Ctrl+Alt+Disinfo Key Dates

Mark the dates! Ctrl+Alt+Disinfo will kick off in January and run through April.

From registration to when we’re announcing the winners, see the calendar below for the dates you need to know. Check back frequently in November and December as new webinars and workshop dates will be added.

November 2024

  • 4: Site Registration Opens
  • 15: Educational Resources Launch
  • 25: Weird Techniques: Parts of misinformation that have never been gamified – Webinar – Registration Here

From 15 Nov. through Jan. 11, new resources will be added to this site. The project will have regular webinars and workshops on the topics of disinformation, serious games and more.

December 2025

  • 2: Jam Registration Opens
  • 6-8: Meet us at Games Gathering in Kyiv
  • 10: Being Bad: Applying Inoculation to Game Design – Webinar – Registration Here
  • 12-13: Meet us at GDS in Prague

January 2025

Round 1: Two-Day Jam

  • 17: First possible date for UwU 2-day jam

Teams participating in Ctrl+Alt+Disinfo separately from the Global Game Jam can select any two-day window between 17-26 Jan.

  • 20-26: Global Game Jam
  • 26: First Round Jam Submission Due

Round 2: Two-Week Jam

  • 27: Two-Week Jam Starts

There will be available office hours and mentoring to support teams from 27 Jan – 8 Feb. A minimum of one in-person event is planned for in each jam country during the 2-week jam period.

February 2025

  • 9: Two-Week Jam ends
  • 10-17: Judging for $1K Microgrants

Ukrainian teams can submit their two-week game projects/prototypes for consideration for one of 20 $1,000 USD microgrants.

Round 3: Two-Month Jam

  • 18: Two-Month Jam Starts

There will be available office hours and mentoring to support teams from Feb 18-April 10, including business model mentoring. A minimum of one in-person event is planned for in each jam country during the 2-two jam period.

March 2025

Office hours and mentoring to support teams from Feb 20-April 16, including business model mentoring.

April 2025

  • 17: Two-Month Jam ends
  • 17-30: Judging

May 2025

  • 1: Eight Ukrainian finalist teams notified
  • 14-20: Ukrainian Finalists Convening (Hybrid)
  • 14-17: Convening programming
  • 18: Final pitch. Ukraine and Global Winners announced.
  • 18-20: Networking

June 2025 – March 2026

The post-jam production timeline for the winners will run from June 2025 – March 2026. Winning games will launch in Spring 2026.