Philly Game Mechanics is a project of CultureTrust Greater Philadelphia, a charitable 501(c)(3) trust supporting diverse cultural practices in the Philadelphia region. We focus on supporting and growing the game development and enthusiast community in Philadelphia. We provide events, resources and networking opportunities for artists, musicians, programmers and all sorts of creatives. We believe in providing a safe space for students, hobbyists, and professionals to create. We think that community visibility and collaboration provides value not only for the immediate community but to the whole city.
Philly prided itself on jamming every single month for 5 years then we burnt out and now its every other month! We've been jamming non-stop since 2014! Philly Game Mechanics is a twice-a-month event geared towards anyone interested in playing or creating games. Our goal is to bring folks from all over Philadelphia to make and play games together no matter who they are or what they do!
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Philly's Global Game Jam 2017 submissions
Make a game inspired by some or all of Hieronymus Bosch's Garden of Earthly Delights !
Philly Game Jam is a yearly in person sometimes 24 sometimes 48 hour jam hosted by Philly Dev Night. This year the jam was hosted at WebJunto in Northern Liberties and the theme for each participant was determined by pulling a theme from a...
Pick a What If question at what-if.xkcd.com (there are 150) or ponder one of your own Make a game that explores something ordinary in an extraordinary way Challenge: Base your hypothetical reality in as much plausibility and fact as possibl...
Toy Jam is a anti-game jam. Participants had to make an enjoyable product with no rules or winning/losing condition. Take a break and enjoy some not-game games!
We lost our home with the Philly Game Forge closing but we must jam on. This jam is about leaving the familiar behind and finding yourself in world that is deeply other. Things do not appear or behave as expected. Your long-held models of h...
The theme of the Dev Night this month is: Frenemy . Playing games together raises the stakes of those games. People are deeply social animals, and winning, losing, competing and cooperating with one another is powerful and compelling elemen...
Here are the constraints: Analog Games Materials: Must have a value of less than $5. This means that every object your game uses must have been purchased or be purchasable for less than $5 dollars total. You can already own it, but subtract...
As many games as we could collect from the pre-itch days of Philly Dev Night. Can you believe we've been jamming EVERY MONTH SINCE 2011?!?!