Work hard, play hard will be the motto of students, lecturers and game designers at Abertay University in Dundee this weekend.
They will all be taking part in a global 48-hour game jam, where programmers around the world will conceive and then create brand new games in just two days.
The Global Game Jam is an international event where game developers are set a theme to inspire their games.
Last year over 4000 new games were created in one weekend, with 488 locations hosting game jams in 72 different countries.
The Global Game Jam is focused on encouraging collaboration and creativity and is not a competition.
Ryan Locke, Abertay University lecturer and event organiser, said: “Game jams are a very exciting way of bringing people with different creative skills together, and working together to build something new and exciting in a short period of time.
“The Global Game Jam is a particularly exciting event as it’s focused on creativity rather than competition, and each year’s theme always pushes our participants to use their skills in new, expressive ways.”
The jam starts at 6pm on Friday and runs until 6pm on Sunday January 25.
Ryan added: “Although it’s a two-day event we don’t encourage anyone to work through the night, as it’s not a responsible or safe way of working. Anyone working long hours will always see the quality and creativity of their work rapidly decrease.
“The jam is all about fun and creativity, harnessing the phenomenal talent of Dundee’s game development community. I can’t wait to play the dozens of weird and wonderful new games that will be developed this weekend.”