Video game creators from across the world are emerging from a 48-hour programming frenzy in which they create games from scratch as part of a global creativity project. The games were uploaded to the Global Game Jam's [GGJ] website at the end of the "lock-in". Organisers of the event said the jam was an intellectual challenge designed to "stimulate collaboration" but it was not a competition.
According to Global Game Jam's official site:
We had another record-breaking year at Global Game Jam. 28,837 people registered for 518 jam sites in 78 countries and 5438 games were produced. We estimate actual in-person participation to be about 21,000 people, based on registered team members and known number of organizers.
Their FAQ notes:
The GGJ brings together talented individuals from within your community. It is a unique opportunity for people to push their skills and challenge their way of working. Participants work concurrently with developers around the globe; we rally around a central theme, and then have 48 hours to create a game. It's our hope that we will see some very experimental realized prototypes that you can continue to work on after the jam. Many games developed in previous Game Jams have become fully realized games. The GGJ is open source, hardware & software agnostic and all projects are protected under a Creative Commons license. We encourage people to try out new ideas and push themselves, within reason. We also strongly encourage participants to remember to eat and sleep, to stay at their best!
Now that the game jam has completed, you can just go to their games page and check out the new games, yourself!
(Score: 4, Insightful) by wonkey_monkey on Saturday January 31 2015, @03:32PM
Yahoo apparently still hasn't quite figured out teh interwebs. From the article:
_For the full list of games head to the Global Game Jam website_
Gee, if only there was some convenient way of providing quick access to that website, a "link" if you will...
Now that the game jam has completed, you can just go to their games [globalgamejam.org] page and check out the new games, yourself!
See? This guy gets it.
The headline's not great either. There were actually 144 games produced in Australia, with the 5 in question apparently just being someone's picks. And why are we singling out the Aussies?
systemd is Roko's Basilisk
(Score: 2, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday January 31 2015, @09:29PM
See? This guy gets it.
thanks to martyb for adding that and cleaning up my original shitty submission. i've been working on the irc submission script lately in an effort of improve submission quality while still maintaining some level of laziness
why are we singling out the Aussies?
cos the submitter in this case in strayan and reads strayan news. its kinda similar to how a lot of submissions by americans are about america. fair point though and if i didn't suck at making submissions so much i'd probably try to internationalize it more. also, i generally only submit things when the queue is low and in this case it was just before leaving for work so editing wasn't high on the priority list.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday February 01 2015, @11:49AM
would be really nice.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday February 01 2015, @10:41PM
yeah a way to filter out stuff I don't want, like .net and maciphonepad, would be nice