The Global Game Jam is back – and we’re happy to announce that dot big bang will be the event’s headline sponsor for the third year running!
The Global Game Jam is the world’s biggest game creation event, taking place January 22nd-28th 2024. Thousands of people join physical and online jam sites to make a game, alone or as part of a team, over a single weekend. Last year, over 7000 games were made in 108 countries, and this year’s jam promises to be bigger than ever. Read on to find out more!
If you’re entering the jam, dot big bang is the perfect tool to make your game. It’s a fully-featured game creation platform that runs in a web browser, with no install required. You can start a game project quickly, then build, edit, and collaborate with others in real time.
If you’ve ever dreamt of making a multiplayer game during a jam but it felt out of reach, dot big bang makes it easy with straightforward built-in networking technology, and a large player base ready to hop in and play.
Best of all, players can join your game instantly via a simple link, on any device at all. All of these perks will help you spend as much jam time as possible working on your game, and make sure as many people as possible can play.
If you’d like to learn how dot big bang works ahead of the jam, run through the checklist below. It’s an intro tour of the tools, editors, and resources, and will get you into making right away!
- Start a game in the Game Editor, and check out the FPS & Combat kits
- Make an object in the Voxel Editor – and drag it right into your game
- Run around in the GGJ Hub & Hub World games to see dot big bang in action!
- Check out the super useful Docs site – and bookmark it for later
- Jump to the Quickstart, Intro, Game Editor Guide, or ddb for Unity devs pages
- Check out this YouTube playlist for some game jam info and prep videos
- Use the Install button in the homepage menu to create a desktop shortcut
- Join our Creator Discord and say hi – the dev team is happy to chat, and answer questions!
Jammer registrations open on December 4th at globalgamejam.org, and there’s plenty coming up in the next few weeks, including warm-up streams on Twitch and YouTube, and a week of Micro Jams with the dev team. Join our Discord for more info, and follow our social media to stay up to date with everything that’s going on.
Let’s go! Happy jamming!
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