WHEN
23-25 January 2015
Book the dates already now! As every year the last weekend of January is the GGJ weekend, so clear your calendar and come prepared! We will create games and have fun together!
WHAT
Plovdiv Game Jam is open to anyone interested in video games - professional, students or just people with talent! The idea behind the event is to get together a mix of people with different backgrounds, interests and skills, and motivate them to work together on an idea - to plan and execute the concept in 48 hours. Just for the sake of the challenge!
WHERE
The Global Game Jam (GGJ) is the world's largest game jam event. In Bulgaria the event will be held in two locations – Sofia and Plovdiv. The event will be live streamed globally to the other Global Game Jam locations.
Board Games Track
Breaking News! This time we will have a Board Games Track, for those of you who play / like / is into board games. We will provide scissors, paper, dice and other materials, so come and play with us! Remember to write "Board Games" in the Message field in the registration form!
Program
- 12.00: Registration
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12.30 -13.20: Kickstarter or Kick in the Ass for Starters – presentation, XS Software
In this lecture we will share our experience from our campaign Ragewar in Kickstarter - what we had to learn, conditions to start a Kickstarter campaign, stages of preparation and implementation, activities you should not skip, audience you want to reach, methods for recruiting popularity, common mistakes and presentation of the project. Speakers: Georgi Georgiev, Yordan Danchev, Kaloyan Gigilev -
13.30 -14.15: Basics of the iterative process in game design – workshop, Gameloft
Speakers: Vasil Nikolov, Game Designer -
13.30 -14.15: Girls need their space … in gaming too – discussion, XS Software
Is there a difference in the creation of games for women and men? Are there games entirely for female audience? Are men and women different gamers or players? Women in the gaming community and their place in eSports. Women as game developers and GamersGate – we will discusse all this in the lecture Girls need their space ... in gaming too. Speaker: Nadejda Deribasheva -
14.30 -15.20: Art Pipeline in Casual Games / Agile Methodologies in game development – workshop, Gameloft
Speakers: Nikola Stoyanov, 2D artist and Petar Petrov, 3D artist / Tanko Shokerov, Producer -
15.30 -17.30: Integration of Armored Bears in the entertainment software - workshop, Dreamteck
Speakers: Dimitar Tsaprev and Yoan Aleksiev -
17.30 -18.00: Fear and Loathing in Programming Video Games - lecture, Ubisoft
Speaker: Mikhail Lozanov, Creative Director at Ubisoft Sofia -
- 19.15 -19.45: Announcing the official Global Game Jam theme/ Motivational words by Simo & Bernar – audience award winners from PGJ14
- 20.00 -20.30: Dinner
- 20.30 - ?: Group Forming
- 09.00: Breakfast
- 09.30-11.00: Work on games
- 11.00: Deadline to create user profile and game page on Global Game Jam site
- 11.00-13.00: Work on games
- 13.00: Lunch
- 13.30-20.00: Work on games
- 20.00: Dinner
- 09.00: Breakfast
- 09.30-13.00: Work on games
- 13.00: Lunch
- 13.30-15.00: Work on games
- 15.00 -16.30: Deadline for handing in the games is 15.00!
- 16.30 -19.00: Presentations – Each team has 10-20 minutes to do a short presentation of their game
- 19.00 -20.00: Voting and announcing the winners
- 20.00: After Jam beers
People
Vasil Nikolov
Speaker 2015, Speaker 2016Position: Game Designer, Gameloft Bulgaria Projects: March of Heroes, Tokyo Tycoon, Zombie Infect...
Petar Popov
Speaker 2015Workshop: Art Pipeline in Casual Games Position: 3d Artist, Gameloft Bulgaria Projects: Zombie In...
Nikola Stoyanov
Speaker 2015Workshop: Art Pipeline in Casual Games Position: 2D Artist, Gameloft Bulgaria Projects: Zombie In...
Tanko Shokerov
Speaker 2015Workshop: Agile Methodologies in game development Position: Senior Game Producer, Gameloft Bulgar...
Joe Robins
Speaker 2015Joe Robins joined Unity back in 2009. He is currently a Community Evangelist, assisting Unity Dev...
Nadejda Danabasheva
Speaker 2015CGO at XS Software Longest game session Nadia has is 72 hours. She tried to play Diablo 2 with th...
Yoan Aleksiev
Speaker 2015John is the main 3d designer in the independent studio Dreamteck. He has finished photography in ...
Dimitar Tsaprev
Speaker 2015, Speaker 2017Mitko is co-founder and programmer in independent game studio Dreamteck. He graduated from high s...
Eleonora Mateeva
OrganizerGraduated Plovdiv University with Bachelor “Business Information Technologies”. She l...
Boris Dzhuvinov
OrganizerGraduated Plovdiv University with BsC in Computer Science. He loves organizing all kinds of socia...
Anders Højsted
OrganizerFinished IT University of Copenhagenwith Master of Science in Information Technology. Founder &am...
Stefan Stavrev
OrganizerHe graduated from a prestigious Language High School and continued his education in Plovdiv Unive...
Kremena Dimitrova
OrganizerFinished IT University of Copenhagenwith Master of Science in Software Development. She has a mas...
