This year, as in 2021, due to the Covid-19 situation we are only going to have the event online - Discord only.

GGJ will make the official theme public already on January, 16th. This time the theme don't have to be secret, as all the locations are online and streaming live.

19.00 – GGJ keynote and theme live rewatch (in Discord)

19.30 – Group forming and registration of the teams

So, in 2022, the teams will have more days 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 Thursday, the 27.01.2022, Friday, the 28.01.2022 and Saturday, the 29.01.2022. 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

Live stream:

18.30 – Opening show - Welcome from the host and the PGJ team

19.00 - 19.45 – “How to create mobile games - from idea to reality” - Ivan Yosifov

19.45 - 20.00 – Break

20.00 - 20.45 – "Intro to reactive extensions for Unity" - Evgeni Petrov

20.45 - 21.00 – Break

21.00 - 21.45 – ”An Indie Startup - under the lid of an indie gamedev studio” - Mitko Tsaprev

For participants:

all day – Working on the games

Live stream:

18.30 – Start of the live stream and intro

19.00 – 19.45 - "Realistic shading and materials in 2D, as well as some totally other things " - Kosta Atanasov

19.45 – 20.00 - Break

20.00 – 20.45 - "Concept and aesthetics in texturing" - Simeon Sokerov

20.45 – 21.00 - Break

21.00 – 21.45 - “ZBrush & Unreal" - Tsvetomir Georgiev

For participants:

all day – Working on the games

11.00 – Deadline for team registration in GGJ!

Live stream:

12.00 – 12.45 - “User Acquisition for Games” - Iskren Yordanov

12.45 – 13.00 - Break

13.00 – 13.45 - “Character rigging in Blender for beginners” - Dimitar Dimitrov

13.45 – 14.00 - Break

14.00 – 14.45 - Interviews with the PGJ teams, part 1

14.45 – 15.00 - Break

15.00 – 15.45 - Interviews with the PGJ teams, part 2

15.45 – 16.00 - Break

16.00 – 17.00 - Interviews with the PGJ teams, part 3

For participants:

all day – Working on the games

15.00 – Deadline for uploading the games on GGJs site!

15.00 - 17.00 – Preparing the presentations

Live stream:

15.00 – 17.00 - Test playing the games from 2022

17.00 – 18.30 - Game presentations, part 1

18.30 – 18.45 - Break

18.45 – 19.30 - Game presentations, part 2

19.30 – 20.00 - Voting and announcing the winners

20.00 – Interviews with the winners

21.00 – Closing of the PGJ 2021