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Apply for $100 in AWS Credits
Win a publishing deal and 5,000 EUR
Get a chance to win up to $5,000!
Free 2-month license for Houdini Indie
Get a $50,000 grant for your project!
Get 3 free song licenses & a PlusMusic Pro trial
Diversifier challenge for a $2,000 prize pool
Win an Intel NUC 12 Extreme Dragon Canyon
Get your free GGJ 2023 sound pack
Get a code for one free month of GitHub Teams
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UK Games Talent and Finance
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Core is an endless universe of games and worlds designed by a global community of creators. It's a radically accessible game construction kit, content exchange, and game-playing platform, all in one. With Core, you can create multiplayer games, using the power of Unreal Engine, with no coding or art skills required. When you're ready to share your creations, publish them to the Core platform where they'll be instantly available to play.
The biggest games in the world run on Microsoft Game Stack, but Game Stack was born to democratize game development.
We want to even the playing field by giving all developers the same powerhouse toolsets as big studios, so they can create the games they want. Period.
To see everything Unreal Engine has to offer participants, including free asset packs and tutorials, hop over to our Global Game Jam hub.
Eager to get started QUICK with Unreal Engine? Use this free game jam toolkit to get to making your game faster!
Looking for millions of dollars' worth of free content? Visit the Unreal Engine Marketplace.
Dive directly into a tutorial with Unreal Online Learning, which includes hundreds of hours of video tutorials for free.
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Everything you need to know about how to use the software is in our amazing User Manual. CLICK HERE to see the BUILDBOX USER MANUAL
There are tons of free assets inside the software that you can use to make your games so be sure to check it out!
If you are looking for Buildbox Video Tutorials, then CLICK HERE for BUILDBOX VIDEO TUTORIALS
If you have any questions at all or need any additional help, you can check out the BUILDBOX DISCORD or email [email protected] and we will get back to you as soon as possible.
Recognized as a global leader in interactive and digital entertainment, Sony Interactive Entertainment (SIE) is responsible for the PlayStation® brand and family of products and services. PlayStation has delivered innovation to the market since the launch of the original PlayStation in Japan in 1994.
The PlayStation family of products and services include PlayStation®5, PlayStation®4, PlayStation®VR, PlayStation™Store, PlayStation®Plus, PlayStation™Now, and acclaimed PlayStation software titles from PlayStation Studios.
Headquartered in San Mateo, California, SIE is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Sony Group Corporation and has global functions in California, London, and Tokyo.
Poki is a web gaming platform offering free online games to over 30 million users worldwide, every month. Poki’s goal is to create the ultimate online playground. Free and open to all. We help our growing game developer community, including Kiloo, Hipster Whale, MotionVolt, and may more to achieve success on web.
By offering their games to millions of new users and monetize via high-quality advertising. For more information, please visit developers.poki.com
DDM’s focus is to support industry creatives with the business side of things. For now, JAM on! In the future, if you are building a business in games – please reach out and we’ll let you know how we can help. www.ddmagency.com
Since we launched Steam back in 2003, it's grown and evolved into an open and global distribution platform, supporting players and developers all over the world. With Steamworks, we've built a free suite of tools that enables creators to streamline development, publish games, and connect with customers from anywhere in the world.
As a global PC gaming platform, we're excited to support a Global Game Jam and the developers that participate!
Try making a Facebook Instant Game!
Instant Games are quick-loading HTML5 games that people can play directly in the Facebook News Feed or in Messenger conversations, across a wide range of desktop and mobile devices. The platform offers a lightweight, modern JavaScript SDK that gives you login for free, an easy-to-use testing sandbox, and a no-cost hosting service for your static content.
If you write an Instant Game that can pass Facebook's policy review - basically work-safe, clean IP, and fun - please drop Facebook an email at [email protected] with your app ID, and they'll try to expedite review and get your game in front of an appreciative audience.
Houdini Indie's procedural node-based workflow offers a smarter way to create high quality game art. Houdini technology is used by AAA studios to take their games to the next level and now this procedural power is also available to indie game devs around the world.
Houdini Indie provides you with a procedural pipeline-in-a-box where all the steps needed to set up a model or game level are represented by networks of nodes. These nodes can be maintained deep into production, making last minute creative decisions easy.
SideFX returns as a Global Game Jam® Partner Sponsor and offers game jammers a FREE 2-month Houdini Indie license to use before, during, and after the game jam!
AirConsole created a great page just for Global Game Jam to help jammers use their tool. If you want to make a computer game where you use your smartphone as a controller, check out their page for tutorials, tips, and get up and ready in 4 minutes!
Oculus has tons of resources and quick-start guides for Unreal Engine and Unity here. Really helpful for jammers who want to develop for VR and get over the initial hurdles quickly.
WB Games New York works with some of the top talent in the game industry to build online competitive and social features for video games. Our highly experienced team of engineers utilize cutting-edge technology to build game services that are robust and scalable enough to support world-class developers such as NetherRealm Studios, Rocksteady, Monolith Productions, WB Montréal, and more! Check us out at www.wbgamesny.com for more info and exciting career opportunities!
Unity is the world’s leading end-to-end platform for content creators of all sizes to successfully realize their vision. Our platform provides a comprehensive set of software solutions that support them through the entire development lifecycle as they build, run, and grow immersive, real-time 2D and 3D content for mobile phones, tablets, PCs, consoles, and augmented and virtual reality devices. For more information, visit Unity.com.
Founded in 2004, Virtuos aims to shape the future of game creation by empowering the brightest talents and delivering high-quality content to the best game companies. With over 2,000 full-time professionals worldwide, Virtuos has collaborated with 18 of the top 20 digital entertainment companies. Through using industry-leading technology, cultivating a collaborative culture and encouraging a passion for games, Virtuos continues to push the boundaries of game development. Find out how we can supercharge your development pipeline at https://www.virtuosgames.com.
Krilloud is a graphic node-based audio middleware that facilitates the design and implementation of interactive audio in a creative, simple and efficient way.
Our mission as audio evangelists is to facilitate the audio workflow and resources of the community of developers, interactive experience designers and artists, by enabling a fluid and robust design concept tool and improving the communication between developers and audio creators.
We aim to give access to everyone to a tool that breaks barriers and allows them to enter the exciting world of interactive audio.
We encourage all Jammers to use Krilloud to design and implement interactive audio for their projects at the GGJ, to ensure we all enjoy a beautiful sound design. Enjoy the GGJ 2021 and stay safe!
The Endless Operating System is simple and easy for anyone to use. It is fully equipped with essential apps to learn, play, work and connect in 2020. All for free, provided by the Endless OS Foundation.
Once installed, no internet is required.
Let’s send more kids from more communities to the frontiers of science and technology. We partner with teams building programs and products that reveal and nurture hidden math genius.
While providing students with real-world learning experiences, the Cal Poly Digital Transformation Hub (DxHub) applies proven innovation methodologies in combination with the deep subject matter expertise of the public sector, the technology expertise of Amazon Web Services (AWS), and other partners to solve challenging problems in ways not contemplated before.
We believe that every person on the planet should love playing games, and the best way to make that happen is to have a game development community that is representative of, and welcoming and inclusive to, every person who wants to make games.
We support diversity and inclusivity in a number of meaningful ways.
- Our programs, centered on major industry events, help introduce game development careers to exceptional students from around the world and support the retention of game developers from under-represented communities. Our programs include IGDA Scholars, Velocity, and Next Gen Leaders.
- We support selected programs and initiatives throughout the game development community, including the Mentorship Summit at Casual Connect 2018 and Play NYC’s Graffiti Games exhibition.
We encourage you to join us, our volunteers, our participants, our partners, and our sponsors in building a more inclusive game development community.
As the state’s public polytechnic university, we continue to invest in the renewal of our existing facilities in addition to adding new spaces, with the goal of providing an exceptional teaching, learning and living environment.
NJIT offers more than 125 undergraduate and graduate degree programs in six specialized schools instructed by expert faculty, 98 percent of whom hold the highest degree in their field. Our academic programs are fully accredited by the appropriate accrediting boards, commissions and associations such as Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools (MSA), Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology (ABET), Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business (AACSB) and National Architectural Accrediting Board (NAAB).
Our extensive Continuing Professional Education programs and online courses offer important training for professionals already on the job, and our competitive industry internships help land you one of your own. Learn more about our online learning programs.
It’s where your world hangs out. Discord is a voice, video and text communication service used by over a hundred million people to hang out and talk with their friends and communities. Discord is about giving people the power to create space to find belonging in their lives. We want to make it easier for you to talk regularly with the people you care about. We want you to build genuine relationships with your friends and communities close to home or around the world. Original, reliable, playful, and relatable. These are the values that connect our users and our employees at Discord.
Core is an endless universe of games and worlds designed by a global community of creators. It's a radically accessible game construction kit, content exchange, and game-playing platform, all in one. With Core, you can create multiplayer games, using the power of Unreal Engine, with no coding or art skills required. When you're ready to share your creations, publish them to the Core platform where they'll be instantly available to play.
TwilioQuest is an educational video game designed to teach a new generation of developers how to change the world with code. TwilioQuest prepares you for real-world programming by helping you configure a local development environment and introducing tools used by professional programmers around the world. From learning how to use your terminal, to coding in Python, JavaScript, and contributing to Open Source projects, TwilioQuest will help you develop practical engineering skills.
UK Games Talent and Finance (UKGTF) is a community interest company (CIC) that has been established to support the UK games development sector, particularly at the early stage. For over 6 years we have been operating the UK Games Fund and Tranzfuser, supported by UK Government. Our goal as a CIC is to boost the UK’s games business and talent ecosystem. We want our funding to support video game start-ups, help create jobs, promote diverse new teams, enhance skills and increase the amount of new video games IPs in the UK. In short, we’re working to support the UK’s early-stage games development community.
The Cultural Antiquities Task Force (CATF) comprises federal agencies that share a common mission to combat trafficking in antiquities in the United States and abroad. Along with coordinating activities among member agencies, the CATF focuses on training law enforcement and customs officials, as well as supporting local governments, museums, and preservationists around the world in the protection, recovery, and restoration of cultural antiquities. Created by the State Department in 2004 at the direction of the U.S. Congress, the CATF is led by ECA’s Cultural Heritage Center and, as of 2016, is a working group of the Cultural Heritage Coordinating Committee.
Founded in 2009, Challonge Hosts over 100,000 tournaments around the globe every month. Including Bracket Predictions, Voting, And Themeable Brackets For Your Website. Competitive Communities. Online Bracket Generator. Software Integrations.
Millions of people across the world play games, listen to audiobooks and consume podcasts every day. Coming from a games background, we kept thinking, wouldn’t it be amazing to be able to make decisions, to interact, to explore these worlds and media by simply talking to them? Wouldn't it be incredible if anyone could make and share those interactive experiences? RichCast delivers that dream. RichCast lets players talk to the stories they’re listening to, influencing events and choosing their own path. This means richer, more involved, more captivating experiences, blurring the lines between fiction and games, between stories and puzzles, between listeners and authors. If you love audiobooks, podcasts, video games, or interactive fiction, you’ll love RichCast. RichCast is the brainchild of three highly respected and experienced UK games industry veterans: Neil Campbell, plus Philip and Andrew Oliver – aka The Oliver Twins. It enables people of all ages* to create original and diverse content that blurs the line between literature and entertainment, complete with voice and touchscreen controls, HD video, audio-visual effects and AI voices that bring new worlds – and words – to life. For more info check ou
Started in 2016 by four friends with the aim of letting anyone make a game, dot big bang is an online platform that enables people to play, make, and share games, on any device, instantly! It’s grown into a fully-featured browser-based game making platform. Seamless cross-play and real-time collaborative editing works on all devices, with no install. Playing and creating on dot big bang is free, with future plans to let creators equitably earn money from their work. We’ll enable creators to sell cosmetic items to players and sell objects, scripts and templates to other creators. dot big bang is also free for teachers, with an education programme in development. dot big bang is – and will remain – crypto-free and NFT-free.
Try it out at http://dotbigbang.com. Our docs and API are here. You can stay up to date via our social media, and talk to the developers on Discord!
GGJ 2022 jammers! Need some cool tunes for your game? The Longest Johns shared their tracks for you to freely use in your jam games: https://bit.ly/34V7OhA
The Longest Johns are a Bristol based, a capella folk music band, born out of a mutual love of traditional folk songs and shanties. They rock maritime songs alongside the more unusual and less traditional folk tunes. I doubt any of Bristol’s The Longest Johns ever imagined they would be able to get so far on just four voices. In a few short years they have gone from singing sea shanties in a kitchen to International folk festivals, tours, TV appearances and gained a huge online following. As the face of the 2021 sea shanty revival with their track Wellerman, the Johns are reaching millions of new fans all across the globe and showing them just how great these songs can be.
Multiplayer made easy! It takes just a few moments to configure a scene and game objects so they can see each other over the network. Using the free cloud hosting option, you can then deploy your project online directly from within the Unity editor, and even share your WebGL build hosted at coherence. A network engine, SDK and platform that lets you make and run scalable multiplayer games in minutes. A full-featured toolbox for multiplayer networking that gives you everything you need to develop, test and run your game. Build virtual worlds, room-based games or a combination of both – automatically scalable in the cloud and on bare metal.
CrazyGames is the go-to browser gaming platform for 20M monthly users. Hundreds of game developers have tapped into the CrazyGames platform to promote their games and earn revenue. These include mobile game studios like Voodoo, AAA studios like Ubisoft, and all of the incredible indie game creators and jammers that make browser gaming what it is today.
All developers participating in GGJ2023 can submit their jam game to CrazyGames.com for the chance to win a publishing deal and 5,000 EUR minimum guarantee. Submit your game with #GGJ in the description to enter. If you have any questions, contact us and include “GGJ” in your message, or @ us on Twitter.
We make 3D multiplayer online creation easy for everyone! YAHAHA is on a mission to democratize 3D content creation, helping creatives of all skill levels to make their own games, worlds, and social spaces. YAHAHA Studio is ideal for solo dev or small team to build games. It offers an all-in-one game development platform including millions of ready-to-use 3D assets, default multiplayer support, and low-code creation functions. Experience it now at https://yahaha.com/download Follow our latest updates via our social media, and join our helpful community on Discord! A live webinar on January 25th on Twitch to find out more about how we support your multiplayer game design. Create your entries in YAHAHA and get a chance to win up to $5,000! Learn More.
Photon - made by Exit Games - provides developers a global cross platform multiplayer gaming cloud (SaaS) & on premise socket servers plus scalable chat and voice communication. Photon is offered as Photon Server (on premise) and Cloud Service (SaaS). Both include libraries for various platforms - such as Unity, iOS, Android, Unreal, HTML5, Windows, Mac, WiiU, PSN, Xbox and more -, code samples and documentation.
Start today at http://www.photonengine.com/.
Supercharge your games with Firebase. Build, release, and operate successful games that delight your players.
Join us on 23 January 2023 from 10am - 12pm Pacific using this link for a pre-jam session where you will get exclusive, first-hand experience integrating Firebase into your game. We are looking forward to seeing you there!
Bring all your questions! We will have experts you can chat with throughout the session.
GitHub is the developer company. We make it easier for developers to be developers: to work together, to solve challenging problems, to create the world’s most important technologies—from games and experiments to popular frameworks and leading applications. We foster a collaborative community that can come together—as individuals and in teams—to create the future of software and make a difference in the world.
GitHub has provided us with coupons for a free month of GitHub for teams. Use this form to sign up.Codes will be distributed on a first come first served basis. We also have 50 codes for 3 extra months of GitHub for teams for any teams that want to continue development of their games after the jam. Teams can indicate interest in these extra codes when they fill out the form.
Our mission is to create and inspire new meaningful relationships.
AI characters will transform everyday life — from virtual worlds to the Westworlds of our imagination. We’re making the stuff of science fiction real.
AI that is designed to mimic the deeply social nature of human interaction is complex work. Our role at Inworld is to do the heavy lifting so that creators can do what they do best: tell stories, and design unforgettable experiences.
Get $50,000 for your project!
Calling all game developers, immersive artists, experiential storytellers, writers, and AI enthusiasts. Inworld will award up to $1,000,000 in grants to promising creators who build groundbreaking experiences with AI characters.
Global Engagement Center Mission: To direct, lead, synchronize, integrate, and coordinate U.S. Federal Government efforts to recognize, understand, expose, and counter foreign state and non-state propaganda and disinformation efforts aimed at undermining or influencing the policies, security, or stability of the United States, its allies, and partner nations.
Cubzh is a cube-based fully programmable universe, distributed as a lightweight all-in-one cross-platform application for players, artists and coders. Adrian & Gaetan, a pair of Minecraft addicts & Docker dev tool engineers, started working full time on this project in 2019 with one strong belief: cubes' ease of manipulation combined with a super welcoming yet powerful (Lua) scripting environment could work wonders!
In public Alpha since October 2021, the platform is built based on community feedback, progressively open-sourced. The app currently runs on iOS, Android, Windows, macOS & web browsers.
Check it out at https://cu.bzh. Dev docs: https://docs.cu.bzh. Join the dev team & the whole community on Discord! (don't hesitate to ask for help with your scripts!)
Use Cubzh to create your game! The dev team will be available throughout the jam on Discord in the #cubzh if you need help. We’ll showcase your games after the event, the best ones will win part of a $2000 prize pool.
Join the Intel Game Dev Program and learn how Intel collaborates with leading game and game-engine developers to enable great new experiences.
We are so excited to be a sponsor for this year’s GGJ!
We will be giving free NUC 12 Extreme Dragon Canyon systems to 5 lucky jammers in our NUC Game Jam Giveaway! Be sure to sign up by February 3rd using the link below for a chance to win a Dragon Canyon!
From the greenest buildings to the cleanest cars, from the smartest factories to the biggest stories, amazing things are created every day with Autodesk. Over four decades we’ve worked together with our customers to transform how things are made, and in doing so, we’ve also transformed what can be made. A car’s performance now inspires the method of its manufacture, a city’s infrastructure helps predict the unpredictable, and the creation of ever-bigger universes shapes ever-bigger stories.
Autodesk is proud to be a sponsor of the Global Game Jam 2023 Accessibility Fund!
Approved sites can apply for a small grant of up to $500 to help open up your site to make it accessible to more people.
AWS for Games has easy-to-use services and tools to make your game fun and accessible.
Use Amazon Transcribe to create voice commands for your game, Amazon Translate to create cross-lingual chat, or Amazon Polly to create speech in dozens of languages!
Also, all GGJ participants receive $100 in AWS Promotional Credits!
Just send an email to [email protected] and include Global Game Jam in the subject line and your company name, country and AWS Account ID in the body of the email, and an AWS representative will get back to you within 2 business days.
Go to this link and use Code: 63d2ceec4abd6 for 3 free song licenses and a PlusMusic Pro trial.
The future of music consumption is in games, UGC, metaverse. PlusMusic is an adaptive audio platform that combines AI to convert any song into adaptive audio assets for the next generation of digital experiences. PlusMusic song catalog is growing and currently holds over 350k songs from labels, artists and composers. Available through a first of it's kind consumption based licensing model and plugins for Unreal and Unity engines. For UGC and metaverse, PlusMusic offers an enterprise level music infrastructure to enable users with licensed music, audio tools and monetization opportunities.
Incredibuild is a hybrid dev acceleration platform that lets game devs use the power of their on-prem and on-the-cloud resources to cut down their build times and compute-heavy processes. We leverage the power of all the CPUs and cores on your network and with a simple client let you allocate the right amount of compute power wherever you need it. Incredibuild also integrates with Unreal Engine 5, as well as a variety of other integrations (you can learn more here), so you can work with your existing dev toolchain without interruptions. Incredibuild is used by game developers across the industry – from AAA to indies and everything in between. We also integrate with SDKs from Sony, XBOX, and Nintendo (Switch). You can learn all about how Incredibuild helps you develop games faster, iterate more frequently, and launch amazing titles that will thrill your players every time.
Construct 3 allows you to make your own stunning games right from your browser. You can build your own games in Construct 3 without needing to write any code using our unique block based system, or you can use Javascript in your blocks or create your games entirely in Javascript! Construct 3 is used by over 250,000 game developers every month to create beautiful and high performance games that run on a multitude of devices & platforms as well as being translated into 15 languages. We have thousands of tutorials in lots of different languages to help you get going as well as full documentation and a vibrant active community. If you're looking to make your own professional games fast, Construct 3 could be the game engine for you! Try our interactive guided tour now, no registration or download required.
Wevr is an award winning interactive software studio. Wevr’s mission is to empower creators around the world to build the Metaverse together. We provide a cloud platform for interactive creators - Wevr Virtual Studio - enabling creators to easily collaborate, create and share their projects. We collaborate with creators to build virtual worlds and applications, including Harry Potter with WarnerMedia, an original IP collaboration with Jon Favreau, and the award-winning TheBlu virtual ocean simulation.
Finding the right sounds for your game never been easier! SwishSwoosh is a game audio platform powered by the experienced sound designers of MadRooster Game Audio Lab. Offering sound packs to audio softwares, SwishSwoosh provides a wide range of audio library and solutions for your game sound.
www.swish-swoosh.com.
Check it out here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RX-FI1gztlk
Get the exclusive GGJ 2023 sound pack based on this year's theme and use it in your games!