ICGJ is an interdisciplinary conference that welcomes educators, researchers, professionals, and event organizers across various fields related to game jams and hackathons. You can check the previous ICGJ proceedings available in the ACM Digital Library: https://dl.acm.org/conference/icgj

Additional information for authors including a full topic list can be found here: https://icgj26.gameconf.org/authors

Submission Guidelines

All papers must be original and not simultaneously submitted to another journal or conference. The following paper categories are welcome:

Full Papers: Full papers should be 6-8 pages long (excluding references), ready for publication in the conference proceedings.

Short Papers and Posters: Short papers and Poster submissions should be no more than 4 pages long (excluding references). Short papers that indicate so, can be considered for poster presentations in case they are not accepted as oral presentations.

Instructions for Poster presentation formats will be sent to accepted submissions. ICGJ is committed to handling all printing and mounting for the poster session.

Event Reports: Game jam or hackathon event reports are for organizers and scholars who want to present on a past game jam or a hackathon event, or series of events. Reports should highlight lessons learned and provide guidelines about event format, dynamics and organization. The evaluation will be based on the quality of the observations and discussions and the value or usefulness for other organizers or scholars. Event Reports should be no more than 4 pages (excluding references), ready for publication in the conference proceedings.

Full and short paper submissions will undergo a double-blind review process (i.e., identification of authors or their institutions must not appear anywhere in the submission’s text).

The previous conference proceedings have been published in the ACM Digital Library, the same is expected for 2026 pending ACM approval. Paper submissions should use the double column ACM template which is available at https://www.acm.org/publications/taps/word-template-workflow. These submissions need to be anonymized (remove all authors and affiliations) and uploaded to EasyChair before the deadline.

Event report submissions will undergo a single-blind review process (i.e., identification of authors have to be in the text of the report). Accepted submissions will be published in the ACM Digital Library as short papers. Report submissions should use the double column ACM template which is available at https://www.acm.org/publications/taps/word-template-workflow. These submissions do NOT need to be anonymized. They should be uploaded to EasyChair before the deadline.

For LaTeX users, please use the following to enable the double-column format in the ACM template:

\documentclass[sigconf,authordraft]{acmart}

Committees

A complete list of organizing/program committee can be found here: https://icgj26.gameconf.org/committee

Venue

The conference will be held in:

Pace University - New York City

Seidenberg School of Computer Science and Information Systems

15 Beekman St - New York, NY 10038  (9th Floor)

Additional venue information can be found here: https://icgj26.gameconf.org/venue

Contact

If you have any questions, you can find information for the various organizers/committees here: https://icgj26.gameconf.org/committee