Gaming Like It’s 1927: Get Ready For Our Next Public Domain Game Jam
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It’s that time of year! Ever since works in the US finally started entering the public domain again, we’ve been hosting an annual game jam for designers to create games based on the year’s newly copyright-free works. This year, it’s Gaming Like It’s 1927!
There are lots of interesting works becoming available this year, including:
- Novels, short stories, and poems by Agatha Christie, Baroness Orczy, Hermann Hesse, Marcel Proust, Upton Sinclair, and Virginia Woolf plus the first three The Hardy Boys books
- Art by Ansel Adams, Edward Hopper, Georgia O’Keeffe, René Magritte, Salvador Dalí, and Tamara de Lempicka
- Films including The Jazz Singer, Metropolis, Napoléon, and Trolley Troubles
- Music by Béla Bartók, Ira and George Gershwin, Igor Stravinsky, Irving Berlin, Louis Armstrong, Ruth Etting, and Sophie Tucker
Check out Duke’s Public Domain Day article or Copyright Lately’s round-up for more works entering the public domain.
As usual, the contest is open to both digital and analog games of all types, as long as they are based on or incorporate materials from one or more works that enter the public domain in 2023. We have some great prizes for the winners in six different categories. The jam will be open for submissions for the entire month of January, and you can join and view the full rules, categories, and prizes on the jam page over on Itch.io — so go sign up and start thinking up ideas!
For inspiration, you can check out the winners of the jams for 1923, 1924, 1925 and 1926. We’ve always been absolutely floored by the creativity and variety of submissions from both experienced and new game designers, which have beautifully illustrated the immense value of a robust and expanding public domain. We can’t wait to see what you come up with this year!
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Comments on “Gaming Like It’s 1927: Get Ready For Our Next Public Domain Game Jam”
Leigh has been busy today. Happy holidays.
Also…
The Hammerstein and Kern musical play Show Boat enters the public domain, including all its songs (which includes “Ol’ Man River”): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Show_Boat
Tamara de Lempicka
Please note that Tamara de Lempicka’s artwork IS NOT entering the public domain. She died in 1980, so the family has the copyrights to her artwork until 2050 (by copyright law the heirs of the artist own the copyrights to the deceased artist for 70 years after their death)
Re:
This is US Public Domain, not elsewhere. In the US, if one published a work in 1927, it will enter the public domain on 1/1/2023, which is in six days. But this only applies to the US. Elsewhere, you’re right, but in the US, this only applies to works published on or before 1927, even if the author died after 1952.
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