Before you actually go to globalgamejam.org and click on "Start a Jam Site" button (available from late September/early October each year), make sure you have secured a venue for your jam site. If you are still negotiating with the venue management on whether they are going to let you use the space or not, or if you are still seeking a suitable location and have nothing concrete yet, we won't be able to further process and approve your site.
After you've secured a venue, simply click on the "Start a Jam Site" button, and then fill the essential fields in the form. Please be prepared to fill the following items:
Jam site name
A picture of the venue or your choice of logo to represent your jam site (optional, but very nice to have).
Address (essential) and building name (optional).
Your jam site details including:
Almost all of these are optional, as it depends on how "formal" you want your site to be -- we won't disqualify your site because of the lack of these. You are also able to come back and add these later as you confirm them.
Participation details to let your jammers know how to signup with you and/or if there are any specific rules or notices you have for your jam site. The help texts on the form should be able to help you filling these.
There is space on the form to link to previous GGJ sites that you have organised, and also give us a brief description of your past GGJ and general event organising experience. This will be shared with our Regional Organiser team only, and will not be made public.
Filling your contact email and phone number on the application is required, and again will not be shared publicly. This will be used by your regional organiser to contact you, and by GGJ staff if there is a emergency, so please make sure that these are active and something you check frequently!
Read through GGJ Organiser Responsibility Statement carefully and sign your name if you agree.
Finally, at the bottom of the page, we usually setup "Registration Closed" by default so that after your site gets approved, you can choose when to actually start accepting participants.
After you've completed and submitted the form, usually within one week, you will be contacted by one of the GGJ Regional Organisers for an on-boarding interview. There are a few reasons we do this: