Tori Ghanem, Josh Jacob and Devon Greer cruise through campus at NHTI on Friday afternoon in the shadow of signs directing them to several places where higher education happens or places where food is served to people between quests for higher education.
Tori Ghanem, Josh Jacob and Devon Greer cruise through campus at NHTI on Friday afternoon in the shadow of signs directing them to several places where higher education happens or places where food is served to people between quests for higher education.

For the ninth year, Concord’s community college will be a host site of a worldwide video game development event called the Global Game Jam, and anybody – not just NHTI students – can participate.

The event will take place on the weekend of January 20-22, when programmers, artists and musicians gather at NHTI, Concord’s Community College, to create a game from scratch within 48 hours. Held simultaneously at more than 500 sites in over 80 countries, the Global Game Jam brings together teams who collaborate to create games given the same basic theme and technical constraints.

NHTI has been a host site since the GGJ began in 2009.

Anyone who would like to join the Game Jam at NHTI should contact Prof. Greg Walek at gwalek@ccsnh.edu.

There is no entrance fee, and the public is invited to drop by Little Hall at around 5 p.m. Sunday for showings of the finished games.

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