# Structure of the event ### Fixed deadlines These are the important deadlines set by GGJ that you **must** adhere to. Please keep these in mind throughout the event. All times listed mean the local time to your location. #### Take a register, make sure each jammer has a GGJ account, remove any no shows **This must be done by Saturday, 11am** Work with your volunteer team to make sure each jammer has created an account on the GGJ website, and is marked as attending your site. This is critical, else there will be problems later when they try to create a game project. Manually remove any jammers signed up to your site who are not in physical attendance. **This is a strict GGJ rule.** #### Create a placeholder game project and add team members **This must be done by Saturday, 3pm** One member of each team must log in to the GGJ website, go to your site's page, and then click on 'New Game Project' in the righthand menu. Fill out a few fields in the Game Project page, such as the title of the game, and maybe a 1-sentence description (these can always be changed later), and save. After the Game Project is created, add all of the team members who have worked, or are working on the game. Do this by clicking "Add contributors" in the game page under the credits section. #### Upload the final game **This must be FINISHED by Sunday, 5pm.** We recommend you advise your jammers to start uploading at 3pm or earlier, as the website can be very slow at these times! Get your jammers to finish filling out all the game project information, and upload the files. We would also love it if they included a game play video as part of this project. **See this part of the guide on how to do this. <--- TODO!** ### Suggested event timetable | Rough time | Task | | -------------------- | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | | **Day 1 : Friday** | | | 14:00 - 19:00 | Registration / jammer check in | | 16:00 - 17:00 | Talks/Keynotes | | 17:00 - 18:00 | Welcome announcements and Keynote video | | 18:00 - 19:00 | Getting to know each other / ice breakers / group forming | | 19:00 - 20:00 | Dinner and social time | | 20:00 - 21:00 | Group pitches - what is each group planning to make | | 21:00 onwards | Teams start jamming | | **Day 2 : Saturday** | | | 09:00 - 10:00 | Breakfast | | 11:00 - 12:00 | Check in with all jammers and make sure they have an account on the GGJ website, and set up a game project page together by this time | | 13:00 - 14:00 | Lunch | | 17:00 - 18:00 | Playtest each other's games | | 18:00 - 19:00 | Social/break out activity | | 19:00 - 20:00 | Dinner and social time | | **Day 3 : Sunday** | | | 09:00 - 10:00 | Breakfast | | 11:00 - 13:00 | Crunch/Last push | | 13:00 - 14:00 | Lunch | | 15:00 - 17:00 | Game uploads to the GGJ website | | 17:00 - 19:00 | Short presentations - each team does a short presentation or game play video to show the group | | 19:00 - 20:00 | Clean up and close | --- # Agent Instructions: Querying This Documentation If you need additional information that is not directly available in this page, you can query the documentation dynamically by asking a question. Perform an HTTP GET request on the current page URL with the `ask` query parameter: ``` GET https://global-game-jam.gitbook.io/ggj-manual/next-steps/structure-of-the-event.md?ask= ``` The question should be specific, self-contained, and written in natural language. The response will contain a direct answer to the question and relevant excerpts and sources from the documentation. Use this mechanism when the answer is not explicitly present in the current page, you need clarification or additional context, or you want to retrieve related documentation sections.