Penn Play Game Jam

10/14/2017

Check-in is happening right now! Don't miss swag bags and the opening ceremony at eleven! Come play!

04/24/2016

04/03/2016

Congratulations to all of the participants of Penn Play 16! Thanks for making this year our best and most exciting event yet.

And a special congrats to all of our winning teams:

BEST OVERALL GAME - Obscura by Richard Lee, Charles Li Wang, Mohamad Moneimne, and Rachel Winetavius Hwang

Best Game Runner-Up - CounterStruck by Lukewarm (Yichen Shou, Jun Xia, and Jiatong He)

Best Art - Apepi by Four (Akshay Shah, Reika Yoshino, Irem Öz, and Trung Le)

Technical Distinction - ドキドキSUPERFUNタイムーGTS98 by DOKIDOKISUPERFUNTAIMUGTS98 (Brendan Luu, Nick Newberg, and Kerem Kazan)

Best Use of Theme - Dead Too Soon by AA Batteries (Anthony Hsieh and Annie Yang)

Penn Play Organizer's Choice (Tasters' Choice) - re:wind by Lilach Brownstein, Darren Yin, and Ruoyu Fan

Didn't get a chance to watch Penn Play demos? We'll be hosting a gallery with all of the game submissions.

We hope you all had as much fun as we did, and we look forward to seeing you next time at Penn Play Game Jam (and new events we're hosting) in the future!

Best,

The Penn Play 16 Team

04/02/2016

TODAY'S THE DAY! Here is the schedule of events:

Saturday, April 2nd

10am - 11am | Check-in opens in Raisler Lounge
11am | Opening ceremony & Unity Workshop
11:30am | Lunch/team formation
12pm | Hacking begins
12pm | Speaker: Chris Landeau on Game Design and Landscape Architecture
5pm | Unreal Workshop
6pm | Dinner is served
7pm | Game Design Panel & Workshop at Penn Play 16

Sunday, April 3rd – Game demos and judging!

8am | Breakfast is served
12pm | Hacking ends
12pm | Lunch is served
12:30pm - 2pm | Judging and open game demos
2pm - 3pm | Closing ceremony

All workshops and speakers will be happening in Towne 337, food will be served in Raisler Lounge, and hacking space will be available on the second floor of Towne.

Can't wait to see you all soon!

03/15/2016

AHMAHGERD THE NEW WEBSITE IS UP.

And registration is open!

What a wonderful day!

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/18aRWbJwgwx2yq-wt9n2c7wThYXEVMIgtxwgoeKCpRww/viewform to register.

pennplay.org to feast eyes.

Penn Play is a 24-hour student-run game jam celebrating graphics, programming, art, music, writing, and a culture of collaboration and play in gaming. Join us Saturday April 2, 2016 and Sunday April 3, 2016 for games, free food, sponsor swag, and a lot of fun side events! Time to [Penn]PLAY~!

03/30/2015

Could all the participants, please, add all the team members to their submissions on challengepost, not only the the member who made the submission. Thanks!

03/29/2015

Thanks to all of our judges, sponsors, and participants for a fantastic game jam!

Best Game Overall: Roundtrip

Runner-Up (Best Game Overall): Spacero

Best Web Game: Personal Space

Best Art: Probe

Technical Distinction: Impulse

03/29/2015

COME PLAY TOWERFALL WIITH US! http://www.twitch.tv/sachabest

Penn-Play

03/29/2015

Quick Announcement: The Closing Ceremony will be in Raisler Lounge at 1 pm :)

03/29/2015

BREAKFAST IS SERVED! Come to Raisler Lounge.

03/29/2015

Submissions are now open!

Penn Play Game Jam 2015 - Game Development Hackathon hosted at the University of Pennsylvania

03/29/2015

Hey everyone, we'll be putting up the ChallengePost link soon for submissions. If you're done it'd be great if you could get a demo video for your submission. Make sure you have your games ready for the expo by 10:30 so that the judges can check them out!