GameDev.net (press release) (blog)
Bencin Studios Dev Diary
GameDev.net (press release) (blog)
Over the weekend of September 8th and 9th, 2018, our team participated in a Game Jam hosted by the Nashville Game Developers and The Adventure Science Center in Nashville, TN. The event kicked off on Saturday morning with introductions and our ...

Borneo Bulletin Online
Donut County is a little bit about gentrification – and a whole lot of fun
Borneo Bulletin Online
He said that the game was inspired by the twitter account @PeterMolydeux, which parodies the musings of the famous game designer Peter Molyneux. At a game jam in LA in 2012, Esposito, decided to run with one of the ideas thrown out by @Petermolydeux ...

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Arizona State University
Arizona Impact
Arizona State University
For the sixth year in a row, middle-school and high-school students from across Arizona gathered at the Polytechnic campus for a two-day coding competition Sept. 12–13. The event, called the SPARK App League Game Jam, is a collaboration between ...

NewsOK.com
'Donut County' is a little bit about gentrification — and a whole lot of fun
NewsOK.com
Ben Esposito, the creator of "Donut County," spent six years working on it. He said that the game was inspired by the twitter account @PeterMolydeux, which parodies the musings of the famous game designer Peter Molyneux. At a game jam in L.A. in 2012, ...

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TrustedReviews
Surgeon Simulator CPR (Nintendo Switch)
TrustedReviews
Already out on a multitude of formats, Bossa Studios brings its 48-hour Global Game Jam construction to the Switch in the form of Surgeon Simulator CPR (Co-Op Play Ready). For the uninitiated, Surgeon Simulator is exactly what you think it is. Well ...

FOX 10 News Phoenix
Arizona students compete in coding competition
FOX 10 News Phoenix
MESA, Ariz. (KSAZ) - Jack Trabue is just 12 years old, but he's already thinking ahead to entering the work force. "When I heard when I was quite young that you can build things and be creative at the same time, I was like 'Why not?'" he said. "Well ...

GameSpew
Upcoming Mable & The Wood is a Sweet Metroidvania With a Twist
GameSpew
Sheffield-based Andrew Stewart started work on the game as part of the Ludum Dare game jam back in 2015. Since then, he's continued working on Mable in his spare time while having to juggle being a dad, having a full-time job and dealing with lots of ...

The First Beta of the /e/ OS to Be Released Soon, Canonical's Security Patch for Ubuntu 18.04 LTS, Parrot 4.2.2 Now ...
Linux Journal
Open Jam, the open-source game jam, will run this year from October 5–8th: "Participants will build an open source game from scratch in 80 hours, play and judge other games, and compete for a chance to have their game featured at All Things Open.

Nintendo Insider
Frantic Shape-Based Puzzler Omvorm Out On Nintendo Switch Next Week
Nintendo Insider
The game, which started out as an entry for the Unreal Engine 4 Spring Game Jam called Space Shift, had been created around the “Transformation” theme. You are challenged to line up your Vorm, changing it to the correct shape to then speed the Vormwall ...

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Pocket Gamer.Biz
Pocket Gamer Connects day two begins with Blockchain, Indie and Growth tracks
Pocket Gamer.Biz
But wait... there's more. As well as our plethora of conference sessions, we've also got a number of fringe events. These include the continuation of the Pocket Jam game jam - with the winners announced at the end of the show. Then there's the Big ...

University of Miami
Educating the public through game design
University of Miami
Grace is the vice president of the Global Game Jam(r) non-profit and the Higher Education Video Game Alliance, both focus on increasing access to game-making and education globally. He has received numerous awards and recognition from the Games for ...

TrustedReviews
New games, old hardware: Meet the developers revitalising retro consoles
TrustedReviews
After cutting their teeth developing a barely functional Mega Drive game in 48-hours at the Global Game Jam competition, Roberts soon moved on to develop for the SNES where they're currently developing a Robin Hood-inspired archery brawler that's now ...

Philly.com
'Digital Fringe' goes live for one night — come meet pioneering game-dev types in the flesh
Philly.com
"We decided to have a two-week game jam, with the theme of 'making digital art,' and several of the pieces at Digital Fringe came out of that." One of his contributions, @hereafter, is an "escape-the-room game" played in a chat room with "other digital ...

Philly.com
'Digital Fringe' goes live for one night — come meet pioneering game-dev types in the flesh
Philly.com
"We decided to have a two-week game jam, with the theme of 'making digital art,' and several of the pieces at Digital Fringe came out of that." One of his contributions, @hereafter, is an "escape-the-room game" played in a chat room with "other digital ...

theday.com
Video game review: 'Donut County' is a whole lot of fun
theday.com
Ben Esposito, the creator of "Donut County," spent six years working on it. He said that the game was inspired by the twitter account @PeterMolydeux, which parodies the musings of the famous game designer Peter Molyneux. At a game jam in L.A. in 2012, ...

Jam Favorites: GM48: One Tool, Many Uses
Big Boss Battle
The GM48 is a quarterly game jam which challenges developers to make a game in forty-eight hours using the GameMaker engine. The theme for this version was 'One Tool, Many Uses'. The GameMaker community around this jam takes part in a number of ...

Wizards and What Not
Harry Potter: Hogwarts Mystery gets Year 5 story, new characters, classes, and more
Wizards and What Not
Like with every year, there's a new Defense Against the Dark Arts professor, who will be revealed within the game. Jam City won't let anyone know ahead of time! And look out for a new member of the Weasley family in the school, along with other new ...

Gamescom Gems You Might Have Missed
GameSpace.com
Born from a free-form game jam, Supermarket Shriek is a wacky, alchemical blend of ideas that end up being delirious fun. The premise is simple: a man and a goat hitch a ride together in a shopping kart, using the power of their screams to propel ...

Sector.sk (tlačová správa) (blog)
Prihláste sa na Comics GAME JAM 2018 a vytvorte hru za 30 hodín
Sector.sk (tlačová správa) (blog)
No a prvýkrát vo svojej histórii v spolupráci so SECTOR.sk a s Butterfly Effect začneme novú tradíciu v rámci tohto festivalu a to GAME JAM tradíciu. GAME JAM naši pravidelní čitatelia poznajú, ide o akciu, počas ktorej súťažiaci za limitovaný čas ...

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Gamasutra (blog)
A Game Jam Postmortem + Tips for Unreal Engine 4 Beginners
Gamasutra (blog)
This involved a lot of firsts for me - first time leading a game jam team, first time working with complete strangers for a jam, first time using Unreal Engine 4 outside of following tutorials, first time taking part in a 5 day jam, first time in an ...