Welcome to Frederick's first annual Global Game Jam at the lovely Cowork Frederick!!!

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Entrance Fee: None

Please be ready to attend the whole the jam. There is a maximum of 40 partcipants. If you are not sure you can attend the whole jam, then please leave these spots open for other partcipants who can stay the whole weekend.

Who Can Attend?

Anyone with an interest in designing games can attend. All participants must be 15 years or older. You don’t need to have experience in designing a game before and you don’t need to have programming skills. In designing a game various assets and skills are needed other than programming: writing, art, sound, and game design. You can also create non-digital games if you would like. Teams need a mix of people with various backgrounds and while forming the teams we will make sure teams are balanced

Food & Drinks

Participants will be responsible for thier own food. There are various lovely and tasty restaurants around downtown Frederick. We will also be providing snacks and drinks thoroughout the jam.

Sleeping

We would like participants to find thier own place to sleep for the night. If you are communting there are various hotels near the site. Best Western is one of the closest ones. To obtain a discount rate, a head count is needed. Please fill out this form if intending to use the hotel for the whole weekend.

Parking

There are parking garages near Cowork Frederick on All Saints and Carroll street. For rates please click on the link below.

https://www.cityoffrederick.com/faq.aspx?TID=15

T-Shirts

If you would like to buy a t-shirt please click the link below. T-shirts buys are due by January 10. After the list created, I will then send out the pricing for the T-shirts and post a link on this site to buy. I would like to gather the money by January 18 so, the t-shirts would be here when the game jam begins.

http://goo.gl/forms/htBB165Ymf

Schedule

The event will run from Friday, January 23th at 6pm until Sunday, January 25th at 5 pm. Participants will need to attend the entire duration of this event. The complete schedule is as follows:

Friday January 23th

6-6:30 pm: Check in and jam registration

6:30 pm: Theme reveal and presentations

7 pm: Group Forming and Social “Get to Know Each Other” exercises

8 pm: Brainstorming

9 pm: Pitching and critique

Saturday January 24th

11 am: Deadline to create user profile and game page

Sunday January 25th

3 pm: Deadline for handing in the games

5 pm: Presentations

Contact Information

If you have any question or concerns of the event please contact the lead organizer, Jesse Smith.

Email: [email protected]

Phone: 240-446-7736