{"id":177981,"date":"2024-08-06T02:49:34","date_gmt":"2024-08-06T00:49:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/namibia\/namibia-to-host-first-game-marathon-for-women\/"},"modified":"2024-08-06T02:49:34","modified_gmt":"2024-08-06T00:49:34","slug":"namibia-to-host-first-game-marathon-for-women","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/namibia\/namibia-to-host-first-game-marathon-for-women\/","title":{"rendered":"Namibia to Host First Game Marathon for Women"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"15\"><em>Namibia is hosting its first-ever Women&#8217;s Game Jam (WGJ) &#8211; a global game development marathon.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"13\">The event challenges participants to design and create a game in 48 hours.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"30\">The project, set for 9 to 11 August, is affiliated with the global Women&#8217;s Game Jam initiative and will occur simultaneously in several cities across Africa, Europe, and Latin America.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"23\">Participants are tasked with planning and creating a digital or analogue game based on a theme revealed at the start of the event.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"32\">Game Jam Namibia&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202408050635.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 Southern Africa <a title=\"Namibia\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/southern-africa\/namibia\/\">Namibia<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Namibia is hosting its first-ever Women&#8217;s Game Jam (WGJ) &#8211; a global game development marathon. The event challenges participants to design and create a game in 48 hours. The project, set for 9 to 11 August, is affiliated with the global Women&#8217;s Game Jam initiative and will occur simultaneously in several cities across Africa, Europe, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":177982,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn08.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[723],"tags":[258,256,8500,6937,5150,4706,724,257,254,6524],"class_list":["post-177981","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-namibia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-game","tag-host","tag-marathon","tag-namibia","tag-namibia-news","tag-news","tag-south-africa-today","tag-women"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn08.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177981","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=177981"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177981\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/177982"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=177981"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=177981"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=177981"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}