The best game ideas to compete high up in the mountains: HüttenJam at 1,700 metres above sea level

This year, the Alpine village Turrach is the venue for the HüttenJam, which is jointly organised by the Game Development Graz Association and the University of Klagenfurt. Creative game developers will meet there from 13 to 16 April 2023 to brainstorm new game concepts over the course of 48 hours.  

“Plenty of fresh air to fuel fresh game ideas, that was our original inspiration for the HüttenJam, which we launched in 2019,” as the organiser Mathias Lux from the Department of Information Technology at the University of Klagenfurt tells us. Roughly 50 imaginative and enthusiastic jammers are expected to attend this year. They will be assigned a theme at the start of the event, and they will be tasked with developing a game based on this theme over the following 48 hours. The teams are made up of the people who invent and tell the stories, those who create the graphics and those who facilitate the technical implementation.

Then, the teams have until the Presentations & Game Night to complete their game. The event is organised by the Game Development Graz Association and the University of Klagenfurt. Many of the participants will once again be students from the Master’s degree programme “Game Studies and Engineering”, which draws game enthusiasts from all over the world to Klagenfurt.