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 🙂

The Spawn is alive!

So I finally got a blog up and running. The actual files aren’t up here yet but on their way. What I did get to do is a short text about The Project. I’ll write more about the educational side of the project as well as tutorials, modules and maybe even one or more videos.

This weekend is the Global Game Jam and we are jamming here so hopefully I’ll get something done using the engine. If so, it will be blogged about. My friends over at Media Design School in New Zealand will blog about their Jam here. Looking forward too what their teams create!

And of course I can’t reveal this years GGJ theme yet, but its awesome! And it’s very possible to use the engine for that theme.