WHEN
29-31 January 2016
Book the dates already now! As every year the last weekend of January is the Global Game Jam 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
Plovdiv Gam Jam is part of Global Game Jam (GGJ) - the world's largest game jam event. In Bulgaria, in 2016 Global Game Jam will be held in four locations – Sofia, Plovdiv, Burgas and Varna. The event will be live streamed globally to the other Global Game Jam locations.
Program
- 12.00: Registration opens
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13.00 -13.45: Storytelling in gaming
How and why video games have become one of the best storytelling arts? Speaker: Yordan Zhelyazkov. -
14.00 -14.50: Presentation, Grozen Ent.
GROZEN ENT. - About the comics as an industry. Speaker: Sybilla Koritareva -
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16.40 -17.30: Discussion panel - What is the next best thing in the game industry?
Speakers: Georgi Dinchev, Ivaylo Koralsky, Vasil Nikolov, Maria Kamarashka. Moderator: Hellyana Velinova -
- 18.40 -19.00: Announcing the official Global Game Jam theme
- 19.00 -20.00: Group Forming
- 20.00 - ?: Dinner
- 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
- 09.30-13.00: 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...
Кonstantin Кanev
Host2016, Host2017Кonstantin Кanev, better known as NoThx. In his spare time he is an eSports & Gameplay commen...
Maria Kamarashka
Speaker 2016Maria “Miffzy” Kamarashka is а PR & Event Manager in GplayTV. Her first contact w...
Sybilla Koritareva
Speaker 2016CEO at Grozen ent. Grozen ent. is a cultural organization, publishing house for comics and artboo...
Hellyana Velinova
Moderator 2016Confused. Lost. Loved. Searching for something. I am a modern nomad. Witch. Sometimes I talk too ...
Ivaylo Koralsky
Speaker 2016A person with a particular passion for the sea, received its first console when he was two years ...
Aleksey Savchenko
Speaker 2016Evangelist (Eastern Europe), Epic Games • Successful entrepreneur and reliable contractor with pr...
Yordan Zhelyazkov
Speaker 2016Yordan Zhelyazkov is a professional writer and former semi-professional PC gamer (now rehabilitat...
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...
Cvetomir Andreev
Organizer 2016Cvetomir graduated as Bachelor of Informatics at the Plovdiv University “Paisij Hilendarski...
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...
