Game Off 2019 theme announcement
The 2019 theme for Game Off, our annual month-long game jam and hackathon for building games is LEAPS AND BOUNDS. Join now!
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Get ready for Game Off
Join us for Game Off on November 1, where you can create your own game, learn a new technology, and even collaborate on something over the weekends with friends.
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Game Off 2018 theme announcement
We’re unveiling the 2018 theme for Game Off, our annual month-long game jam (hackathon for building games). Continue reading to learn more.
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Get ready! Game Off returns in November
Build a game this November in our annual month-long game jam
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Game Off 2017 winners
Thousands of game developers from all over the world participated in Game Off, our fifth annual game jam celebrating open source. The theme this year was throwback, and jammers created…
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Game Off IV Highlights
Last month, we challenged you to create a game based on the theme hacking, modding, and/or augmenting. For all those that submitted entries, thank you! A little holiday gift will…
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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…
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GitHub’s game jam, Game Off, returns next month
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…
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Game Off III – Everyone’s a Winner
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…
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GitHub’s Game Off is back, and this year it’s a little different! The Challenge Take an existing game or game jam entry on GitHub, fork it and do something awesome…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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Last month, we challenged you to create a web-based game loosely built around the theme of forking, branching, cloning, pushing, and/or pulling for our very first game jam, the GitHub…
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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…
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