The seventh consecutive year that the Information Technology Institute (ITI) of the Ministry of Communications and Information Technology held the Run Double Jump 2022 Electronic Games came to a conclusion. Activities for electronic game creators are held during Run Double Jump 2022 under the direction of the IGDA Egypt Chapter, which is also responsible for organising Global Game Jam, the largest hackathon that focuses on creating electronic games globally.
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According to Heba Saleh, director of the ITI Institute of ITI, the activities of Run Double Jump 2022, which are being hosted by the institute, are intended to support the growth of the electronic games industry, one of the most promising in the field of information technology, as well as what it stands for as a soft power that helps to shape our children’s and youth’s moral sensibilities.
Heba Saleh added that the events take place over a full day and that each of the model companies evaluates the game that has been created so that the players from the game practitioners vote to select the best of them. This is provided that a jury for several electronic gaming experts and with the participation of representatives from the Institute of IT ITI by selecting another winner.
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The hackathon’s objective, according to Yasmine Diab, Director of the Interactive Media & Game Development Academy at the IT Institute (ITI), is to help the electronic game sector.
More than 22 independent “Indie Game Developer” games were presented to the Hakathon, Diab continued, and they were divided up among 12 casual companies, of which two were selected as winners, provided that the jury also selected the winner to receive the technical assistance and advice required to help the team improve the game.
According to Diab, the Sayes game was voted the greatest game by the participants, while the panel selected the game (Necrowave) as the best participation game among the cross-off firms.
For his part, Saif Abdel Baqi, a founding partner of “Kwik Sand,” a startup taking part in the hackathon, noted that such activities help people gain experiences and exchange experiences with other people who produce video games.
“It is one of the fighting games that provides the best in terms of graphics in terms of the actual reality, and the game portrays the Egyptian identity, as it embodies the efforts made by the Egyptian army in the face of terrorism,” said Abdel-Baqi while describing the game developed by the company.
” It is worth noting that the activities of Run Double Jump 2022 were held at the Institute of Information Technology Institute (ITI) with the aim of supporting the electronic games development industry, and the development of startups in this field, and participated in the jury and organization company 2024 to develop electronic games, which is one of the companies founded by a group of graduates of the Institute of Information Technology It is a young company, as is Instinct Games, one of the top producers of video games in Egypt.
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The Institute of Information Technology completes the electronic games Run Double Jump 2022.
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