Global Games Jam

This will be our third GGJ in Thurles.

As its a 48 hour event preregistration is required and this will open shortly.

We expect students will create games for platforms including (subject to licence) Web, PC, Xbox, PlayStation, iPhone, Android and WP7.

Think UU Coleraine are putting something together for this also.

Anyone from there know any more?

B.

Tipperary Institute site is full. Students from TI & IT Carlow taking part. We might attempt a linkup with UU and Griffith via ustream.tv over the course of the weekend.

Check us out over the weekend via
http://www.gamesfleadh.ie/compete/ggj/live-stream/

thought i would give you people a quick update, From us doing the games jams this weekend in GCD, started yesterday at 5pm its not almost 5am day one ……need sleep :0.

Anyway interesting theme this year (which we cant talk about till the games jam is over in all countries).

There are two teams here at Griffith college , one with Griffith students and a UCD student and one team of DIT students

hope the link up with Tipp goes ahead.

Some of the photos so far, everyone still going strong (06.00am) we played some Giant Connect 4 and Giant Jenga to keep everyones spirits up.

http://www.flickr.com/search/?q=ggj11+gamesfleadh

meanwhile in the design bunker deep below Griffith college……… both teams , are running on nothing more then pure emphusiasm (to the extent where i have lost to ability to spell, and can now only communication in higher design ideas)

sleep has been renegaded to the past as sweet distance memory

Couple of the students put this together during the night…..still not sure if we can release the theme yet….but try and guess from the video
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DunzcOqbm7k

Please remember they have been on the go from 5.00 yesterday – 17 hours now with no Zzzz

"Extinction" ……….. we hope to get 4 possibly 5 games complete

Meanwhile at the legion of Doom……i mean the Griffith Design lab the both teams are hitting it hard on day two, at least i think its day two……. they all just roll together……

actually Griffith is a pretty lively place tonight, the design lab is right beside the Griffith su bar which is packed tonight with students celebrating the Chinese new year.

Might be hard to programme and work with a DJ banging tunes all night. Oh well on the plus side i hear there is karaoke later XD.

Its amazing what you can do on no sleep and fueled by pizza
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W13Yi2mK2pc

Just under 14 hours to go to the finish line … its been a marathon .. still no sleep … and solders are starting to crash

Some nice games being polished off at the moment.

Ha ha, very cool.

Best of luck guys and gals with the games!