{"id":39817,"date":"2015-03-30T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2015-03-30T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.beirut.com\/?p=39817"},"modified":"2023-05-23T11:14:23","modified_gmt":"2023-05-23T11:14:23","slug":"arabic-game-jam-set-to-kick-off-in-beirut","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beirut.com\/en\/39817\/arabic-game-jam-set-to-kick-off-in-beirut\/","title":{"rendered":"Arabic Game Jam Set To Kick Off in Beirut"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Arabic Game Jam kicks off in Beirut on Tuesday, March 24. This unprecedented competition-event in the Lebanese capital is one of the world-famous competitions where contestants design and develop Arabic electronic game content within a time limit of 36 hours.<\/p>\n<p>  Organized and supervised by Media Evolution, the leading Swedish games developer, this concept development competition is usually held in the southern Swedish city of Malm\u00f6 which is considered the capital of the digital industry in the Scandinavian countries. However, the Swedish company decided to set up a second version of the competition in Beirut within the company\u2019s participation in the MENA Games 2015, the Middle East and North Africa&#8217;s Online, Mobile and Console Games Conference and Exhibition organized by the International Fairs and Promotions (IFP Group), held at the Mar Mikhael Historical Train Station on Thursday, March 26 and Friday, March 27.<\/p>\n<p>  Supported by the Swedish Institute, this competition aims to bring together and showcase the innovative skills of Lebanese and Arab game developers and ultimately create business opportunities for games with Arabic content. <\/p>\n<p>  The Arabic Game Jam competition will host 33 participants from Lebanon, Jordan, Bahrain, Morocco, and other Arab countries. Each team consists of a developer and designer competing to finish the job within a period of 36 hours.<\/p>\n<p>  The names of the winners among the 33 participants from the Arab World will be announced during a ceremony at the MENA Games on Thursday, March 26.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Arabic Game Jam kicks off in Beirut on Tuesday, March 24.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":629821,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_preview_accessed":0,"footnotes":""},"tags":[879],"media-embed-type":[],"class_list":["post-39817","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog","tag-pressrelease"],"authorship":[144],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v27.3 (Yoast SEO v27.3) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Arabic Game Jam Set To Kick Off in 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