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03/03/2013
 


[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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