TheGDG Game Jam 2026 Vol. 1

The Game Dev Group Game Jam is back for its sixth edition!
The game jam is the embodiment of our community principles.
Meet. Learn. Collaborate. (and Say Hello!).

This time we are trialling a new 2-weekend format! The event is hosted online and most communication will be taking place on the community Discord: https://discord.gg/djd9HfggJ3
Anyone is welcome to participate!

Feel free to start looking for teams on the Discord straight away. Minimum team size is 1, maximum is 5.

Submissions will be made through the Game Jam page on Itch.
The theme will be announced on Friday, 20th February on TheGDG Discord.

Schedule:
Friday, February 20th, 18:30 - Theme Announcement Posted, Jam Begins
Sunday, March 1st, 20:30 - Jam ends, voting starts
Sunday, March 15th, 23:59 - Voting ends, Winners to be announced shortly after

All submissions must be made by Sunday, September 21st 12:30 pm to the jam's itch page here to be counted for voting. Voting closes two weeks later at 23:59 on 5th October.

Additional details on the schedule and resources will be communicated via the Game Jam section on our Discord. Make sure to sign up for updates via the #game-jam-sign-up channel.

Be sure to play entries and vote and be the awesome, supportive community of Devs that we all are!

If you have any questions ahead of time, drop [didi@thegamedevgroup.com](mailto:didi@thegamedevgroup.com) an email, or post up on the Discord and we'll get back to you.

Can't wait to see you there!

P.s please share far and wide with your game dev friends, colleagues, frenemies even, so we can build it into the biggest, best most welcoming Game Jam in the world :)