🦎 About the speaker: Nils "Gecko" Munch 🦎
Game developer, Jam enthusiast and LEGO fanatic. Host of the Global Game Jam Copenhagen. He has been active in the scene for a while and has done big and small.
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The talk will take place Thursday (April 9th) 16:00 - 17:00 in the Auditorium.
🍻 The NeuroChemical Bartender 🍻
What can neurochemicals tell us about the feeling players experience during play? And can it help us concoct balanced cocktails of joy and challenge when we design and develop our games?
Join Nils at the bar and find out.
🖋️ Writing a Cozy Game about Death 🖋️
Crafting emotional narratives that connect through humor. Combining writing and programming with Yarn Spinner (the Dialogue Tool used in Dredge and Night in the Woods). Using tips and tricks for “cheap” branching and making choices matter.
He has been a streamer and a YouTuber, and he is a polymath. But above everything else, he is a Muppet.
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He has dedicated his life to studying how to improve learning (learn-to-learn), particularly in students with difficulties, to the use of media for learning purposes, and the design of serious games aiming for improving learning in formal and informal settings.
🎙️ About the speaker: Carlos Diaz 🎙️
Educational and Media Psychologist (Cand. Mag. Psy), Ph.D. in Learning Sciences. Diversity Ambassador at AAU.
The talk will also cover the topic of representation as an important way to generate engagement, empathy, and visibilisation of minorities.
The talk takes place Thursday (April 9th) 14:00 - 15:00 in the Conference Room.
🤝 Inclusion and representation in videogames: Designing for everyone 🤝
This is a small workshop and talk about designing games using the principles of universal design so that our games can be played by everyone.
🕹️ About the speaker: Chris Carvelli 🕹️
Chris is a human being playing games and arguing with computers since the last millennium. When he's not reading fantasy books he usually works in games or teaches at the IT University of Copenhagen.
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This talk takes place Thursday (April 9th) 14:00 - 15:00 in the Auditorium.
With personal experiences, funny anecdotes and horror stories, this talk will share a number of techniques and tricks learned during the years, as well as reinterpreting some well known patters for the unique conditions of game jams.
💻️ Programming Patterns for Game Jammers 💻️
The only real answer to the question "how do I structure my code" is "it depends".
But how about a useful one?
😎 About the speaker: Til Nomi 😎
Nomi makes art in 2D, 3D, videos for games and other things, founded Gæmz, a community an art/experimental games, etc., and is a big music fan & stupid logic. They've also been making flamingos for A MAZE. / Berlin for many years.
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You will really understand the power of thinking outside the box!
The talk takes place Thursday (April 9th) 13:00 - 14:00 in the Conference Room.
🕹️ Game Jam! Make some experimental games! Treat yourself! 🕹️
First Nomi will share her thoughts on how you should all treat yourself to making an experimental game during a game jam and how to approach that. Then she’ll follow up with an experimental crowd game so you get to know fellow jammers.
He has a strong belief that games are a powerful medium and that they can be more than just entertainment.
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Co-organizer of 2016 and 2017 Global Game Jam in Copenhagen. Judge for the Game Chef: Pummarola Edition from 2017 to 2019. Judge for the 2018 edition of the 200 Word RPG Challenge. Judge for the Play4Change 2021 contest.
Currently R&D + Editor for MS Edizioni, previously he worked for CMON as a Senior Game Designer. His Bachelor thesis was about the formative, didactic, and mediatic use of live-action role-playing games. His Master of Science thesis was about the presence of the designer in two-players RPGs.
✨ About the speaker: Francesco Rugerfred Sedda ✨
Currently R&D + Editor for MS Edizioni, previously he worked for CMON as a Senior Game Designer.
You will see cross-media examples from board games, tabletop RPGs, and video games in order to better understand what it is and, most importantly, how you can plan and design it to enrich and improve the player experience.
This talk takes place Thursday (April 9th) 13:00 - 14:00 in the Auditorium.
🗣️ Designing the Paragame 🗣️
What contributes to a game experience and shapes how we play it, aside from the rules and the fiction? Introducing: the Paragame.
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Thanks again for making Nordic Game Jam such a success every single year 🕹️❤️
In the case you do manage to get a ticket, you'll be able to get the T-shirt add-on with it only until March 6th. After that, we'll have T-shirts available for sale at the jam, like we always do, for the exact same price!
To that point: if you have a ticket and don't need it anymore, please cancel and refund it on Universe! This will ensure that your ticket can go to someone else. You can only ask for a refund until the Sunday before the jam starts.
❓️ I didn't buy my ticket in time, what do I do? ❓️
Go to our tickets page and join the waitlist! As people realize that they need to cancel their ticket, those tickets go on sale again. Joining the waitlist will notify you when this happens, so you'll have to snatch them up before they're gone again!
We are SOLD OUT for 2026! 🥳✨
Thank you so much everyone, this is the fastest we've sold out in years!
We're so looking forward to seeing you on April 9th-12th at AAU!
We think Kira did a great job for NGJ26, and if you do too then show some love and support for her art! 🕹️ ❤️
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You can check out Kira’s works and follow her art here: www.kira-rasmussen.com/portfolio
If you want a T-Shirt with Kira’s awesome art, grab one with your ticket for the jam at: nordicgamejam.com
❤️ Artist Spotlight ❤️
Curious to know more about the off-the-charts talented artist that created the logo of Nordic Game Jam 2026? Kira Rasmussen is a scifi horror and fantasy enthusiast, as well as a graphic storyteller, illustrator and comic book creator based in Copenhagen.
