This year, due to the Covid-19 situation we are only going to have the event online.

GGJ will make the official theme public already on Wednesday. This time the theme don't have to be secret, as all the locations are online and streaming live.

18.00 – GGJ keynote and theme reveal

So, in 2021, the teams will have an extra day, Thursday to work on their prototypes. Rejoys! 🙂

The teams can work when they need to and plan their time accordingly. We will have volunteers, ready to help and assist, 24/7 on the official PGJ discord server.

Our official live stream is going to be on Twitch, but we will also have Facebook live. We are still preparing an online mini-conference about game development on Friday, the 29.01.2021 and Saturday, the 30.01.2021. Аnyone that is interested and wants to watch the talks and presentations, our Twitch channel is open and we welcome all.

We know that it's very difficult times for all of us, and it is not going to be as fun as other years, but we all hope that we will have good time nonetheless and make some awesome games together.

The Plovdiv Game Jam organizer team is looking forward to see you and jam with you in Discord!

For participants:

all day – Working on the games

For participants:

all day – Working on the games

Live stream:

13.30 – Start of the live stream and intro

13.50 – Official opening of PGJ 2021

14.00 – UI/UX Q&A panel with Sergey Punchev, Elitsa Dimitrova and Magdalena Chervenyakova from Studio Punchev

15.00 – Sound design for games - Simeon Dotkov from Snapshot Games Inc.

16.00 – Tech art and what is rigging? - Мario Мusov from Snapshot Games Inc.

17.00 – From game jammer to game developer - Julie Heyde from Flat Ponies/VR Unicorns will tell us about her game Aki Robots and gamejams

18.15 – VR Game Development - Kristiyan Goleminov from Prime Holding;

19.00 – Review from the previous jams

For participants:

all day – Working on the games

11.00 – Deadline for team registration in GGJ!

Live stream:

10.30 – Start of the live stream and intro

10.50 – Schedule for the day

11.00 – 10 steps for developing a board game - Miroslav Garigov from NASTOLA

11.45 – The birth of a villain - from brief to 3D character with Martin Punchev and his team from Vertexbee

13.00 – Interviews with the PGJ teams, part 1

15.00 – Mark Ralev - "The story of GEMJI - the world's most multifunctional board game ever made"

16.00 – Headaches with packing and loading assets in Unity - Filip Slavov  from Snapshot Games Inc.

17.00 – Interviews with the PGJ teams, part 2

24.00 – Closing of the stream program for the day

For participants:

all day – Working on the games

15.00 – Deadline for uploading the games on GGJs site!

15.00 - 16.00 – Preparing the presentations

16.00 – Game presentations, part 1

17.00 – Game presentations, part 2

18.00 – Voting and announcing winners

Live stream:

16.00 – Game presentations, part 1

17.00 – Game presentations, part 2

18.00 – Voting and announcing the winners

18.30 – Interviews with the winners

19.00 – Closing of the PGJ 2021