| Title | Global Game Jam: 5 Australian Video Games Developed in 48 hours | |
| Date | Saturday January 31 2015, @02:55PM | |
| Author | martyb | |
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| from the game-writing-game dept. | ||
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!
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