Two things to do this summer:
Game Jam Sydney 2012
The first (actually the second) is Game Jam Sydney 2012. It’s a 48 hour game-building hothouse with 100 designers, developers, artists, musicians getting together to jam and make games.
The Jam runs from 5pm Fri January 27th to 5pm Sunday 29th. There are two locations this year:
#1 – Sydney Gamers League. Rosehill Racecourse Expo Centre.
#2 – University of Wollongong.
To find out more and register your interest, go to the web site at:
Game Jam Junior
The weekend before the main jam, we want to organise an ‘junior’ ever with local state libraries. There has been enormous interest from the libraries to run small jam events for high-school students. They will not run the full 48 hours, but will probably just consist of a two-day workshop on Sat Jan 21 and Sun Jan 22.
Tim Gurto and I are looking for volunteers to help run these workshops. Basically it will involve giving a short tutorial on a game-making tool (probably Game Maker) and and an introduction to game design in general. We’re looking for volunteers to take part. We want to get enough people to send two to each library. We’ll also set up an online forum & IRC channel to share between sites.
We need definite commitments for this *this week* so we can tell the libraries how many sites we can run. I want to hold a meeting this Thursday afternoon (2pm) in the Games Lab.
Please email me if you want to take part, or if you have any questions.
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