What?

Game Jam is a private event powered by KAUST in partnership with Sandsoft. The event focus is  game development with the aim to inspire and spark innovation in young generation of designers, developers and creatives,  enabling them to develop games based on the event’s theme “time”.  The theme will first be announced on the day of the event, but not in the marketing campaign and communications to prevent participants from any chance of planning ahead on the game they will be creating. 

How?

The virtual event starts on Thursday evening with the keynote speakers from KAUST and Sandsoft network. Teams or individual participants can apply, they can be teamed with others and can start conceptualizing and building their game in the following 48 hours. During the event, participants will have access to a variety of mentors and sessions by industry experts to guide them in their journey. 

Upon 48 hours expiration, all participants are to submit a gameplay video(s) which will be evaluated by judges. 

This event allows participants to join the community of game designers and mentors virtually, through Zoom and Discord. They will be working together on the Unity platform to develop the games. The winning teams are to be announced by the end of the event. Each team will be awarded special giveaways.