WHEN
26-28 January 2018
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 Glo0bal Game Jam (GGJ) - the world's largest game jam event. In Bulgaria, in 2018 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
- 19.00-22.30: Pre-party, hosted by GAME DEVELOPMENT SUMMIT and B12 GAMES in Kanape
Our friends from B12 and Game Dev Summit would like to invite you to an icebreaker, mingling, friendly "ajljak" starter of the 5th edition of Plovdiv Game Jam! Save the date and come with friends! :)
Free entrance.
- 12.00: Doors open
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13.00 -13.30: Talk – Yes, you can sell your game!
by Gergana Gruncharova, Busting the myth about making a lot of money from your game -
13.40 -14.20: Art Presentation - 13 myths about concept art
by Petya Kirisheva, 13 most common misconceptions about concept art that stop artists from having a career in the game industry. We will talk about the most popular myths like “marketing illustrations = concept art”, through fun myths like the fact that artists are strange lonely birds and we will focus on existential myths that really hinder any development like the one that you need to have talent to become a good artist. -
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15.10 -15.40: Talk - Creation and publishing of board games: from orbital speed to escape velocity
with Radomir Mirchev -
15.50 -16.20: Presentation - Brinicle Games: Who are they? How did they get together? What are they currently working on?
with Georgi Bozgilov and Georgi Kostov -
- 17.10 -17.40: Announcing the official Global Game Jam theme
- 17.40 -18.40: Group Forming
- 19.00 - 20.00: Dinner
- 20.00 - : Working on games
- 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 5-10 minutes to do a short presentation of their game
- 19.00 -20.00: Voting and announcing the winners
- 20.00: After Jam beers
People
Hristo “Ristaki” Georgiev
Host 2018Hristo has 10+ years experience in the web industry as a Web Designer, 5 of which professionally....
Radomir Mirchev
Speaker 2018A graduate in Law and a professional book editor, creator of the Stalker LARP series and the Wc3 ...
Georgi Kostov
Speaker 20183 years of experience in the game development. 1 year as a member of an Indi studio. 3 times part...
Georgi Bozhilov
Speaker 2018Talic is a passionate gamer, movie lover and anime fan. His dream is to develop games. In profess...
Jonathan “joXnka” Salame
Speaker 2018Involved in organizing gaming events and societies from the far-off 2002, his passion is to provi...
Gergana Gruncharova
Speaker 20185+ years of experience in entrepreneurship 7+ years of building and realization of marketing stra...
Petya Kirisheva
Speaker 2018A graduate engineer, Petya has abandoned the engineering industry already during her studies. She...
Colorado Stark
Speaker 2017, Speaker 2018Software Entrepreneur for 20 years. Course Lecturer – C ++ programming for Unreal Engine &#...
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...
Venue
Sponsors
Partners
Media
Plovdiv Game Jam is an unique opportunity for local companies to support and spread the word about the Bulgarian game industry. Sponsorship money goes toward things such as logistics, marketing, operations, and opportunities to present the games at international conferences. Our goal is to promote rapid prototyping, iterative design, collaboration and game studies while uniting the game development community in a giant experiment in creativity.
Games
Help
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