The Global Game Jam (GGJ) is the world's largest game jam event occurring annually in late January. GGJ brings together thousands of game enthusiasts participating through many local around the world. GGJ is a project of the International Game Developers Association (IGDA).

Global Game Jam 2011

GGJ 2011 is scheduled for January 28-30, 2011. The 2011 leadership committe members are:

• Foaad Khosmood
• Gorm Lai
• Ian Schreiber

GGJ History

Susan, Gorm, Ian Global Game Jam was the brainchild of IGDA Education SIG director, Susan Gold, in collaboration with active IGDA members Gorm Lai and Ian Schreiber. GGJ was founded in 2008 as an IGDA event to broaden the outreach of the organization while giving the world an opportunity to create games in the world’s largest Game Jam to date. The 1st Annual Global Game Jam was held January 30-Feburary 1, 2009 to much critical acclaim and success. With over 1600 participants in 23 countries, the GGJ produced 370 games. In 2010, the number of participants increased to over 4300 with about 900 finished games. (See a 2010 recap)

GGJ is a volunteer run organization, built upon the very hard work of the leadership, site organizers and of course the participants.

Past Contributors

In addition to thousands of game jammers, local jam organizers, designers, artists, teachers, musicians and sponsors who make up the GGJ community, we would specially like to thank the following individuals for their help and dedication as GGJ leadership team members in the years past:

• Marinka Copier, The Netherlands
• Susan Gold, USA
• Anders Højsted, Denmark
• Olivier Lejade, France
• Sean Kauppinen, USA
• Tim Nixon, New Zealand
• Mike Reddy, Wales
• Darren Torpey, USA

The GGJ extends a special thanks to the IGDA for providing the administrative backbone, mentoring and guidance to produce an event of this magnitude and caliber.

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