London Hackspace Event: Gamejam 2: Electric Boogaloo (Saturday 11th June 2011, 10:00 onwards)
Robert Leverington
Date: Saturday 11th June 2011, 10:00 onwards (until Sunday 12th June)
Location: Laboratory 24, 37 Cremer Street, E2 8HD [1]
Signup: http://londonjam2.eventbrite.com
Hello! A few months back, there was a gamejam at thie hackspace [2]. It went
well enough that people thought there should be another one. So we are having
one. Would you like to come along?
A gamejam is like a hackweekend for videogames. You arrive and spend 2 days or
so making a necessarily limited videogame, often with other people. It's
welcome to beginners - there are plenty of drag-and-drop tools for making
videogames - for old broken platformers, there's klik'n'play [3], for visual
novels there's ren'py [4], and there's aFlash visual gamemaking tool [5] a
friend has been working on he'll almost certain bring if you want to try it.
The focus is on making some kind of interesting gameplay rather than technical
brilliance. Or at least, something "interesting".
The theme of this jam will be making games for our very own Hackspace arcade
machine. On a side note, if anyone wants to help renovate an arcade machine,
please get in touch. It's the shell of an original Neo-Geo machine, but we
shall jam new games inside.
People will be there from 10am on the Saturday until the evening on the Sunday.
There will be a pub trip organized for the Saturday evening, and there will no
doubt be forays to somke of the excellent Vietnamese places nearby for lunch.
-- George Buckenham <v.twen...@gmail.com>
[1] http://wiki.hackspace.org.uk/wiki/Laboratory_24/Getting_There
[2] http://londonjam.eventbrite.com/
[3] http://sites.google.com/site/knpkorner/
[4] http://www.renpy.org/
[5] http://www.omga.me/