The NYU Game Center’s 2022 Global Game Jam site welcomed 60+ jammers from all over the country who made 16 games! Our Global Game Jam site took place on Discord and Zoom for a second year in a row, and jammers spent a cold January weekend bringing tons of energy to our digital site. Every year jammers impress us with what they are able to accomplish in just 48 hours, and this year was no exception!

We’d like to congratulate our site’s 2022 award winners:

Best Overall

Re: Live by Silverjay Studio – Alex Liu, Alex Xiong, Jack Ma, Nicole Tsoi, Joy Li, Bruce Li, Linda Chen

Best Use of Theme: Duality

Everyday Fantasy by Shibas – Sam tiam, James Liu, Alex Xu, May Chen, Kelly Wang, Tim Chen, Yuyao

Audience Choice Award

Vitality by Matt Piedra, Billy Liu & Ned Jacobs

Best Non-Digital Game

Flocking Hell by Jack Warshaw, Titus Pahn, KFPlumePal

Best Game Design

Vitality by Matt Piedra, Billy Liu & Ned Jacobs

Best Audio

Vitality by Matt Piedra, Billy Liu & Ned Jacobs

Best Visuals

Re: Live by Silverjay Studio – Alex Liu, Alex Xiong, Jack Ma, Nicole Tsoi, Joy Li, Bruce Li, Linda Chen

Narrative Excellence

Vampire Overlord 2D by Bloodlust – Adam Columbia, Bennett Garfield, Abby Yaffe, Ethan Z, Rowan Wood, Ana Green

Wild Card Award

Quick Character Creator by Hao Liao, Joey Schutz

A special thanks to this year’s incredible cohort of judges: Alexander Feigenbaum, Clarie Carre, Chris Kindred, Nolan Filter, Reynaldo Vargas, Karina Popp, Chris Wallace, Charlie Harper, Darion McCoy, Kailin Zhu, Alina Constantin, and Shikong Chen.

You can find download links to play these games and more on the NYU Game Center’s GGJ 2022 site page!