The date for the Global Game Jam 2013 has been set. During the weekend of January 25-27th, next years’ GGJ will take place. Hashtags: #ggj13 #ggjnl

Thanks everybody for a fantastic Global Game Jam NL 2012! Lots of great games have been created during the past 48 hours. Below you’ll find the winners of each location, plus the link to their download page. AMSTERDAM 3rd place: Frag Frogs 2nd place: Bezircle 1st place: Catch 22 Audience award: Señor Destino   HILVERSUM [...]

Our amazing game jam ends here: [View the story "GLOBAL GAME JAM NL 2012 - Part 3" on Storify]

More lovely stories from all over the country: [View the story "GLOBAL GAME JAM NL 2012 - Part 2" on Storify]

Read about the adventures of everyone involved in the Global Game Jam NL 2012 right here: [View the story "GLOBAL GAME JAM NL 2012 - Part 1" on Storify]

Although the Global Game Jam is strictly speaking not a contest and is all about collaboration, the GGJ in the Netherlands has always awarded prizes to games that turned out to be the most interesting, well made or just fun. This year we continue this tradition. Since we have five locations now, we do things [...]

Due to a fair amount of last minute cancellations, we suddenly have additional space available at the HKU Hilversum and HvA Amsterdam locations. So if you want to join the Global Game Jam NL in those places, sign up here, as we reopened the entry form.

The GGJ Directors are excited to announce YoYo Games as one of the sponsors of GGJ 2012, along with Windows Phone, Autodesk, Gaming Academy, Indie City, and Brass Monkey. YoYo Games offers -all- participants around the world, coupon codes for ‘a free (2month) time-limited copy of (fully functional) GameMaker:HTML5′ to help participants with game jamming. They also offer a 50% discount on GameMaker:Studio when [...]

Just to show you we’re all in this together: here’s a nice little compilation showing greetings from jam locations all over the world. Breda, Leeuwarden and Hilversum are featured as well.