The 2025 Techquity National Game Jam has just ended and it was another amazing event with major success for some Burnside Teams
Over 150 games were submitted to the game jam throughout the year and the final jam had 87 brilliant entries. Public voting was once again one of the primary methods for finding the best, and nearly 1000 ratings were cast over two weeks of voting.
This year, our guest judges were thoroughly impressed with the quality of the top entries and found it hard to disagree with the majority of the public voting. With some debate, the judges decided on the following special awards:
Best Overall– Kitchen Chaos
By Hayden Clemence, Ben Blackie and Aine O’Connor
Most Polished– Soul Courier
By Miguel Monreal and Isaac Latimer and Xander Hales
Best Gameplay– Goblin Path
By Sho Wadamori
Best Arcade Game– Cloud Game
By Rick Wang
Best Use of Theme– Thing Deliverer
By Leon Wu
Most accomplished– Sons of Delivery
By Olly Kitcheman and Benson Lee
Most Expansive– Boxes (John Paul College Rotorua)
Well done to all those students and schools and teachers who took part in the game jam and we look forward to running it again next year.
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udges this year:
Oliver Coates- Independent Game Developer and contractor, teaching assistant at the University of Canterbury’s Interactive Game Design Course and vice President of the Christchurch Game Developers Association.
Samuel O’Sullivan- Passionate game development advocate and teacher of interactive game design at Burnside HS. Content creator and founding member of Techquity.
Steve Rodkiss- DTTA Executive Committee member and Techquity content creator. And he has a secret double life as SRCoder on YouTube.
