Zempai Successfully Concludes 2023 Global Game Jam

Game specialist company FromTheRed Co., Ltd. announced on the 6th that it successfully completed the '2023 Global Game Jam x Gempy' held over three days from February 3 to 5 at Seoul Startup Hub M Plus through the SNS service for game developers, “Gempy.”

The 'Global Game Jam' is an event where people gathered both online and offline develop games over 48 hours, held simultaneously worldwide since 2009. FromTheRed’s CEO, Seosangwook, said, “We really wanted to hold the Global Game Jam event to spread a developer-centered game development culture. Although we were concerned about low participation rates since this was the first offline game event in a long time due to COVID-19, we were surprised by the unexpected interest as about 60 people applied within five days of opening registration.”

When the theme for the ‘2023 Global Game Jam’ was announced, FromTheRed shared the keynote and theme of the Global Game Jam through its service Gempy and distributed guidelines for joining the Global Game Jam and registering projects, supporting participants to join the game jam without difficulty despite the short schedule.

Game developers participating in the Global Game Jam x Gempy 2023 interpreted the global common theme from various perspectives, discussed with each other, and produced high-quality game results. Games created by a total of 11 teams formed on the spot at the event, including “Geunboneul Chajaseo (Finding the Root)” by the “Ippeunideul” team, “Bisimyeong (Bisimyeong)” by the “Bisimyeong” team which attracted attention with its mysterious vibe, “Roots World,” and “Ppuri Ppajja Piji! (Let’s Uproot Piji!)” by the “Cheat Key” team, are shared on the Global Game Jam site and Gempy, and anyone can play these games.

FromTheRed CEO Seosangwook said, “2022 was a valuable time to evaluate the skills and passion of domestic game developers in the global market. Having personally participated in game programs and networking held in France, Finland, and the United Arab Emirates, I confirmed the high competitiveness of domestic game developers. Furthermore, this event reminded me that the purpose of founding FromTheRed is to promote the skills of domestic game developers to the global market and directly connect them to revenue.”

He added, “This event was successfully completed with the help of Purplus, which operates the color tendency analysis platform PlayColors sharing the same goal of ‘broadening the horizons of indie game developers,’ Lumiere, a female-oriented visual novel game specialist developer, Aftertime, a game content developer, and Blackstone, a game sound specialist company.”

Gempy plans to hold an after-party in February for Global Game Jam participants to share and interact with each other’s games. Thereafter, it will regularly host networking parties for domestic and international game jams and game people, providing continuous opportunities and venues for exchange to establish a developer- and team-centered game development culture.

For more details, please check Gempy.

This content was produced with the assistance of AI translation services.