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[tigjamau]

Photos from TIGJam Australia #3

The full album is on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.1692152221013016.1073741828.1680594388835466&type=3.  Photos taken by Chad Toprak and Harrison Smith.

Some of the games from this year’s TIGJam Australia will be playable at the next IGDA Melbourne meetup on Tuesday 14th of July.  More information on the meetup can be found here: http://igdamelbourne.org/igdam-in-july-mo-cap-film-victoria-playtesting-tigjam-and-defect/

EDIT: Tumblr has a maximum of 10 photos per post, but we’ll put up a full page on the site with all the photos later (so you won’t have to go to Facebook).

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A dice game we invented at the Cambridge TIGJAM

[gametalks]

Matthew Wegner - TIGJam Talks

Matthew briefly discusses the life lessons learned during his year-long experiment creating one free game every eight weeks.

[anthonyhj]

TIGJAM UK 4, 4-7 Feb 2011

Just a quick one: I will be visiting the fourth TIGJAM UK from the 4th to the 7th of February this year, so feel free to drop in and say hello if you are in the Cambridge area that weekend.  It looks like it could be a great opportunity to see indie developers in action.

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[anthonyhj]

My first Game-Jam

Last night, I attended day one of my first ever game-jam in Cambridge.  The theory was that we had three hours, from seven until ten, to make a game based on one or all of the three supplied themes - two players, one screen; bungee-jumping; Swiss cheese - and some people hit that target, but it was more of a warm-up day while people arrived and got up to speed.

My own offering (available [here]) took a little over the three hours, but I was proud of making something (vaguely) playable in only three hours.

In the end, I realised just how little dev-time three hours gives you.  I have been used to long dev-cycles and large teams, so working solo in a short time-scale is new and terrifying.  I could spend over three hours writing a pitch document, so making the game from scratch in that time needed a change of approach.

Today, I am looking after my sick wife.  I should make it to day two slightly late, but I am not going to push it.  There are two more days to go after today, so if I have to wait for the morning, so be it.  In fact, all the good seats will probably be gone by the time I get there anyway...

[anthonyhj]

As the time draws near, I am looking forward to next week's game-jam.  It is sad that I had to miss the Global Game Jam, but what can you do?

Today, I have been looking into Python, both for Ren'Py and seeing if I can make use of the PyGame libraries (LGPL makes them commercially-viable) for future games. 

I must admit that I am not 100% convinced by the whole indenting thing, coming from the C family of languages with its curly braces and clearly-defined containment of blocks of code, but I tend to use indents to keep my curly-braced code clear anyway.