Where Have All Good Game Dev Contests Gone?
February 1st, 2010 by Juuso
Was thinking of creating a brief list of game dev contests, this is a pretty brief list but those interested in participating in game dev contests (or some form of prototyping) might want to check out these:
- globalgamejam.org – by IGDA
- igf.com – The big Indie game conference thing. You all know it.
- unity3d.com/contest/ – Unity has their own
- experimentalgameplay.com/ – the prototyping site.
- udevgames.com – by iDev Games. (Don’t know how regular this is nowadays)
- ludumdare.com – good thing, experimentation.
Please help fill the list.
Update:
Here’s several more from you readers:
- TIGsource
- Kokoromi (GAMMA4)
- IndieCade
- Sense of Wonder Night (Tokyo Game Show)
- Indie Games Arcade (Eurogamer Expo)
- Indie Bay Competition (48 hour contest)
- Fizzy
- Game Jolt
- BlitzMax (BlitzMax Community contests)
http://gamejolt.com/ Holds contests pretty regularly. Not much in the way of prizes but good community.
Hey I was a judge at the Global Game Jam in Vancouver yesterday. Teams (3-4 people) had to make games in an engine of their choice in 48 hours and ideally had to stick to the theme of Deception and maybe include a punk, monk or skunk. 6 teams made great games in the short time period. It was fun!
There is the Indie Bay Competition, which is a 48h game contest, just like Ludum Dare: http://theindiebay.com/competition/
Here’s another competition that goes on for the whole of 2010:
http://www.fizzy.com/competition/gdn
A few more:
GAMMA (hosted by Kokoromi…currently Gamma4)
http://www.kokoromi.org/announcements/looking-fourward/
IndieCade
http://www.indiecade.com/
Sense of Wonder Night (Tokyo Game Show)
http://tgs.cesa.or.jp/sown/en/
Indie Games Arcade (Eurogamer Expo)
http://expo.eurogamer.net/index.php
Oh, and of course TIGSource always seems to have something going on:
http://forums.tigsource.com/index.php?board=9.0
BlitzMax.com also quite often has competitions. There’s often a BltiMax Community Framework competition going on.
Cool… thanks everybody. I’ll add these to the post.