Gaming Like It’s 1927: Get Ready For Our Next Public Domain Game Jam

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Signal up for the Community Area Video game Jam on itch.io »

It is that time of calendar year! At any time given that performs in the US eventually begun getting into the community area again, we’ve been internet hosting an yearly match jam for designers to produce online games based on the year’s newly copyright-free of charge will work. This year, it’s Gaming Like It is 1927!

There are loads of exciting will work becoming readily available this yr, including:

• Novels, brief stories, and poems by Agatha Christie, Baroness Orczy, Hermann Hesse, Marcel Proust, Upton Sinclair, and Virginia Woolf in addition the first three The Hardy Boys books
• Artwork by Ansel Adams, Edward Hopper, Georgia O’Keeffe, René Magritte, Salvador Dalí, and Tamara de Lempicka
• Movies including The Jazz Singer, Metropolis, Napoléon, and Trolley Problems
• Audio by Béla Bartók, Ira and George Gershwin, Igor Stravinsky, Irving Berlin, Louis Armstrong, Ruth Etting, and Sophie Tucker

Check out out Duke’s General public Domain Day posting or Copyright Lately’s spherical-up for far more performs coming into the community area.

As common, the contest is open to each electronic and analog games of all varieties, as prolonged as they are primarily based on or include supplies from just one or far more performs that enter the public area in 2023. We have some fantastic prizes for the winners in six distinctive types. The jam will be open for submissions for the entire thirty day period of January, and you can sign up for and check out the entire guidelines, groups, and prizes on the jam site over on Itch.io — so go sign up and get started wondering up tips!

For inspiration, you can examine out the winners of the jams for 1923, 1924, 1925 and 1926. We’ve always been absolutely floored by the creativeness and variety of submissions from equally knowledgeable and new sport designers, which have beautifully illustrated the immense worth of a sturdy and increasing community domain. We just cannot wait to see what you occur up with this year!

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