Manchester Game Jam Google Group

game jam

trineti...@gmail.com (trine) — Fri, 20 Apr 2012 13:47:47 UT

hi dave and everyone,
just got the invite and off to see my daughter who thinks of me as a
geek, thats some complement given my keybroad fumble, and durrh whats
next helpline mentality.

love madlab and the events know naff all about gaming would have loved
to have been there , may be next time have a great time jamming and

Re: Format suggestions

harvinder.at...@gmail.com (harvinder atwal) — Thu, 05 Apr 2012 17:24:17 UT

Last year, the Manchester Ultimate Programming group, had a 24 hour
starcraft A.I tournament.
The idea was to program starcraft bots and battle them against each other.
This was done using visual studio (so c#) and getting the mod files from
another source. It also required the original game (should be available on

Format suggestions

hellodanh...@gmail.com (Dan Hett) — Wed, 15 Feb 2012 19:17:10 UT

Interested to hear what people are thinking in terms of the format for
the weekend jam.

The Ludum Dare is kind of the loose reason to get everyone together
for the first event, but would people be interested in shorter jams
during the weekend too? Perhaps these would be a little more
achievable for people who don't have the whole weekend free, and these

Re: All suggestions welcome!

hellodanh...@gmail.com (Dan Hett) — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 14:39:47 UT

A few intrepid souls might be up for it, I'll ask on the twitter and
see if anyone's interested.

I mean, it would be pretty awesome just to have it up and running at
the event really

Re: All suggestions welcome!

para...@ivixor.net (Bob Clough) — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 13:12:36 UT

We (HACMan) have a MAME-based arcade cabinet at the madlab. (Its a
bit broken atm, but will be working again by the jam)

It runs Linux, and the controls show up as a usb keyboard to the
game. it has a coin acceptor and, sound output.

Maybe people would be interested in writing arcade-style games that

All suggestions welcome!

hellodanh...@gmail.com (Dan Hett) — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 21:17:50 UT

Hi folks!

If there's anything you'd like to see/include in future MCR Jam
events, please do get your ideas down here. We're completely open to
suggestion, and honestly all we want is to make this the jam that YOU
guys helped create. Theme/format ideas, suggestions for improvements,
or even things you *don't* want to see: all thoughts and ideas are