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HI there:
We’re putting together a Game Development Day to be held in February/March next year
The format is similar to Ludum Dare, Startup weekend, 24 the web in that you should have something that is demoable by the end of the day.The day: People from different areas of game development come together to build a game. At the end of that day the game needs to be demoed and all people involved vote for the best one.
This is a free to enter event.
We are trying to figure out the level of interest so we can get a venue that suits so it would be great if you can just +1 here.
Cheers
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Hi aphra:
This event will be in Dublin, in town. We are nearly sure we have a venue, but is better to be 100% booked before mentioning it.
Its open to anyone that can write some aspect of games. Ideally people should come with some idea in mind, and maybe even a team of people they want to work with.
I found a John O kane in twitter hopefully is him :D
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John O’Kane here. I think the more game jam days the better. I can put a post out to all previous attendees of jams to let them know. I’d planned to run a monthly/bi-monthly thing to give people a reliable event to attend – unfortunately I got too busy to even hand it over to someone else. There’s definitely plenty of interest in Dublin for an everyone included Jam.
I know Daniel McCrea is interested in maybe doing something in future along the lines of the FilmBase jams and Paddy and the lads at Open Emotion have done stuff in the West (one idea raised via IGDA: one event in Limerick one month, one in Dublin the next – round robin).
Also it’s best to avoid clashing with Ireland’s premier event – Games Fleadh: 14th to 15th March 2012 and the Global Games Jam: January 27 – 29.
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Sounds great, I’m interested.
And yeah, not only were John’s Jams good, the Open Emotions guys had their own Sham Jam: http://www.openemotionstudios.com/sham-jam-2011-post-mortem-and-shamfest-2012-info/ It was well attended and decent games were made (though I never got to play the other games there)
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+1!
Would love to go to another jam and for them to become more regular events – I’d be more than willing to help out in anyway I can with organisation.
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+1, there’ll be plenty of interest I’d say. Been forever since that last one in the science gallery.
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+1, I look forward to it
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Hi John:
Thanks for the response and all the pointers.
We definetly dont want to clash with those dates.Sofox: cheers for that. A week long!! wow that sounds cool
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+1 would certainly attend if I’m free that day
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Eoghan here from Open Emotion. +1
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Inspired by the awesome energy at state of play, we have opened registration for Dublin Gamecraft.
For registration or more details go to;dns is resolving slowly you can use http://dublingamecraft.tumblr.com/
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Inspired by the awesome energy at state of play, we have opened registration for Dublin Gamecraft.
For registration or more details go to;dns is resolving slowly you can use http://dublingamecraft.tumblr.com/
meanwhile[/quote:22af85cb41]Woohoo! Just registered. Can’t wait.
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Also registered
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so what did everyone think?
I thought it was bloody inspiring
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whoops, wrong thread.
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I’m up for this, looking forward to it! :-D
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See y’all threre!
I’m sure it’s going to be an awesome event :)
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Can’t wait.
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Will share link and details with my students, and see if I can attend myself. Just need to figure out if the dates work.
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I’ll be using Unity, really good engine for get ideas prototyped fast.
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Will share link and details with my students, and see if I can attend myself. Just need to figure out if the dates work.
Cool richard thanks
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Nice one on the tech, knowing this will help choose the prizes better actually
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Going with flash, specifically Flex + Flixel
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I’ll be pushing for unity to be used on what ever team I end up on. Its great for getting results fast. I use it most of the time anyway so I’m confident in its uses AND in being able to give accurate eta’s for getting stuff done on the day.
Time FLYS at these things, the faster u can get stuff done the better positioned you’ll be to have something playable at the end of the day.
Also it can take in loads of different art asset types, you never know what type of art you’ll be gettin on the day!
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BTW, We are going to expand this a bit more in the coming days but we ll have a showcase area too, ie if you are registered to participate in the event you can showcase your existing games there (we are figuring out the logistics at the moment )
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Sounds good! I missed the demo section before the State of Play so it’d be great to get another chance to see everyone’s game in action.
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We were there, and we got a lot of insight by seeing other people play the game and just talking to people in general
The problem is you need to be there while people are playing and how can you be there if you are writting a new game… so we are trying to figure that part out (suggestions welcome)
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I shall be going down to provide some custom audio assets to whoever should need them.
If anyone is organising a team before hand give me a shout.
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I’d forgotten to actually register on Eventbrite for GameCraft, I only realised when I looked at my profile there that I hadn’t.
I’m going to be coding for Unity3d at the event. I’ll bring (open source) assets too but I’d be interested in working with one or two others if the opportunity arises.
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Is there any idea as to how many people are expected to turn up? And also what is the expected experience of the people turning up? Will it be Students with little experience going up against people who make games for a living?
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hi @jstew09, there is over 100 people registered, hopefully they ll all turn up :D
I d say the level of experience varies greatly, we have registered total newbies and some people who have worked on AAA releases as well as many indies with plenty awesome games on their beltsThe idea of this event is having fun, meeting meeting people into gamedev and building a game. The judging is done so we all push ourselves to the limit in a very constrained scenario and so you have some honest constructive and completely subjective feedback.
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