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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…

The GitHub Game Off, our very own game jam, returns next month! Participants will have the entire month of November to build a game based on a secret theme (to…

To highlight the people behind projects we admire, we bring you the GitHub Developer Profile blog series. Meet Richard Davey, the game developer behind Phaser — a free open source…

Tens of thousands of game developers will descend upon San Francisco next week for the annual Game Developers Conference (GDC). But what would GDC be without the parties? Come by…

Our friends from Epic Games are hosting an all-day Unreal Engine 4 workshop for mobile developers at GitHub HQ on Thursday November 5th. Attendees will learn about authoring 2D and…

Last month, we challenged you to fork a game repository and do something awesome with it based on our Tron-inspired theme, “the game has changed“. Below are the submissions. They’re…

The GitHub Game Off, our very own game jam is returning next week! We’ve had some great games submitted in previous years and can’t wait to see what you come…

The Game Developers Conference (GDC) is just a couple of weeks away, and we’re giving away 20 expo passes so you can get in on the fun! In addition to…

We announced our second annual game jam, the GitHub Game Off II, back in October. Today, we’re revealing the winners and giving you the chance to play and fork these…

We ran our very first game jam last year and had so much fun, we decided to throw another one! The Challenge You have the entire month of November to…

The GitHub Enterprise team will be at the CEDEC conference in Yokohama, Japan, this week. Please stop by to say hello, find out more about GitHub, and grab some of…

A game jam is typically a 48-hour hackathon for building games based on some theme. Participants—or “jammers”—usually work in teams of two to five people comprised of artists, sound engineers,…

The GitHub Game Off is coming to an end. There are almost 1337 forks and a ton of great looking games already. The judges can’t wait to dive in! We’ve…

Here at GitHub, we’re no strangers to hosting or sponsoring hackathons. With the growing number of games and game development resources on GitHub, we thought it was about time to…

GitHub is a goldmine of resources for game developers. I’d like to introduce you to five open source projects that’ll help you build your first, or next, amazing game. Check…