Global Game Jam 2017 – Jan 20-22 It’s here… It’s finally here… Global Game Jam is an event where people from around the world gather in order to produce games based on a common theme announced during the event. According to the GGJ site, 2016 had over 600 locations in 93 countries making 6866 games.…
Global Game Jam 2015 – What follows is the recap of some of the event over the weekend 1/23 – 1/25. Theme – What do we do now. Concepts came quickly with this theme. I was very pleased with the results, and tossing ideas around with the 10 people we had in attendance. 5 of…
We have talked about what Game Jams are. We have discussed who attends game jams. We have also discussed a little about rapid prototyping. Tomorrow is Global Game Jam 2015. We want to make sure your following us on Twitter to keep up to date on what’s going on throughout the day. I wanted to…
Rapid Prototyping Bonus Post – the 15 minute game design. I challenge you to make a game in 15 minutes. That’s it. What you will need – A timer, paper – blank page, grid paper card stock writing materials – pens, markers – pencils tokens – minis, dice, chips, skittles Set the timer to 15…
So we have talked a little about what a game jam is, we have also talked about who goes to a game jam. I figured we’d dive into rapid prototyping that is special to these events. Rapid prototyping is the development of immediate satisfaction, and requires you to focus down on your project. It allows…
On our last post What Is A Game Jam? we talked about what Game Jams are. Today I’d like to post who are the game jams for! The latest Ludum Dare which happened on December 5th – 8th 2014 and the theme of “Entire Game on One Screen” had over 2600 games submitted. These are…
A little over a few days till the Global Game Jam 2015 takes off. the next couple of days we will have some insights into game jams, and dig deeper into these projects. What is a Game Jam? A game jam is a game development quasi competition where game developers from all walks of skill…
It’s almost a week away and Global Game Jam is coming soon! http://globalgamejam.org/2015/jam-sites/gc-gamers-connect-global-game-jam-nebraska Doesn’t matter the level of experience you have. Come in and join a team, and see what kind of good things can come out of it. Not familiar with a game jam. I posted a little while back on my first experience…
How goes it game devs? We’re here at the Catalyst center working hard on our game jam game. We wanted to pause for a moment and give a little bit of an update and reveal the next surprise. Now while you go about your day designing this game, and working on it. I have a…
Welcome to the #GCMakeAGame2014 Game Jam. Well the blog post for it. Todays event has a couple of surprises some of which will be revealed throughout the event. Harshrealities.org The first thing of today’s event is that we are being sponsored by Harsh Realities. Harsh realities is a game development company working on several role…
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