- Participation is free with registration to close on Saturday, September 7th 2024
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Jordan-based games developer and publisher Maysalward has teamed up with global development platform NEOM to launch the second edition of the Game Dev Challenge.
The second edition of the three-month STEM program – which is powered by the Maysalward team and chairman of the Jordan Gaming Task Force, Nour Khrais – will take place in Riyadh.
Following this round will be a new round based in Jeddah – the first to take place there.
High students and game developers are encouraged to participate in the free challenge before the registration deadline on Saturday, September 7th 2024.
New ways to learn
NEOM’s gaming manager Maxim de Wit took to LinkedIn to make the announcement where he describes the Game Dev challenge as “a platform for high school students to learn, design, develop and launch their own fully fledged mobile games.”
After 40 teams of students and teachers (four students plus one teacher per entry) join the program from each city, 10 teams will advance to a 60-day challenge to develop a mobile game, with the top two teams in each city winning a 40,000 SAR ($11,000) Game Lab for their school.
Maysalward recently collaborated with Minecraft Education to host the first-ever Minecraft Teachers Training workshop at their Jordan Gaming Lab.
The Jordan Gaming Lab which has been at the forefront of the games industry, recently celebrated 13 years of fostering creativity and innovation in the region.
