University Gamejam

21/05/2025

Announcing: Gamejam 2025 runs from Mon 16th June to Fri 20th June- sign up here for free entry:

University Gamejam 2025 is a social, collaborative competition where competitors can work individually or form teams to make a game from scratch within a week! Everyone with all sorts of skillsets are welcome (not just game developers!). Themes of the week are set at the Opening Ceremony on Monday.....

26/05/2023

Gamejam 2023 is confirmed - Mon 19th June - Fri 23rd June and you can get your tickets now!

University Gamejam 2023 is a social, collaborative competition where competitors can work individually or form teams to make a game from scratch within a w

25/05/2022

We're proud to announce the date for the University of Portsmouth Gamejam 2022!

The start for this year's event is Monday 4th July 2022, hosted at none other than the University of Portsmouth's Eldon Building. Bookings are now open here: https://onlinestore.port.ac.uk/conferences-and-events/creative-and-cultural-industries/creative-technologies/university-gamejam-2022

NOTE: This is a face-to-face/physical event this year (back to usual!), but we will also accommodate virtual participants (so please sign up even if you can't physically make it to Portsmouth)!

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What is a Gamejam?
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A game jam is an event where participants gather from far and wide, and make a game in a short space of time either individually or in a small team - our Jam is 4 days of development, and 1 day of showcasing to industry judges and the general public. We'll wrap things up on Friday evening with an Awards Ceremony for the very best games!

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Who's a Gamejam for?
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Everyone! Games development requires all sorts of skill sets, ranging from creative writing, coding, physical prototyping, illustration, 3d art, animation, motion capture, audio, composition, visual effects, interactive design, fashion, virtual production (literally everything!) etc. Don't feel like it's not for you (because it is!), and don't worry if you're alone, we can help you find a team! The only real rule is you have to be 16 or over.

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Ok, cool, how do I sign up?
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Sign up is available here: https://onlinestore.port.ac.uk/conferences-and-events/creative-and-cultural-industries/creative-technologies/university-gamejam-2022

Physical Gamejammer £15 - This includes a hot lunch for every day of the event (Monday to Friday) and a FREE custom-made Gamejam t-shirt
Virtual Gamejammer £2 - This is only for participation in the event virtually. We can't email you a hot lunch unfortunately, but you can get a t-shirt + other goodies posted to you as optional extras (UK residents only)
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University Gamejam 2022 is a social, collaborative competition where competitors can work individually or form teams to make a game from scratch within a w

21/05/2022

We will have the sign up for this years event and confirmation of date very soon.

It will be our first attempt to do a hybrid - in person and online event.

01/10/2021

Montage from 2021:

A collasion of videos from University Gamejam 2021

28/06/2021

T-Shirts

The shirts have arrived with us and we will start processing send them out etc soon. Please do bear with us on this. IF you can collect in person please let us know via email [email protected].

Should you wish to order a t-shirt from this years event you can do this again via the online store link

https://onlinestore.port.ac.uk/conferences-and-events/creative-and-cultural-industries/creative-technologies/university-gamejam-2021-virtual-edition

18/06/2021

So here are some more assets from The Incredibogs.

17/06/2021

Team Vibes 'R' us Doing some great work on the character and animation !

16/06/2021

Artwork and WIP from Team Vibes 'R' Us [Who are Aurora Freir
Oliver Addison, Rhianne Macswan , Vaughan Lee-Spring
Dayna McEntee and Ella Dear]

16/06/2021

Kieran Sharley created this character for Team Hikiw

16/06/2021

More WIP artwork, this time from Team Long Neck Fellas