February 10, 2025
On a Friday evening in late January, dozens of video-game creators gathered on the bottom floor of Anheuser-Busch Hall on the campus of the University of Missouri–St. Louis to test their skills in the annual Global Game Jam, a truly global event with more than 35,000 “jammers” participating across 97 countries.
At UMSL, 82 creators worked in groups to build 24 different games, one of the strongest showings in the United States – the 9th-highest attendance and 7th-most games created in the country. The doors opened at A-B Hall at 5 p.m. on Jan. 24, designers started working on their games at 6:30 p.m. and submissions were due at 4 p.m. on Jan. 26.
