Global Game Jam is the world’s largest game creation event, annually bringing together tens of thousands of game developers from over 100 countries to make thousands of video games in the span of 48 hours. 2023 will be the 15th edition of GGJ and seeing as how it is such a big occasion they decided to make things even bigger this year. As previously announced they are moving GGJ Next, the annual game creation event focused on young game creators to coincide with GGJ, and second they are announcing a new addition to thee annual tradition, GGJ Prep Week!
GGJ Prep week will happen the week prior to GGJ and feature an entire week’s worth of content hosted on our Twitch and YouTube channels and presented by GGJ, the sponsors, and local communities around the world to get you ready for the jam. With all of that out of the way they can get to the news you have all been waiting for, the dates for Global Game Jam 2023:
GGJ Prep Week: January 23rd – 27th
Global theme reveal event: January 28/29 (depending on your time zone)
Jam week: January 30th – February 5th
You or your site organizer will have the flexibility to run your jam site over any of the 48 hours in the week of January 30th – February 5th, 2023, or all of it if you plan to jam online but we expect most people will run their site the weekend of February 3rd – 5th 2022 as is traditional with GGJ.
