Posted: 2010 January 29 | Author: Kevin | 1 Comment »
The Madison site has two teams moving ahead. Check out the live stream in one of the rooms on the Global Game Jam’s site.
Gaydos edit: Expect pictures soon
Posted: 2009 October 7 | Author: Kevin | Tags: h1n1 | 1 Comment »
The Saturday theme was H1N1, and the jammers created a number of games designed to keep people healthy. From a pedometer-based health race to a game of life in diseased times, we spread the joy of play throughout the first floor of TEB.
Posted: 2009 September 24 | Author: Kevin | Tags: flashlight tag | No Comments »
The first jam of the season was “Flashlight Tag”, which surprisingly did not leave any participants with injuries due to running around in the dark. It did, however, involve deception, balls, cards, and perhaps a lightbulb fatality. And a few new participants––welcome!
Posted: 2009 September 13 | Author: gaydos | 1 Comment »
For starters, welcome back for the 2009/2010 academic year, glad to see you all returning for another year of game design.
We’ll be holding jams on a different schedule than last semester to accommodate the flash/action(Flaction)script class. We’ll be meeting on the first saturday from 1pm -3pm and third thursday from 430-630 of every month starting this week! This thursday, a post-game jam, GLS social will also happen.
-Matt
Posted: 2009 May 8 | Author: Kevin | Tags: design documents | No Comments »
The end of the semester = busy game designers. There’s no game design jam this weekend. Instead, take a look at Applied Game Design’s comments on game design documents.
Posted: 2009 April 25 | Author: gaydos | No Comments »
Unfortunately, video evidence is not available for this past week’s game jam, so I’ll be writing a play-by-play instead. I know, I know, it’s not the same but really, you just need to attend : ) these post-hoc write ups just don’t do justice.
Instead of following our previous format of: picking a topic, brainstorming, and jamming for a hour, we shook this past week’s jam up, mixed it with a spoon, and served it on a bagel. First, everyone played go fish … or at least tried to remember what the rules were since most of us haven’t tried playing since we were 10 years old. Once we all agreed on a set of rules, everyone broke into groups or worked alone in order to design a variant of go fish - they used the rules as a basis for a game. The results? Slightly too graphic to post verbatim. Whoops.
Here’s the breakdown in the order played:
Suzanne & Sarah: Zombies & Pirates. Pillaging, Brains, head-wounds and booty.
Damiana & Brendan: Fish your neighbors. Take their stuff. In addition to getting “resources” you might also get “pollution.” Four resources and you’ve scored, but four pollution and your country’s in for a natural disaster. Better keep an eye out for “green” aces to clean up your stuff!
Matt: Library edutainment. Collect one of each resource before you’re bored to death!
Kevin: Ryan Martinez presents “courtship”
Ryan: Kevin Harris
(We can only guess why Kevin and Ryan made games named after each other. Who knew they were best of friends?)
Posted: 2009 April 20 | Author: Kevin | No Comments »
After nearly a month with no game jamming, we will be back on April 25th. See you in 138!