Global Game Jam 2011
Heyy, another blogpost!!
This time though, it's a unique experience I want to talk about (well unique for me),
and I felt if I didn't talk about it I'd miss out on sharing this to the world.
Earlier this year I signed up for a game development event called Global Game Jam.
The goal of the event was for game developers to come together and with small teams of
up to five people, make a game in 48 hours. Yes, it could be described as a mad rush, or as a innovative and new way to stimulate creativity. I would be a great experience and
a way to see some of my old classmates back.
Now I'm sitting here in the morning, it's 8h50 pm and I just slept a meager five hours in my sleeping bag on the floor. My face is all red from my makeshift pillow (bunched up clothes) and my eyes feel like they might as well be used as sandpaper. But I'm fairly content sitting here. It's a blast, hehe.
Day 2! Our project, for the moment called "fresh fiiish" is about infected fish trying to spread or stop the infection (depending on good or evil). It's going to be a silly game with each infected fish needing controlling with one keyboard key. Yes, if you have 20 infected fish, you'll need 20 keys ;). For the moment, the prototype is "ready" and now comes importing the first of the art assets and testing and polishing for the real game. We'll see how that goes... but first, breakfast!
Hehe, it's funny to see those people that have just woken up walk by with their dazed look. I know it's how I must have been looking when I first woke up, but I was one of the early ones... Well, early in this... bout of waking people.
I'm glad I bought a food-packet arrangement for the weekend, they certainly feed us enough and we get a lot more than we payed for. Yay sponsering.
Anyways, now I'm really going to enjoy my breakfast, and see about turning those damn fish around to join your infected horde, without breaking the gameplay. You'll prolly hear more from me later, but for now...
--Warynn out
This time though, it's a unique experience I want to talk about (well unique for me),
and I felt if I didn't talk about it I'd miss out on sharing this to the world.
Earlier this year I signed up for a game development event called Global Game Jam.
The goal of the event was for game developers to come together and with small teams of
up to five people, make a game in 48 hours. Yes, it could be described as a mad rush, or as a innovative and new way to stimulate creativity. I would be a great experience and
a way to see some of my old classmates back.
Now I'm sitting here in the morning, it's 8h50 pm and I just slept a meager five hours in my sleeping bag on the floor. My face is all red from my makeshift pillow (bunched up clothes) and my eyes feel like they might as well be used as sandpaper. But I'm fairly content sitting here. It's a blast, hehe.
Day 2! Our project, for the moment called "fresh fiiish" is about infected fish trying to spread or stop the infection (depending on good or evil). It's going to be a silly game with each infected fish needing controlling with one keyboard key. Yes, if you have 20 infected fish, you'll need 20 keys ;). For the moment, the prototype is "ready" and now comes importing the first of the art assets and testing and polishing for the real game. We'll see how that goes... but first, breakfast!
Hehe, it's funny to see those people that have just woken up walk by with their dazed look. I know it's how I must have been looking when I first woke up, but I was one of the early ones... Well, early in this... bout of waking people.
I'm glad I bought a food-packet arrangement for the weekend, they certainly feed us enough and we get a lot more than we payed for. Yay sponsering.
Anyways, now I'm really going to enjoy my breakfast, and see about turning those damn fish around to join your infected horde, without breaking the gameplay. You'll prolly hear more from me later, but for now...
--Warynn out
posted by Warynn at 1/29/2011 09:00:00 AM
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