The festival of gamers and igrodelov in St. Petersburg NextCastle.ru and geekparty.ru they hold a week-long competition for high-speed game development.
The total prize pool is $4,500. Games written in HTML5 will have separate prize nominations.
The stated theme is “horror”. The results of the competition and the awarding of the winners will be held within the framework of the festival NextCastle.ru .
Festival organizer NextCastle.ru Alexander Pavlov commented on this event as follows: “Today, the phenomenon of gamejams is gaining momentum and goes beyond the gaming community. Due to the fact that the means of creating digital content have become simpler and accessible to the masses, even people who are far from game dev can take part in game jams. In fact, this is pure digital creativity in a short period of time. We couldn’t get past this phenomenon and also decided to arrange a game jam.”
Gamejam is already in full swing, but it’s not too late to join it. There are still four and a half days. Details on geekparty.ru .
Festival NextCastle.ru It will be held in St. Petersburg on November 1-2.