Game Off Theme Announcement

We announced the GitHub Game Jam, our very own month-long game jam, a few weeks ago. Today, we’re announcing the theme and officially kicking it off. Ready player one!

The Challenge

You have the entire month of November to create a game loosely based on the theme hacking, modding and/or augmenting.

What do we mean by loosely based on hacking, modding and/or augmenting? Here are some examples:

• an endless runner where you hack down binary trees in your path with a pixelated axe
• a modern take on a classic e.g. a roguelike set in a 3D or VR world
• an augmented reality game bringing octopus/cat hybrids into the real world

Unleash your creativity. You can work alone or with a team and build for any platform or device. The use of open source game engines and libraries is encouraged but not required.

We’ll highlight some of our favorites games on the GitHub blog, and the world will get to enjoy (and maybe even contribute to or learn from) your creations.

How to participate

• Sign up for a free personal account if you don’t already have one
• Fork the github/game-off-2016 repository to your personal account (or to a free organization account)
• Clone the repository on your computer and build your game
• Push your game source code to your forked repository before December 1st
• Update the README.md file to include a description of your game, how to play or download it, how to build and compile it, what dependencies it has, etc
• Submit your final game using this form

It’s dangerous to go alone

If you’re new to Git, GitHub, or version control…

• Git Documentation: everything you need to know about version control and how to get started with Git
• GitHub Help: everything you need to know about GitHub
• Questions about GitHub? Please contact our Support team and they’ll be delighted to help you
• Questions specific to the GitHub Game Off? Please create an issue. This will be the official FAQ

The official Twitter hashtag for the Game Off is #ggo16. We look forward to playing your games.

GLHF! <3

Written by

Lee Reilly

@leereilly

Senior Program Manager, GitHub Developer Relations. Open source hype man, AI whisperer, hackathon and game jam wrangler. I write && manage programs, support dev communities, and occasionally ship something.