ScreenAnarchy (blog)
MOTELX 2018: Rangers, Tigers and Demon Bikers Among First Wave of Titles For Lisbon Horror Film Festival
ScreenAnarchy (blog)
Another absolute novelty is the first Horror Game Jam in collaboration with the Lusófona University, a competition of creation of horror games that will last 48h. Another unprecedented moment in the Warm-Up will be a Drive-In screening in the center of ...

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Pocket Gamer.Biz
New venue for Pocket Gamer Connects Helsinki 2018
Pocket Gamer.Biz
Pocket Gamer Connects Helsinki has made its home from home in Helsinki's Wanha Satama venue for four glorious years since launching in 2014. Last year was our biggest ever, with delegate numbers growing over 25 per cent year on year for 2017.

Google News

Chinese Game Developers Come Together at Game Jam China
China Film Insider
On July 6, 3 hours before the start of Game Jam China organized by China Indie Game Alliance (CiGA)—one of China's largest gaming and developers' communities—there were around 20 developers already sitting in the jamming venue for Beijing. Talking ...

Misiones OnLine
Global Game Jam, desde este martes en el Centro del Conocimiento
Misiones OnLine
Global Game Jam es un evento dedicado a la confección y armado de videojuegos organizado por Educ.ar y la Fundación Argentina de Videojuegos (FUNDAV) y se realizará del 17 al 21 de junio de la mano de Infinito x Descubrir, para adolescentes de 12 ...

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Kotaku
The ArenaNet Catastrophe Has The Whole Game Industry Rethinking Harassment Policies
Kotaku
Through things like the Double Fine Adventure documentary and its regular Amnesia Fortnight game jam series, Double Fine has tried to maintain an atmosphere of openness. Spafford said the company wants that to extend to employees' personal conduct, ...

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Gamasutra
Inkle Studios announces 'ink jam', encourages devs to learn ink
Gamasutra
Inkle Studios announced ink jam today,ya game jam running for games written using its open source scripting language ink, which was used to develop titles like 80 Days, Bury Me My Love, and others. The jam will runyfrom August 31 to September ...

Push Square
Mega Penguin Is the Latest Insanity from Dreams on PS4
Push Square
In the above video is the result of a game jam Media Molecule held during the event. Starting with the game's technical director Alex Evans, the developer took ideas and suggestions from those in attendance and people on social media to create The ...

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Cinema Blend
Harry Potter: Hogwarts Mystery Will Let You Duel With Other Players
Cinema Blend
Now that Harry Potter: Hogwarts Mystery players have had a chance to learn multiple offensive and defensive spells within the game, Jam City has decided to up the ante with the introduction of a Dueling Club. For a limited time, young witches and ...

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Worcester Mag
Last Call with Ryan Canuel, game developer
Worcester Mag
The way that we come up with our games is that we do a game jam. We come in to the office, lock ourselves in a room and throw out as many interesting ideas as we can. We pitch around different games and then build a prototype. A prototype is a very ...

TechNode
Chinese game developers come together at Game Jam China
TechNode
On July 6, three hours before the start of Game Jam China organized by China Indie Game Alliance (CiGA)—one of China's largest gaming and developers' communities—there were around 20 developers already sitting in the jamming venue for Beijing.

PC Games Insider (blog)
INSIGHT - Why game jams are so important
PC Games Insider (blog)
Those who follow the world of development will be familiar with the idea of a game jam: a condensed period of time - often ranging from two days to two weeks - wherein developers split into small teams to create an entire game. It's an intense process ...

PC Games Insider (blog)
INSIGHT - YoYo Games' CM Cox on how to run a game jam
PC Games Insider (blog)
Those who follow the world of development will be familiar with the idea of a game jam: a condensed period of time - often ranging from two days to two weeks - wherein developers split into small teams to create an entire game. It's an intense process ...

Interview: Uncovering Lost Words With Mark Backler
TheSixthAxis
The concept actually originated from The Ludum Dare 26 game jam with the theme 'minimalism'. I wanted to make a Tetris inspired game where you were dropping words instead of blocks and then had to jump your character up them to reach a goal.

Kotaku
Gone Home But You're A Car
Kotaku
Gone Vroom is a brief but faithful recreation of Gone Home's muted, mysterious opening, except you're a car. The gag game, dug up by Rock Paper Shotgun, was made for the Ludum Dare 41 game jam, whose theme was “combine two incompatible genres.
Gone Home but with the playable car protagonist it always neededDestructoid

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Destructoid
Gone Home but with the playable car protagonist it always needed
Destructoid
As part of game jam Ludum Dare 41 (and as discovered by Rock Paper Shotgun), John Remedios took the event's theme, two genres that shouldn't be compatible, and ran/drove to the best possible result. Mashing up walking simulators and car simulators, ...

How “My Lovely Daughter” Saved Our Studio
Gamasutra (blog)
During the internal game-jam, we had also invited friends from other studios to be judges and give us unbiased feedback. They thought that My Lovely Daughter has a unique hook and interesting concept and picked it as the winner of our internal game jam.

COGconnected
'Gone Vroom': 'Gone Home' But Instead You're a Car
COGconnected
Apparently, the game was made for the 41st Ludum Dare game jam event. “What in the world lol,” tweeted Gone Home developer Steve Gaynor after discovering the game's existence. Gone Vroom was made with the Unity engine and it's available as a free ...

NOTEBOOK: What can you find at a coworking space?
Business Record
Whenever I stop by the Gravitate coworking space on Locust Street, I have to remind myself to look around. Sure, sometimes our regular office at the Business Record holds a few surprises (like puppy visitors), but there's always more to notice over at ...

The News
College Students Win Video Game Design Award
The News
FOUR students from Fareham College have won the best overall game award at this year's 'Game Jam' event. Second year pupils Jordan Thompson, Jack Sibley, Mantas Ruigys and Connor O'Brien beat off competition from university students and industry ...

MCV
A digital memento mori: how Minit celebrates life every 60 seconds
MCV
Nijman and Calis won the game jam, and were presented with a crossbow by Ultima designer Richard Garriott. The crossbow remained a physical reminder of the concept's promise, but the pair sat on the idea for four more years, while Calis went off to ...