Exploring Borders - a successful PLAY20 Game Jam

November 9, 2020

Exploring Borders: A successful PLAY20 Game Jam

Last weekend was all about "Exploring Borders" with the PLAY20 Creative Gaming Festival and our PLAY20 Game Jam, where teams from all over the world participated to create new games in about 45 hours.

Last Weekend was all about "Exploring Borders" with the PLAY20 Creative Gaming Festival and our Gamecity Hamburg PLAY20 Game Jam. In about 45 hours over the weekend, the teams and developers, in total over 100 participants from all over the world created 26 diverse and fun games.

We are happy that so many creative and talented people participated and created their take on the topic of Exploring Borders.

What did "Exploring Borders" mean for the teams and developers?

Some games use actual tactile boundaries for the player; other games deal with crossover boundaries, for example of perception and reality, sleep, psyche, or morality.

All games can be found and played on the Gamecity Hamburg itch.io site:

https://itch.io/jam/play20-online-game-jam

The PLAY20 Game Jam entries for "Exploring Borders"

For those who want to get an impression of the games beforehand, OddNina's Let's Play features a selection of the best games:

https://www.twitch.tv/videos/796081781

Many thanks to all participants and to the wonderful supporters and helpers of the #PLAY20jam!

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