- Zoud GameLab has a shared prize and funding pool of as much as $140,000.
- The occasion is open worldwide to creators of all ranges and backgrounds.
- A pre-jam studying programme will start on September fifteenth.
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Global Game Jam and Abu Dhabi-based Zoud have launched Zoud GameLab, a global sport jam difficult builders and creators to construct video games round monetary literacy, PocketGamer.biz can reveal.
The digital occasion will run from October fifteenth to November fifteenth, 2026 and is open to creators worldwide, together with builders, designers, artists, writers and studios of all expertise ranges.
With as much as $140,000 in prizes and improvement help obtainable, a pre-jam studying programme will start on September fifteenth, offering monetary literacy sources, knowledgeable periods and sport improvement steerage.
The prize and funding pool will help the very best general sport, runner-up and third place, alongside awards for monetary literacy influence, regional views and gameplay.
Constructing with objective
Members might be anticipated to combine monetary literacy meaningfully into their video games, with this forming a part of the judging standards. These competing for the highest awards should additionally submit a undertaking finances as a part of the problem.
Members could have entry to webinars and workshops, a devoted information to creating monetary literacy video games, curated sources and drop-in or one-to-one periods with material consultants all through the jam.
“Recreation jams are the right automobile to interact builders in tackling complicated, real-world subjects in inventive methods,” stated World Recreation Jam government director Maria Burns Ortiz.
“Monetary literacy is precisely the form of problem that may push jammers to suppose in a different way about each design and influence.”
Zoud program director Natalia El Menhall commented: “Via Zoud GameLab, we’re tapping into the creativity of sport creators around the globe to discover how monetary ideas will be dropped at life by play.
“We additionally hope to see robust participation from builders throughout the UAE and the area, bringing native views to the video games and concepts that emerge.”
The winners are anticipated to be introduced in mid-December 2026, with registration obtainable by Zoud’s GameLab web site.