SEOUL, KOREA - Nexon announced on January 17 that it would sponsor the “Global Game Jam 2014 Pangyo”that will be held for three days from January 24 to 26.
Organized by the Global Game Jam Inc.(http://globalgamejam.org), the Global Game Jam 2014 Pangyo is the world’s largest independent game development event. This year marks the sixth anniversary for the Global Game Jam Pangyo.
The gamers’ event attracted 16,700 developers from 300 cities in 63 countries and displayed more than 3,000 games.The Global Game Jam 2014 Pangyo, which will beheld at Nexon’s headquarters building in Bundang, southern suburb of Seoul,will be managed by the students of game-related curriculum clubs at KAIST (Haje),Postec (G-Pos), Seoul National University (SNUGDC), Yonsei University (POOLC)and Ewha Womans University (King).
During the 48 hours of the event, the participants are invited to form teams with game developers and create games under the theme that will be revealed on the opening day. With this, the participants can have the opportunity to make creative games through cooperation with game developers.