Global Game Jam 2020

Kick-off a new decade with a new game! January 31-February 2 come make games with the NYU Game Center’s alumni, students, faculty, and developers from all over NYC! The NYU Game Center is excited to host New York City’s best Global Game Jam site for the 11th year in a row.

The Global Game Jam brings together game makers, musicians, artists, programmers, beginners, and veterans to make a game based on a shared world-wide theme in forty-eight hours. Jam alongside 280,000 other game makers from 93 countries around the world!

People of all skill levels and experiences are welcome and encouraged to come jam! Game jams are a great place to make your 1st game or your 15th game. Our site also welcomes games of all types, and encourages folks to work on digital or non-digital games.

Ideas that started simple at the NYU GGJ have grown into impressive, award-winning, released games! 2013 GGJ game Mushroom 11 was released on Steam, after being selected for an IGF nomination, IndieCade, and the PAX 10, among other festivals and awards. Nina Freeman and Emmett Butler’s 2014 GGJ game How do you do it? is out now, and was selected for IndieCade as well as nominated for an IGF. Our site’s Best Overall Game of 2014 was a board game called Lucca, which went on to become an Official Selection at IndieCade 2014.

Find a full FAQ and info about the NYU Game Center site on our GGJ site page.