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Well, it finally happened! After 9 years of Unity dominance, Godot was the most used game engine for GMTK Game Jam 2026 submissions. 🤖 Godot - 47% 🎮 Unity - 34% 🛠️GameMaker - 5% 🚀 Unreal Engine - 3% ✨ Other - 11%

Pie chart showing game engines used to create 10,511 GMTK Game Jam games in 2026. Godot has the largest slice with 47%. Then Unity with 34%. Other with 11%. Game Maker with 5%. And Unreal Engine with 3%.

It's not a competition, obviously - but it's absolutely bananas that GMTK Game Jam 2026 actually received more submissions than this year's Global Game Jam. That makes GMTK the biggest game jam in existence. (Maybe GGJ allowing AI-generated submissions put some devs off... who knows?)

Time extend! To account for issues with late submissions, the jam has received an extra 1 hour added to the original submission time. This is not time for you to add extra features or bugfix. This is to help those who had slow builds or issues with submitting to itch get their games in!

24 hours to go for GMTK Game Jam! Don't wait for the very last minute when itch.io's servers will crash and burn! Get something uploaded NOW. You can always update it before the jam ends. Over 1000 games have already been submitted - be like them! itch.io/jam/gmtk-jam...

GMTK Game Jam 2026

A game jam from 2026-07-22 to 2026-07-31 hosted by Game Maker's Toolkit. This year's theme The GMTK Game Jam 2026 theme is COUNT DOWN. It's up to you how you interpret the theme. It could be a countdo...

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We want to entertain a billion people a day. There should be an Xbox in every house. We want to replace schools with Minecraft. Master Chief should visit my house and give me a little kiss on the nose.

Some schools / universities ask you to put in extracurricular hours. You may be able to use the GMTK Game Jam for this! All students can request an official certificate of participation, once the jam is finished. Form here - gamemakerstoolkit.com/game-jam-cer...

Game Jam Certificate

GMTK Game Jam Academic Certificate Some academic institutions require students to perform extracurricular work. You may be able to use your time in the GMTK Game Jam for this. If you are a student …

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