First Global Game Jam at NTI

We had a great time last weekend at NTI Gymnasiet in Göteborg together with three strong second year students working in a team. Me and my 10 year old son was a team too and I’ll share more about our game later. The students worked hard and did a good job considering the fact that they have had just one semester of programming training. We had no third years unfortunately since they are away from school on trainging out at different companies.

The student team had one programmer, one artist and one designer. Their experience is that in the future they simply need to be better. They came across a lot of problems that were hard to solve at their current skill level and even if they learnt a lot they still feel they have a lot more to learn. Which is good!

Our friends at Media Design School did a great job and have blogged about their experience in their blog. Look at that sweet game Dead Pixels their students and Grinding Gear Games did.

We look forward to next year when we will have even more students and teachers involved doing great games! This was after all the first time and we are proud to have been part of something amazing like GGJ. And we were the only swedish high school / upper secondary school that had a GGJ site. Respect 🙂

Global Game Jam in progress!

Worldwide jammers are creating, coding and enjoying the race towards finished games in 48 hours. I have decided to use the Spawn Engine for my game and my 10 year old son is helping out with the design. He came up with the name “The Last Mormaride” and this is the story he came up with:

You are the last of the Great Mormaride Fleet. The war has been long and terrible and the Tyrranax Horde is upon you.

Choose your spaceship wisely and kick some Tyrranax a$$

Now I’ve done a first version of the Mormaride ship:

More ships to come!