Gaming Like It’s 1927: Get Ready For Our Next Public Domain Game Jam
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Indication up for the Community Area Recreation Jam on itch.io »
It’s that time of calendar year! At any time considering the fact that performs in the US last but not least started out entering the public domain yet again, we have been web hosting an annual game jam for designers to develop games centered on the year’s newly copyright-absolutely free operates. This year, it’s Gaming Like It is 1927!
There are loads of intriguing performs getting to be offered this year, such as:
- Novels, limited tales, and poems by Agatha Christie, Baroness Orczy, Hermann Hesse, Marcel Proust, Upton Sinclair, and Virginia Woolf additionally the initially three The Hardy Boys books
- Artwork by Ansel Adams, Edward Hopper, Georgia O’Keeffe, René Magritte, Salvador Dalí, and Tamara de Lempicka
- Movies including The Jazz Singer, Metropolis, Napoléon, and Trolley Problems
- Audio by Béla Bartók, Ira and George Gershwin, Igor Stravinsky, Irving Berlin, Louis Armstrong, Ruth Etting, and Sophie Tucker
Test out Duke’s General public Area Working day article or Copyright Lately’s round-up for more operates entering the public area.
As usual, the contest is open up to the two electronic and analog online games of all types, as extensive as they are dependent on or include materials from one particular or a lot more operates that enter the community domain in 2023. We have some fantastic prizes for the winners in 6 various categories. The jam will be open up for submissions for the whole month of January, and you can sign up for and watch the full procedures, groups, and prizes on the jam website page in excess of on Itch.io — so go indicator up and start off contemplating up tips!
For inspiration, you can test out the winners of the jams for 1923, 1924, 1925 and 1926. We’ve constantly been completely floored by the creative imagination and assortment of submissions from equally professional and new match designers, which have wonderfully illustrated the immense worth of a sturdy and growing general public domain. We just cannot wait around to see what you occur up with this 12 months!
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