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Global Game Jam | 29th – 31st Jan 2021

Joint post with the NI Game Dev Network Farset Labs has hosted Northern Ireland’s only public site of the international “Global Game Jam” hackathon for the past 8 years, and this year they’re bringing it back – again – virtually.  In the face of ‘unprecedented times‘, while the space, events facilities, co-working facilities and new-and-improved […]

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Global Game Jam Belfast | 26th-28th Jan 2018

UPDATE 19/12/2017: Find our new poster image below! Global Game Jam at Farset is back again in 2018, in partnership with Northern Ireland Screen. The Game Jam will run from Friday 26th to Sunday 28th, and is a chance to meet some great people and develop a fun game in a weekend. With a party atmosphere from […]

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Global Game Jam 2017 | 20th-22nd January

Global Game Jam at Farset is back again in 2017, in partnership with Northern Ireland Screen.  The Game Jam will run from Friday 20th to Sunday 22nd, and is a chance to meet some great people and develop a fun game in a weekend.  With a party atmosphere from Friday night, there will be plenty […]

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Global Game Jam 2016: The Aftermath

This year’s Global Game Jam weekend exceeded our expectations once more! Congratulations again to the winning teams behind Digimancers, Witches Brew and 7 – respectively placing 1st, 2nd and 3rd in our local #GGJ16 Belfast competition, with a special mention from the judges for the beautiful The Path.

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Global Game Jam 2016 | 29th-31st January

Global Game Jam at Farset Labs is back again in 2016.  The Game Jam will run from Friday 29th to Sunday 31st January, and is a chance to meet some great people and develop a fun game in a weekend.  With a party atmosphere from Friday night, there will be plenty of people there to […]

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Global Game Jam 2015 | 23rd-25th January

Global Game Jam at Farset is back once more for 2015, in partnership with Northern Ireland Screen.  The Game Jam will run from Friday 23rd to Sunday 25th January, and is a chance to meet some great people and develop a fun game with a theme. The theme will be announced on the Friday night; there […]

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CoderDojo Postponed due to Global Game Jam

Just a quick note to clarify that CoderDojo is not on this week (today, 5:30pm), as we’re hosting our second Global Gam Jam starting from 4pm today until Sunday evening. The postponed session will take place next week (Friday 31st January) at the usual time of 5:30pm. Thanks everyone!

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Global Game Jam 2014

After a very successful event last year, Farset Labs has decided to take part for a second year in Global Game Jam. The Game Jam will run from Friday 24th to Sunday 26th January, and is a chance to meet some great people and develop a fun game with a theme. The theme will be […]

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Farset Labs to Host Global Game Jam for New World Record-Breaking Event

Here’s another first for the local tech community: Farset Labs is proud to announce becoming Belfast’s first and only official site for Global Game Jam, set this year for 25-27 January. This is the biggest event of its kind in the world and brings some big name sponsors like Microsoft, Facebook and GitHub. Farset will be […]