Join the Gwinnett County Public Library Learning Labs for our third annual all ages Game Jam! 

This game jam is unranked, and open to everyone worldwide. But if you live in Gwinnett County or surrounding areas, you can enter to be featured with your work at our GameDev Showcase event on May 4th at the Free Comic Book Day event in downtown Lawrenceville.

Additionally, we are still permitting entry of card, board, tabletop, and hybrid games.

Special thanks to Southern Fried Gaming Expo for sponsoring this year's Game Jam!

The Southern-Fried Gaming Expo (SFGE) is a 3-day fan convention focused exclusively on gaming. The expo is held July 19-21, 2024 at the Renaissance Waverly Hotel and Cobb Galleria Convention Center in Atlanta, GA, and boasts over 300 full-sized arcade games, pinball machines, and console systems, indie game designers, along with tabletop gaming, vendors, special guest speakers, wrestling, tournaments and more!

The theme for this year is "Tales from the Abyss." The theme is open to interpretation. Feel free to explain your interpretation of the theme on your Game Jam submission page after you upload your game.

We are the Gwinnett County Public Library's Learning Labs. We are a community makerspace that provides the means to create, collaborate, and share digital content. If you are a videographer, graphic designer, creative professional, hobbyist or artist, the Learning Lab has the software and equipment to turn your vision into reality.

In the Learning Labs, you can create and share music, podcasts, video and photography content with our collection of audiovisual equipment. You can design digital and printable graphics for your business with our digital drawing tablets and the full Adobe Creative Suite. Make your cosplay dreams and product ideas a reality with our 3D printers, sewing machines, CNC machines and laser cutter. Your imagination is the architect in the Learning Labs.

1. Almost any game engine, tool, or game-making website is allowed. The exception is no AI-generated artwork. If you cannot upload your game to itch.io, fill out this form for us to play your game on a website like Scratch.
2. Your game must be SFW (safe-for-work). This is an all ages jam, so avoid nudity, drug use, profanity, slurs, or extreme violence. We will remove any games we deem inappropriate.
3. Games must be made playable for the web only. 
4. Games must be free to play.
5. If you want the chance to be selected for our May 4th Showcase at Free Comic Book Day at the Lawrenceville Arts Center, please fill out this form.

What ages can participate?

This is an all ages Game Jam! To publish games on itch.io, you must be 18 years old (or have a parent or guardian publish it for you). More information on itch.io Terms of Service are located here. If you have a child that wants to participate but doesn't know how to use an engine like Unity or Unreal, they can use the Scratch website and submit a link to their game through our website when the form goes live on March 1st.

Do I need to live in Gwinnett County, Georgia, or have a library card?

Absolutely not! One reason we chose to host on this website is so that anyone can participate!

What tools can I use?

You can use almost any tool available to you. No AI-generated artwork may be used. Entries from any engines will be accepted.

How do we get our game featured in a highlight reel on YouTube or at the Showcase event in May?

We will post a link to the form here when it goes live on March 1st.

Who owns the game I created?

You will own all the rights to your game. If you consent and we select your game to be featured in a highlight reel or Showcase, all credits go to the creator(s).