will open shortly after the jam ends and is open to everyone who’s submitted a game. Entries will be rated on the following categories: Overall, Gameplay, Graphics, Audio, Innovation and Theme Interpretation. Voting will end on January 8th, 2025 at 13:37 PT.
December 31st, 2024' - January 13th, 2025'
Game Dev Knock Out (GDKO) is an elimination tournament for game developers of all skillsets. It's played out over 5 rounds between January and May with the game developers with the lowest scores being eliminated each round until only 5 developers remain to take part in the final of the competition. Think of it as the Squid Games of the game dev world with a less valuable prize and nobody dies.​
WHO CAN TAKE PART?
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There is no limit to the amount of devs that can register, the competition is open to everyone no matter your skill level. You'll need to qualify from the round in order to continue in the competition.
HOW WILL I KNOW WHAT TO CREATE?
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Each round will give you a specific task to complete that is related to an element of game development. Some tasks may focus on sound design, some may focus on art, you may even be asked to make a game with a set theme and limitation. The task for the round will be revealed at the start of each. After the round has ended there will be a standard community voting period after which the entries with the lowest ranks will be eliminated from GDKO and everyone else will receive an invite to the next round.
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