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Raritan Valley Community College’s experience in Global Game Jam 2025 was a huge success, with 25 registered participants creating 11 video games over the January 24-26 weekend.  This year’s Game Jam theme focused on “bubbles.”

The RVCC teams featured Game Development alumni from 2010-2024, as well as current students. One participant had just started his first Game Development class at RVCC earlier that week, and he was able to create a working prototype for a video game by Saturday night.

The Branchburg-based College was one of 795 sites around the world hosting the Game Jam. In total, more than 12,000 games were made by over 35,000 people in 97 countries during the recent weekend. The RVCC teams’ games may be viewed and downloaded at https://globalgamejam.org/group/12179/games.

RVCC offers two degrees for students interested in Game Design and Development: an Associate of Science in Game Art and an Associate of Applied Science Degree in Game Development.

Students in the College’s Game Art and Game Development programs work with Unity™ and the Unreal Engine™ on NVIDIA RTX GPUs. The RVCC game lab supports industry-compatible production pipelines for games and real-time computer graphics for a variety of technologies, including motion capture for character animation. Projects can be deployed to desktop, console, mobile devices, or a number of VR/AR headsets, including the Meta Quest 2 and Microsoft Hololens 2.

For information about the RVCC Global Game Jam or the College’s Game Development and Game Art programs, contact William Crosbie, Associate Professor, Arts & Design, at william.crosbie@raritanval.edu or visit https://www.raritanval.edu/academic-programs/academic-departments/arts-and-design.

To learn more about the Global Game Jam, visit www.globalgamejam.org.

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January 30, 2025

Media contact: Donna Stolzer, 908-526-1200, ext. 8383

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