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Gaming LIke It's 1929

Public Domain Game Jam 2025
A new year means new material entering the public domain! Starting January 1st 2025, works from 1929 are free to use and remix (except for sound recordings, which are only free from 1924 and earlier).

This is the sixth annual jam in the 'Gaming Like it's 192X' series. You can see submissions from the 1928, 1927, 1926, 1925, 1924, 1923 jams. This year, we're continuing the tradition and celebrating works from 1929. Make games that are about or inspired by these works.

Works entering the public domain can be used, adapted, or reproduced without getting permission or paying a fee.

Some of the works entering on January 1, 2025:

In film, Mickey Mouse speaks his first words and the Marx Brothers star in their first feature film
The song Singin' in the Rain
Books:
William Faulkner: The Sound and the Fury
Ernest Hemingway: A Farewell to Arms
Virginia Woolf: A Room of One's Own
Ellery Queen (Frederic Dannay and Manfred B. Lee): The Roman Hat Mystery