This jam is now over. It ran from 2025-01-25 01:00:00 to 2025-01-27 19:00:00. View 26 entries


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100+ participants, 30 games made in 48 hours (Jan 24-26 2025), held at University of Saskatchewan

PHOTOS

WINNERS

Best Beginner Game: Recursion. Honourable Mentions: Bubble Racers, Deep Sea Duel

Best Veteran Game: Octo Smasher. Honourable Mentions: Forg, Merlin's Bubble Trouble

Best Sound: Bubbles and the Fury. Honourable Mention: Depth of Discharge

Best Theme: Bubble Up. Honourable Mention: Dot Com Crash, Bubble Wrap

Best Art: Merlin's Bubble Trouble. Honourable Mentions: Kitty Pool, Búbblèr, Recursion

Best Multiplayer: Bubble Sumo. Honourable Mentions: Bubble Brawl

Best Solo-made Game: Bupole. Honourable Mentions: Aquarium Delirium, Glyphoria, Bubble Wrap, Bubble Bath Pirate

Best Boardgame: Bubble Kingdom: Pop the Princess

Best Webpage: Búbblèr. Honourable Mentions: Bupole, Depth of Discharge

IN THE NEWS

CTV National News: Gaming developers put to the ultimate test

CTV Saskatoon: Saskatchewan gamers compete in global ‘Game Jam’ competition

CBC: Saskatoon gamers take 48-hour challenge to create new games

CBC Radio Canada: 48 heures pour créer un jeu vidéo : un défi de taille au Global Game Jam 2025 | Le téléjournal Saskatchewan

StarPhoenix: Saskatoon Game Jam offers an entry into video game development

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Submissions(26)

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Unearth ancient artifacts of a sunken ship and navigate treacherous caverns full of magnificent creatures
Adventure
A board game where you are the pin assassins tasked to stop the Bubble Princess from marrying her beloved Pin Prince.
Create a thought bubble in a thought bubble in a thought bubble in a...
Puzzle
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Ascend to the heavens, and find what lies outside the bubble of your reality.
Platformer
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A game for the Saskatoon Global Game Jam January 2025
Simulation
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A puzzle game where you must blow bubbles around to solve puzzles and save the ocean!
Puzzle
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Local Multiplayer fun
Shooter
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Pop your opponents' bubbles before they pop yours—stay sharp and defend your turf!
Shooter
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Blow and Burst Bubbles to Beat your Buddies!
Fighting
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Thank you for playing.
Simulation
You are a pacifist who cannot use weapons to attack. Defend yourself by using a magic shield!
Action
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Pop bubble in rhythm to music
Rhythm
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Survive as a little tadpole, trying to not drown!
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Two nobodies fighting at the start of the world CONTROLS: Player1 = keyboard+mouse, Player2 = controller
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A short visual novel about funny little bubble critters, stuck in their own point of view.
Visual Novel
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Demo version of a platform brawler using bubbles
Fighting
Shooter
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Bubble Battle each other
Fighting
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2025 Saskatoon Global Game Jam submission
https://bubblewrap.gimongous.net
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Smash to Survive!
Action
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Puzzle
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