[This unedited press release is made available courtesy of Gamasutra and its partnership with notable game PR-related resource GamesPress.]
GameTako, a non-profit organization that aims to
create an indie game industry in Arabia, is proud to announce the 3
rd
GameZanga Pan-Arabian GameJam of spring 2013
where its a 4 day development competition and it will start on the
14
th of March 2013.
The competition will start by announcing a “theme”
that Jammers will have to stick by when creating their game in 4
days, submissions will be closed on the end of the 4
th day.
Anyone in the world could participate if their resulting game is
in Arabic or has no language at all. All games will be reviewed and
judged by famous arabic game site reviews to insure integrity
There will be partnering physical locations where they will be
open 2 days on the weekends of the gamejam, where you can meet
other developers participating and cosplay and just be awesome and
these locations are in these cities:
• Riyadh
(location for ladies will be available)
• Amman
• Cairo
• Abu
Dhabi
• Tunis
•
Casablanca
Our location partners are
• N2V
• Khalifa
University
• The
District Cairo
• Tunisian
Game Developers TGD
• Moroccan
Game Developers
The GameZanga Sponsors are
• N2V
• Sony
SCEE
• Unity
• YOYO
games
•
Stencyl
•
Design3
•
Scierra
What happened in our last GameZanga:
• 43
original arabic games
• 3
physcial location
• 3 days of
GameJaming
• over 200
registered developers
• lots of
new teams and new talents found
for more information about locations and rules of the
competition please visit the official location of
GameZanga and be part of the Arabian game
development community.
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