In honour of TOJam's 20th anniversary we're showcasing 20 games from across TOJam's history at the Toronto Games Week Closing Celebration! Going back all the way to the very first jam! Wow! Come celebrate with us! Grab your ticket at the link below! 🎮 luma.com/ccsakubc 🎮

In honour of TOJam's 20th anniversary we're showcasing 20 games from across TOJam's history at the Toronto Games Week Closing Celebration! Going back all the way to the very first jam! Wow! Come celebrate with us! Grab your ticket at the link below! 🎮 luma.com/ccsakubc 🎮

Toronto Games Week is kicking off on the 11th! We'll even be showcasing some TOJam games at their closing celebration from all across TOJam history! To celebrate we're giving away 20 tickets to the TGW Closing Celebration FOR FREE! Just click below! 🎮 luma.com/ccsakubc?co... 🎮

Had a great time jamming at @torontogamejam.bsky.social last weekend with @devonxwong.bsky.social, @redrabble.bsky.social , and @millertone.bsky.social! You can play our weird little IF game, Designed For Renters, on Itch! jlevstein.itch.io/designed-for...

Designed for Renters by jlevstein

Be a good tenant and take care of your Apartment. If you don’t, bad things will happen.

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I know you've been waiting, but hold your breath no more! We now have the team photos from TOJam 2026! A big thank you to the ever talented Brendan Lynch for taking these, and a big thank you to all of YOU for being in them! 📷📷📷📷📷📷📷 drive.google.com/dri... 📷📷📷📷📷📷📷

TOJam always seems so far away after it's over... If only it was TOJam every day. Alas, such a world is still a ways away, but in the meantime we can relive those memories thanks to Paul Hillier's photos! Team photos will be coming whenever we get them! drive.google.com/dri...

In case you missed it Rob did a beautiful write up for the 20th anniversary of TOJam over on linkedin. Here's to another 20 years! 🐐 www.linkedin.com/fee... 🐐

Toronto Game Jam (TOJam) - Free 3-Day Game Making Event | Robert Segal

TO Jam (tojam.ca) turns 20 this year — 20 years of anything is remarkable. Toronto has always had incredible talent, something that became clear through meeting so many passionate people at the early IGDA Toronto Chapter meetups. I'm grateful for those who stayed until the end of every bar night and generously answered whatever questions I threw at them — Guillaume Provost , Trevor Fencott , Ryan MacLean among others. There was a shared passion to build games. Twenty years ago, if you wanted to make a game, you had to build nearly everything yourself. Unreal was prohibitively expensive, and Unity was either just getting started or not yet free — neither were the accessible tools they are today. That spirit was a big part of the inspiration behind the first iterations of TO Jam: make something — anything — in a weekend. It sounds easy. A weekend sounds and feels like a lot of time. It isn't. True for game jams and also actually making games. Myself, Jim McGinley , Emilie McGinley and Nelson Yu got together and tried a a “test” jam to see if it could be done. It worked well enough that we said this could work for real. Now hundreds, thousands(?) have also proven this. If you're participating this year, take a moment to thank the volunteers and organizers! A few kind words go a long way during what can be an incredibly stressful event. Nothing endures without the support of a community — people who simply get things done out of pure passion for the craft. Organization and support of TO Jam has always been volunteer based. I wanted to make a long list of everyone but it would quite honestly be immense and several pages long. A few immediate callouts from the early years when I was more involved. Tessa Segal, Alex Bethke, Paul Forest, Andrew Traviss, Jonathan Remedios, Jenny Glozman, PhD, RP, RMFT Arthur Marris Thank you to everyone who has volunteered their time over the years. Special thanks to JP Amore of George Brown College (and former co-student at TMU Comp Sci.) for always supporting the vision of the jam; Ron Smith of Innovation Toronto for hosting TO Jam 2 and 3; and Gorm Lai , founder of Nordic Game Jam, who showed up at ToJam 3 (or 4?) to engage in our ongoing friendly rivalry over who ran the biggest single-location game jam in the world. Here’s to 20 years of jammin’! #tojam #toronto #videogames #ontario #canada

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AAAAAAAND TIME! That's it! We're done! #TOJam2026 is over! Make sure you submit your games to the itch page, take a break, and then get hyped up for the open house! The hard work is over, now we celebrate everything that you've accomplished!

TOJam 2026: Twenty Years, One Weekend

A game jam from 2026-05-08 to 2026-05-17 hosted by Maggie.TOJam, Arcadim & ivewhiz. Toronto Game Jam is a FREE , annual, event where the craziest game makers in the world gather for a 3 day game making binge.. We're a pressure cooker...

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WHAT DO YOU MEAN THERE'S ONLY 2 HOURS LEFT IN THE JAM?! I'M NOT DONE YET!

Now the final day of TOJam and 3 poems have I wrote, for humour and laughs, and to honour The Goat. Furiously working on code, audio, and art, the jammers are cursing as their games fall apart. Yet in just a few hours, miracles they will create, and share their great games as we close out this date

Huh, what an oddly specific premise for a film. There's no way those things would ever overlap in real life.

If you're jamming with us In-person we're going to start our screening of HACKERS (1995) soon! Pop in that VHS tape, grab some popcorn, and join us for this #TOJam tradition!

We're about halfway through #TOJam2026, let's see what you've got! Make sure you use the #TOJam or #TOJam2026 tags so we can find your stuff! And if you post it in the #👷-work-in-progress channel on our Discord it might even show up on the ever classic TOJam slideshow!

I'm sorry! I've failed you! My brain was infected with a parasite that made me forget to mention Chop Shop Goods during our sponsor shoutout! Lets fix that! Every TOJam t-shirt you see at the jam is made by Chop Shop Goods! They've been our provider since the beginning of time❤

Twas the second day of TOJam ( @torontogamejam.bsky.social ) and this event's no joke, but as a polite reminder, in the bathrooms you can not smoke. The jammers are nestled in their seats well into their second start, and I hear tell of requests for Floaters for art. 29 hours left of the jam..

Feeling quite SUPER today… It must be the FORCE from @torontogamejam.bsky.social! Just like this fellow, make sure you’re eating well and taking care of yourselves, jammers 🥪 And have a great T.I.M.E.!

A huge shout out to Terrance Balazo (@A_R_Trivia) for hosting trivia at #TOJam2026 for it's 6th year in a row! Along with live pub quizzes on Tuesdays and Wednesdays you can also find him live on Twitch every Thursday (usually) at www.twitch.tv/anothe....

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Hi there. Another Round Trivia, the trivia you love in various bars and such, is now on this thing! Join us every Thursday starting at 7:15pm (EDT)

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GOOOOOOOD MORNING JAMMERS! It's Day 2 of #TOJam2026! Don't skip breakfast! And if you're jamming in-person remember that we can't let you in without a nametag! We wouldn't want some unknown serial killer going on a murder spree at the jam, we at least need to know their name.

A huge shout out to Terrance Balazo (@A_R_Trivia) for hosting trivia at #TOJam2026 for it's 6th year in a row! Along with live pub quizzes on Tuesdays and Wednesdays you can also find him live on Twitch every Thursday (usually) at www.twitch.tv/anothe....

AnotherRoundTrivia - Twitch

Hi there. Another Round Trivia, the trivia you love in various bars and such, is now on this thing! Join us every Thursday starting at 7:15pm (EDT)

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Discord may be dying, but that won't stop us! It's almost time for the opening speeches! Maggie's going to be kicking things off getting you the lowdown on all things jam, the life and times of goat plushies, and other hard hitting questions that the people demand answers for!

THE TIME HAS COME! At long last, #TOJam2026 is here! REJOICE! If you've registered make sure to check your email for discord access. The opening speeches don't start till 7:00 PM, but don't let that stop you from getting a head start on your game! Time is of the essence! GOOOOO!

Aaaaaaaaand that's everyone! A massive thank you once again to all our sponsors, we couldn't make TOJam happen without all of you! ❤️

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Immerse yourself in the extraordinary world of ELDEN RING, with major moments from the narrative brought to life through video montages, original lighting and sound effects, and the groundbreaking score performed live by Toronto Symphony Orchestra! roythomsonhall.mhrth...

SideFX returns as a TOJam Sponsor and offers game jammers a FREE 2-month Houdini Indie license to use before, during, and after the game jam - forms.gle/QRcvifevZj... Houdini Indie's procedural node-based workflow offers a smarter way to create high quality game art.

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