About the project
Turkic Game Jam is a pan-Turkic game development competition connecting developers across Azerbaijan, Türkiye, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Hungary and Northern Cyprus. Every local stage feeds into a Grand Finale, with teams building games rooted in shared Turkic cultural heritage.
We have co-organised the Azerbaijan stage for two years running, alongside IGDA Azerbaijan and Gamepons. The 2026 edition was a 48-hour jam with 75+ participants, five to six mentors, four coordinators and a three-person jury — finishing with 19 completed games.
The 2026 themes — Ceremony, Nomad, Knot, Sky, Fire — were chosen to push teams toward work that felt culturally grounded rather than generic. The whole stage ran on HackathonHost, from registration and team formation through jury scoring to certificates.
Outcomes
- Two Azerbaijan stages delivered, in consecutive years
- 19 finished games from the 2026 edition
- 75+ participants, mentors, jury and coordinators on one platform
- Azerbaijani teams carried through to the pan-Turkic Grand Finale
Partner of IGDA Azerbaijan