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Play All The Games Made At The Global Game Jam 2024!

The Global Game Jam 2024 is over, and now it’s time for the funnest part of all—checking out all the games people made!

The theme for this year’s jam was Make Me Laugh, and entrants made nine very varied games in response. From a stand-up comedy simulator, to a food-based 3D shooter, to a Katamari-inspired ball-rolling creature collector, there are some really interesting games to try.

And all the more impressive—all these games were made in just two days! Read on for the full rundown, and be sure to drop likes and comments on the games to show the creators some love!

Join dot big bang’s Jam Site At The Global Game Jam!

The Global Game Jam 2024 is open for registrations! The event that takes place Jan 22-28th, with different sites choosing different dates within that range. Entrants make a game in 48 hours in response to the theme, and submit it before the deadline.

If you’d like to take part in the jam, whether alone or as part of a team, you can sign up now – and dot big bang is hosting a digital jam site this year! Read on to find out how to sign up.

Learn To Make Games At Micro Jam Week!

The Global Game Jam 2024 is coming up fast, with jammer registrations opening on Monday Dec 4th. To celebrate, we’re running the first dot big bang Micro Jam Week!

This is a series of five daily co-building streams that’ll help you learn to make games on dot big bang. The streams will happen on Twitch and YouTube each day from the 4th-8th December, at 14:00 PST / 17:00 ET / 22:00 GMT.

Hosted by members of the dbb dev team, each micro jam will show you how to make something awesome on dot big bang, whether it’s making a new character, designing a small game world, or whipping up a custom player controller.

dot big bang Sponsors The Global Game Jam 2024!

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!

Day[9] To Stream Games Made With dot big bang At The Global Game Jam

This year’s Global Game Jam is here, and we’re excited to announce that we’ll be doing a special post-jam wrap-up stream with beloved OG streamer and friend of dot big bang, Sean “day[9]” Plott!

10 Reasons To Use dot big bang At The Global Game Jam

While prepping for the Global Game Jam, at some point every jammer faces the same question: what am I going to use to make my game? Well, look no further! dot big bang is a fully-featured online gamedev platform that runs entirely in a browser, on any device. It’s perfect for rapid iteration, working together in teams, and quick game-sharing.

Here are ten reasons to try dot big bang at this year’s jam.

How To Enter The Global Game Jam 2023 & Get Started On dot big bang!

The Global Game Jam is a great opportunity to get your creativity flowing, learn some new gamedev skills, and have fun rapidly prototyping a new game. But first things first – to take part, you need to sign up. This blog will tell you how to enter the jam, how to register with a jam site, and where to find FAQs and resources to get ready ahead of time.

Game Jam Advice From Two Game Jam Veterans

Bradley Adams (Senior Software Engineer) and Heather Harvey (Community Designer) are two game jam veterans who entered the Global Game Jam using dot big bang and 2022, and ended up working here!

Based in Vancouver, Canada, they joined dot big bang in June of 2021 under their game dev pseudonyms booradley and punkerella. We caught up with them ahead of this year’s Global Game Jam to ask for some game jam tips.

Hey hey. The Global Game Jam is bearing down fast! How are you both feeling about what’s coming up?
We really enjoy game jams, so we’re super excited to jump in and get started. We have done GGJ every year since 2013 and it’s always great. Shout-out to the Vancouver organizers for doing an amazing job every year!

dot big bang Sponsors The Global Game Jam 2023!

Global Game Jam is back for 2023, and we’re happy to announce that dot big bang will once again be the event’s headline sponsor!

The Global Game Jam is the world’s biggest game creation event. Last year, 33,000 jammers made 5,858 games in over 100 countries, taking part either virtually, or at in-person sites located all around the world. The 2023 jam is happening between Jan 29th-Feb 5th, and registrations for are open now – click here to sign up!

dbb x GGJ: Making A Game In 48 Hours

Game jams are a great avenue for established and aspiring game devs to learn, grow, and experiment. They providing the framework and motivation needed for quick iteration, working in teams, and focussed bursts of creativity and productivity. With this in mind, dot big bang Community Engineer Ashley Koett entered the Global Game Jam this year. The resulting game is “ESP”, a ‘single-player co-op’ puzzle-platformer on the jam’s theme of ‘Duality’ (play it here). We caught up with her to find out about how it went, and what unique qualities dot big bang brings to the table as a game jam platform.