We are very pleased to announce that the Brisbane venue for the very wonderful Global Game Jam is back for the weekend of January 30th – February 1st.
We offer two options for registration: Physical (F2F) participation or Virtual (via Discord).
The Brisbane venue is an 18+ site. It is open for 24 hours but is not a ‘sleep over’ site. Come with a team or find folks to create with on-site. We recommend pre-organised teams choose either physical (on-site) or virtual via Discord (unless you have experience working together remotely).
The site is BYO everything you need to create a game. We supply a safe place (with security), power and network access (wi-fi only). There will be snacks and beverages provided, and hopefully there will be pizza!
We are thrilled to announce the dates for the 2025 Queensland Games Festival! This year we have two days – an Industry afternoon and evening and our usual free public exhibition day with all our favourite events and some new ones!
Day 1: Industry Framework Event – June 13th
Watch this space – our Industry Framework Event is designed for our game developer community as a space to chat about the things we need to chat about and share the things we need to share! QGF Industry Framework Event will be open for registration soon.
Day 2: The Queensland Games Festival Exhibition day – June 14th
The Queensland Games Festival exhibition will be held at the Brisbane Powerhouse on Saturday June 14th and will feature locally made games exhibited by the studios that made them, public workshops and networking opportunities plus our very favourite Emerging Developer Room mentoring sessions! Thanks to support from our own Zed Games, we are also hosting an Amplify Games Showcase for experimental projects, funky concepts and early WIP.
The EOI for the exhibition is now open and will close on May 4th – go to submission form
The Exhibition and event day is on at the same time as the farmer’s markets and we get public flow though which means things can get quite chaotic so having volunteers wandering around directing and helping makes such a difference.
Plus for those of you who do come and assist, what a good way of making yourselves known to to the local game development community!
Thank you to our wonderful venue sponsor – QUT Entrepreneurship and the generous folks at The foundry who let us use their wonderful space for the weekend!
And thank you to our awesome pizza sponsors – Gameloft Brisbane – because it wouldn’t be a game jam without pizza!
Thanks to our awesome sponsors – Gameloft Brisbane and QUT Entrepreneurship foundry, the crazy (hopefully already sleeping) @GGJ Organiser team and fabulous volunteers and all the wonderful folk who came to the jam and the ones who supported the ones who came to the jam … our brizzy GGJ site has a magnificent 27 games uploaded … some are still place-holders as some jammers are finalising builds but they are all amazing gorgeous 48hr games .. .
We are very pleased to announce that the Brisbane venue for the very wonderful Global Game Jam is back for the weekend of January 24th – January 26th. This intensive weekend is kindly supported by Gameloft Brisbane and if you join us F2F there will be pizza!
The Brisbane site invites design and making of digital, analogue, tangible and experimental games – come and explore some ideas!
We offer two options for registration: Physical (F2F) participation ($26) or Virtual (via Discord).($7.00)
Space is limited so do grab your registration as soon as possible! See below for details and registration to join as a volunteer.
The Brisbane venue is an 18+ site. It is open for 24 hours but is not a ‘sleep over’ site. Come with a team or find folks to create with on-site. We recommend pre-organised teams choose either physical (on-site) or virtual via Discord (unless you have experience working together remotely).
The site is BYO everything you need to create a game. We supply a safe place (with security), power and network access (wi-fi only). There will be snacks and beverages provided, and hopefully there will be pizza!
We are very pleased to announce that the Brisbane venue for the very wonderful Global Game Jam is back for the weekend of January 26th – January 28th.
Global Game Jam (GGJ) is the world’s largest game creation event taking place around the globe boasting tens of thousands of participants (jammers) at hundreds of physical and virtual sites in over one hundred countries around the world. In January 2020, GGJ had a record-breaking year with 934 locations in 118 countries create 9,601 games in one weekend! The event has grown even more since that time and we are very proud to be part of it!
After a rather wonderful hybrid local Brisbane event in 2023, we are BACK! BACK! BACK!
Global Game Jam welcomes participants of all abilities – the jam is about enjoying making games together! We welcome both analogue and digital game makers as well as anyone who just wants to experiment and play with the form.
The Brisbane venue is an 18+ site. It is open for 24 hours but is not a ‘sleep over’ site. Come with a team or find folks to create with on-site. You can read more about our venue on our official Global Game Jam site (but please note the page redirects back to this post for registration). We recommend pre-organised teams choose either physical (on-site) or virtual via Discord (unless you have experience working together remotely).
Brisbane Global Game Jam Date Claimer and Heads-up!
The Global Game Jam® (GGJ) is the world’s largest game jam event (game creation) taking place around the world at physical (and virtual) locations over the same weekend! GGJ is a seriously fun event with big community vibes. Joining a site is about an adventure in game making (digital, analogue, whatever) and creativity.
The Brisbane site for Global Game Jam is Back! We will be running a 48 hour site for the main weekend of the Global Game Jam from Friday February 3rd – Sunday February 5th
We are running a hybrid event this year. We have a physical venue with limited spaces and a virtual site via Discord. Register with friends and a pre-made team or come along and join a team during the event.
Please note: The Brisbane GGJ is an over 18 site. Our venues are open late but we are not a sleep over site.
Registration is individual so if you have a team please be sure to organise everyone – and make sure your team members register via the correct site. We will be sending out participation details on January 27th.
Important: GGJ is a completely BYO computer and tech event (e.g. computers, monitors, power cables etc.)
* Registration via Discord will involve you in agreeing to our Discord server expectations about behaviour, rules and protocols. You will also be asked if we can use public aspects of your activity in the jam as (anonymous) data for a community research project. Don’t worry if you don’t want to – you will have the opportunity to ask that your data is anonymised or not used.
Hello to all you emerging devs out there! This is an early invite and a call for volunteer helping folks for GO423 on Saturday December 3 at the Brisbane Powerhouse!
GO423 is our annual festival of locally made games with our own studios and makers showing off their work on the Turbine Platform. It’s on at the same time as the farmer’s markets and we get public flow though which means things can get quite chaotic so having volunteers wandering around directing and helping makes such a difference.
Plus for those of you who do come and assist, what a good way of making yourselves known to to the local game development community!
Sign up for a morning and / or an afternoon slot, make sure you plan to stay on for our famous Loot Crate Debate event – hosted by the always amazing Dan Vogt and featuring a number of local game devs – and our final social / networking session!
Call for EOI* – As usual, we hope to display a range of games made locally in the GO423 exhibition at the Brisbane Powerhouse. Do you have a game to show off?
We love to see:
Completed games – published and already out there
Works in progress – ready to play test or pre-release
Play experiments – something you have made that explores the possibilities of the medium
And all things in between! Digital and Analog formats are welcome.
GoogleEOI form here– extended due date to November 18th
GO423 is proudly supported by the Queensland Government through Screen Queensland’s Screen Culture Funding program.
Our annual GO423 festival is on again on December 3rd 2022 at the Brisbane Powerhouse – a chance to discover the rich creativity of the local game-making industry: With some of the world’s most played games coming out of Brisbane and South East Queensland, the local game-making industry is an important part of our community. This one-day event will allow you to get involved with hands-on workshops, play locally made games, chat with developers, and discover more about the folks who are leading this important creative industry.
Watch this space for our call for games for the exhibition, small sponsorship opportunities and calls for volunteers to help on the day
GO423 is proudly supported by the Queensland Government through Screen Queensland’s Screen Culture Funding program
