[OLPC-Games] [Toronto-dev] Anyone interested in a Game Jam?

Samuel Klein meta.sj at gmail.com
Fri Nov 16 12:28:47 EST 2007


I should have read all my mail before asking :-)  Also, here's a set
of photos just uploaded to the wiki from the Brasil jam last weekend:

http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Game_Jam_Brasil

SJ!

On Nov 4, 2007 10:35 PM, Andrew Clunis <andrew at orospakr.ca> wrote:
>
> On Fri, 2007-10-26 at 14:33 -0400, Mike C. Fletcher wrote:
> > Myles Braithwaite wrote:
> > > I am definitely in.
> > >
> > Alright, as of now it's just Myles and I, with Soni maybe showing up if
> > she's got time that weekend.  Anyone else interested?  We're still
> > thinking of the weekend of the 16th of November.  (Same time as the CMU
> > Game Jam IIUC).  With such a small number of people we might be able to
> > hold it at Linux Caffe.  I'm going to be in Taiwan come Wednesday, so if
> > we're going to have more people I'll need to know about it soon so I can
> > find a bigger venue (and/or book a table or two at Linux Caffe).
>
> I might be interested in coming too!  I'm the guy who was working on
> Develop activity earlier this year, but being in Ottawa has left me a
> bit cut off from all the other OLPC people.
>
> I *might* need a place to spend the night, though!
>
> > No way we'd finish all of that in a weekend, though... still, it would
> > be interesting to see how far we got.  I'm sure a smaller game would be
> > far more practical.  Or we could just cut it down a lot and consider
> > basic playability the goal, with the various extra rules as secondary.
>
> Yeah, I suggest the iterative approach is probably best.  If your game
> is always at least running to some degree, more people will be
> encouraged to jump in and contribute. :)
>
> --
> Regards,
> Andrew Clunis
>
>
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