This year we had nearly 150 jammers made 32 games at the NYU Game Center Global Game Jam Site! This year’s theme was What Home Means To You. Sunday evening, a committee of 15 judges selected games from our site for some awards! Here are the 2019 Winners:
Best Overall:
I Wanna Go Home
by Emi Schaufeld, Rachel Braga Jones, Harry Rabinowitz, Andy Bow,
Trent Garlipp, Magnolia Porter, Corrine Stein, Courtney Sanders,
Rebecca Braga Jones, Michael Fegreus
Best Game Design:
Rent Race: Strategic Eviction – The Compartment
Apartment Park Slope Simulator
by Aaron C Gaudette, Eric Gan, Jonah Senzel, Nyusha Iampolski,
Sean Park, and Demetri Sofides
Best Visuals:
Housewarming
by Kate Smith, Joel Forrester, Longkun Yang, Marcus Guimaraes, Elizabeth Castaño, Pasan Dharmasena, Michael Dellapi, and Angela Yu
Best Audio:
I Wanna Go Home
by Emi Schaufeld, Rachel Braga Jones, Harry Rabinowitz, Andy Bow,
Trent Garlipp, Magnolia Porter, Corrine Stein, Courtney Sanders,
Rebecca Braga Jones, Michael Fegreus
Best Use of Theme:
BeComing Home
by Tom Lum
Best Narrative:
Sunday
by Karina Popp
Impact Award:
That One Visa
by Kelly Chang
Audience Choice Award:
Moving Out
by Rachel Li, Siyuan Qiu
Best Game That Should Be On Looking Glass:
On My Way Back
by Milan Koerner-Safrata