Wacom Cintiq Award for best visual artist

Courtesy of our sponsor Wacom, we will hand out a special award to the team that creates the best visual art at our Global Game Jam. We call this prize the Wacom Cintiq Award and the winner gets one of those awesome Wacom Cintiq 12 tablet/screen hybrids. This allows artists to draw directly on top of the screen.

We think that’s some excellent motivation to create some stunning visual artwork, don’t you agree?

Join in on our Protospace experiment at the GGJ!

Dear participants of the Global Game Jam,

we’re proud to announce a very special feature at our Jam this weekend. Prototyping laboratory Protospace will give teams the opportunity to create real, tangible models of their game characters or other elements of their game, thanks to the amazing technology of 2D and 3D-printing.

Protospace is a laboratory in Utrecht where industrial designers, artists, engineers, architects (well… basically anybody) can build their (scale) models, mock ups and prototypes in REAL LIFE. Visit their website: protospace.nl

Follow them on twitter too: @protospaceNL

On Sunday afternoon, we’d like to provide you with the opportunity to upload your designs to the people of Protospace, who will be present at the Game Jam. Then you may choose between these three options:

Free Unity Pro trial version for GGJ participants

Another nice deal for GGJ participants worldwide. Because development platform Unity is sponsor of the Nordic Game Jam in Copenhagen, they have made available a trial serial number for downloading Unity Pro. This includes an Asset Server addon license.  Unity says: “Feel free to use this serial wherever you are. If you have never touched Unity before but would be curious to try it out for the Jam, you still have a week to play around and get used to how everything works.”

Check out this link if you’d like to know more.

The serial number is: U3-YGTJ-2682-KKDQ-5535-NQ73

Happy happy!

Students and educators @ GGJ get free licenses from Autodesk

Worldwide Global Game Jam 2011 sponsor Autodesk is providing Educational licenses of up to 3 years for some of their most popular products. If you ever wanted to learn tools like 3dsmax, Maya, Softimage, MotionBuilder and Mudbox or use them in a non-commercial game, now is the time! The software can be downloaded for free at Autodesk’s Education Community. Make sure to benefit from this great deal!

Achievements to be unlocked

Achievements for this year have been revealed!

This year, achievements will be a big part of the Global Game Jam challenge. They will provide you with a chance to prove you are not only a adequate developer, but a great one! The more achievements, the more skill. If you have participated before, you know any decent developer can take on the theme, it’s what else you do that makes you stand out. If this is your 2nd or 3rd time, try to get at least 1 achievement done, maybe even 2 or 3 or 4, and earn everlasting R.E.S.P.E.C.T. Check them out here.

GGJ participants get entry to Casual Connect in Germany

International game industry magazine Gamesauce offers participants in the Global Game Jam free entry to two conference tracks during Casual Connect, the premier event for the casual games industry in Hamburg, Germany on February 8-10.

The magazine editors will also pick 10 teams that made the most commercially viable titles during the Global Game Jam to present their work at the last day of the conference. These lucky few also get an all-access pass for the entire event.

We certainly hope at least one team from the Netherlands manages to wow the crowds in Hamburg!

If you want to know the exact details, visit Gamesauce or the main Global Game Jam site.

Maximum reached: Registrations for 2011 closed

Thank you for all your enthusiasm, we are ‘sold out’! (There is an option to be on the waiting list).
In the meantime, please consult the FAQ for all questions.

Get by with a little help

We are looking for enthusiastic people to help us out during the Global Game Jam. Are you interested in helping teams, preparing, shooting photo’s, coordinating? Let us know!

sjors@dutchgamegarden.nl

Registration Process GGJ NL 2011

To do to sign up for the Global Game Jam NL 2011, you have to do two things:

• First: Register for the GGJ NL edition via this form.
• Second: Register for the GGJ NL edition via http://globalgamejam.org. (Note: not yet possible)

Note: Registration for GGJNL should be done immediately, otherwise no participation. Limited seats available – first come first serve. The organisation holds the right to withdraw your registration.

GGJ Global registration:

Registration on the global website is now possible. See for instructions the GGJ Global website.