32 hours with no preparation to make an entire game
May the least rubbish attempt win
Whatever your skill level, come along and have a laugh
Start: Saturday 19th November 9:00am
End: Sunday 20th November 11:00pm
Time you will not sleep:
32 hours: 10:00am Saturday to 6:00pm Sunday
Place of worship:
Clubs Association Common Room
Lady Symon Building, Adelaide University
Bloodsport:
At 6:00pm Sunday all playable and unplayable abominations can be
entered into a competition. Everyone then attempts to play each
others' games and then yells at the creator until they cry. You
also get to rate the games if you attempted to make one. Sounds
like a lot of work to me, really.
Games are scored in up-to five delicious categories: Mechanics, Aesthetics, Story, Technology and Theme.
The theme will be announced at 10:00am on Saturday. Please do your best to be indignant about our theme choice, we worked hard to annoy you.
We strongly encourage you to make a computer game, but traditional games are also allowed. We won't supply the octogenarians to play them, though.
To be eligible for entry your game must be build-able using only tools available free of charge. LEGITIMATELY free of charge. Not like Duke Nukem Forever which you pirated somewhere in the South Caribbean. Good call on that, by the way. This excludes operating systems and base materials such as paper. Can you imagine if we didn't allow Micro$oft Windows? Lennon can.
Games entered in the competition will be publicly released on the website. Make something your Gran will be proud to have "tweeted on her Myspace wall."
In order to be eligible for prizes, you must open source your game. You can choose any OSI or CC license but by default the MIT license will be used for code and the Creative Commons BY-NC-SA 3.0 for assets. A sensible alternative is my license: every third line of code is released under the GPL, every second line is proprietary and the rest was eaten by a grue. If you decide not to open source your game, you will still be involved in voting.
Crap we bring, crap you bring:
A wireless network with no Internet access will be available as well
as a wired network if you bring your own Ethernet cable. BYO external
hard drive filled with tasteful ponies. Please avoid bringing a
desktop computer if possible as we have limited space. If you must
then also bring a power board and be prepared to sit on my lap.
Unrelated, only chicks are allowed to bring desktops.
Why you might still be sad and alone on a Saturday night:
No alcohol will be allowed at the venue. Bet you thought there would
be a joke here. There isn't, and you are a bad person, Steve. We
reserve the right to turn away anyone if they are in any way disruptive
or not amusing.
University policy does not allow people sleeping on campus. If you fall asleep Security may tell you to go home to rest. We encourage you to ask them to join you. Come to think of it, I have never read University policy. I just hope that you haven't either.
Prizes Prizes Prizizes:
When the winners in each category have been selected by science as
genetically superior, we will fetch sufficient bragging rights from
our high security vault and grudgingly loan them with interest until
the next jam.
The overall winner is chosen by averaging their game's ratings in each category, and the prize is a $30 Coles-Myer gift voucher. For the uninitiated and ugly, a voucher is a convenient way of making useful dosh worthless outside of the cold concrete confines of your friendly neighbourhood multi-national, as well as after April when they expire.
Everyone who makes a game will get a small, crappy (yet delicious) participation prize.
Beat the holiday rush:
You must register below to be guaranteed entry, barring force majeure
or general incompetece.
Contact:
If you have any questions, feel free to contact us at
gamejam@gnomelogic.com
You can also chat to us on IRC at irc://irc.freenode.net/#jamalaide
