Build a Game.
Win Funding.
Change Africa.
30 days. One African theme. Your game. The AGAMA Game Jam is Africa's premier game development competition — built to discover, fund, and publish the next generation of African game creators.
AGAMA Jam — First Edition
UPCOMINGTheme: African Heroes
Build a game around a real African historical figure in 30 days. Celebrate the warriors, queens, scholars, and visionaries who shaped our continent.
20 December 2026 → 20 January 2027
How It Works
Sign up on AgamaPlay. Declare your theme.
30 days to build your game using any free engine.
Submit your game to AgamaPlay before the deadline.
Top games get cash, publishing, and a spotlight on Africa.
Jam Themes
Choose one. Build something Africa has never seen before.
African Heroes
Build a game around a real African historical figure — Yaa Asantewaa, Mansa Musa, Shaka, Nzinga, or anyone who shaped the continent.
African Cities
Past, present, or future. Accra, Lagos, Nairobi, Khartoum, Timbuktu. Your city. Your rules.
African Languages
Build a game that teaches or uses an indigenous African language. Twi, Ga, Hausa, Swahili, Yoruba, Zulu — there are thousands of stories waiting.
African Innovation
Africa invented, built, and traded long before the world was watching. Tell that story.
The African Future
Africa in 2125. What does it look like? Build the world your children will inherit.
Prizes
₵5,000 + Publishing Deal
Cash prize + AGAMA Studios publishing support + promoted listing on AgamaPlay homepage
₵2,000 + Publication
Cash prize + published on AgamaPlay with featured badge
₵1,000 + Publication
Cash prize + published on AgamaPlay
Published + Promoted
All top 10 games published and promoted across AGAMA channels
Rules
✅ You Must:
- •Be of African nationality or African diaspora
- •Build the game during the jam period (no pre-built games)
- •Use a free game engine (Godot, Defold, GDevelop, Phaser, or similar)
- •Submit as browser-playable HTML5
- •Satisfy at least one AGAMA framework dimension
- •Be an individual or team of max 4 people
❌ You Cannot:
- •Submit a game with foreign storylines re-skinned with African faces
- •Use AI-generated content without significant human creative direction
- •Submit games that reinforce harmful stereotypes about Africa
- •Use stolen assets or copyrighted material without permission
- •Submit a game that was started before the jam
The Game Jam is not just a competition.
It is the annual proof that Africa can build its own worlds. Register now and be among the first developers to prove it.
Register for AGAMA Jam