Plovdiv Game Jam 2017

WHEN

20-22 January 2017

Book the dates already now! As every year, in one of the last weekends 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 Game Jam is part of Global Game Jam (GGJ) - the world's largest game jam event. In Bulgaria, in 2017 Global Game Jam will be held in five locations – Sofia, Plovdiv, Burgas, Varna and Gabrovo. The event will be live streamed globally to the other Global Game Jam locations.

Program

12.00: Registration opens

13.00 -13.20: Lecture, Trakia Games

Opportunities in the game industry. Speaker: Ned Nedyalkov

13.30 -14.00: Lecture, Microsoft Bulgaria

Cloud for Game Developers. Speaker: Alex Yochev

14.10 -14.40: Presentation, Quark VR

Advertizing a VR project with 0 leva. Speaker: Victoria Victorova

14.50 -15.30: Art workshop, Victus Game: Rewrite History

How to plan, create and follow а unique and unified vision for your game’s art. Speakers: Peter Dimitrov, Nikolay Uzunov

15.40 -16.10: Lecture, KIPI Interactive

The difference between game development and any other job. Speakers: Viktor Ketipov, Boris Stoyanov.

16.20 -17.20: Discussion panel

How to choose the right engine/platform for game development. Participants: Colorado Stark, Stoyan Nikolov , Dimitar Tsaprev . Moderator: Georgi Dinchev

17.40 -18.00: Announcing the official Global Game Jam theme

18.00 -19.00: Group Forming

19.00 - 20.00: Dinner

09.00-09.30: 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

09.00-09.30: Breakfast

09.30-13.00: Work on games

13.00: Lunch

13.30-15.00: Work on games

15.00: Deadline for handing in the games!

15.00 -16.30: Preparing presentations

16.30 -19.00: Games 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