Would you be interested in an unofficial LTT Game Jam?

[Fredrik Svantesson]

As the title states. This post is meant to gather information about what the interest would look like for such a thing.

 

For the uninitiated, from Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Game_jam)

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A game jam is a hackathon for video games. It is a gathering of people for the purpose of planning, designing, and creating one or more games within a short span of time, usually ranging between 24 and 72 hours, and some even longer. Participants are generally made up of programmers, game designers, artists, writers, and others in game development-related fields.

 

Would you guys be interested in such an event? I'm thinking something like:

 

 * Groups of 1-4

 * A theme that has to be followed (that we vote on beforehand)

 * 72 hours (or maybe a week for those who dont have too much time to spare?)

 * All assets must be created during the time, including gamelogic, models, props, characters, music, sounds, particle effects etc.

 * Old non-game-related code (for example code assets) and custom engines that you've created can be used.

 

We would also need a team of judges. Like 5 or something.

 

Thoughts?

[Ecchi]

It would certainly be interesting.

[Fredrik Svantesson]

4 hours, 75 views, 1 reply. Not looking good.

[minibois]

Programming sub forum is not super popular here sadly..

This is pretty cool. I am ... Lightly interested in, but next to life-obligations it would be quite difficult to dedicate that amount of time to this sadly..

[IAmAndre]

It would be interesting if it wasn't just about game development. I'd be down for a coding competition.

[wasab]

I can't draw and design. Anything I make will be a copy and paste from Google images or just plain stick figures. I don't want people to laugh at my graphics. 

[Teddy07]

No, don´t care about games

[straight_stewie]

I would be interested if the theme was loose enough to allow the majority of the game development be programming rather than asset creation.