[PIGMI] How was GGJ Perth?

[Daniel Eichling]

Super awesome guys.  I thought I'd share the games made at the gamejam over
here in St. Louis in case anyone was curious.  I'm being totally honest
when I say (and I think you will see) how awesome you all are.  The STL
site had a LOT of people, final count was around 80, with 13 attempted
games (Perth pulled off 12).

We had a lot more students and non-professionals involved, but still.
 There are some good games that were made, but we have a ways to go to
catch up to the quality to participant ratio you guys are running at. ;)

Although it has nothing to do with the theme (that I could tell) you should
check out TowelFight, and Obelisk has good polish.  The one that really
struck my heart was He Who Ages, but that's because of the presentation the
dude did who made the game, and without that I don't think it can even make
sense.  I wasn't on a team this year sadly, next year I hope to remedy that.

Great job everyone, I'll definitely play all these games, keep up the
awesome work and I miss you guys!

-Dan

On Mon, Jan 30, 2012 at 1:23 AM, Simon Boxer <sb at simonboxer.com> wrote:

> Tried Orbitorus this morning and just picked out Ourobash because of the
> name. Your game is sweet! And super hypnotic after a sleep deprived
> weekend...
>
> Nice one. Will try others later.
>
> S
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> On Mon, Jan 30, 2012 at 6:11 PM, Jack Casey <beetlefeet at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Oops I just realised this is PIGMI and not the ex-Interzone mailing list.
>> So I'm sorry about singling out games like that. :/
>>
>> Go check the full list everyone!
>>
>>
>> On 30 January 2012 15:08, Jack Casey <beetlefeet at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Heya, perth games are here: http://globalgamejam.org/og/games/17419/list
>>>
>>> IZers games:
>>> http://globalgamejam.org/2012/orbitorus
>>> http://globalgamejam.org/2012/otherworld
>>> http://globalgamejam.org/2012/ourobash
>>> http://globalgamejam.org/2012/crooked-spiral
>>> http://globalgamejam.org/2012/worm-will-eat-itself
>>>
>>> It was pretty big this year, and good fun. There was this audio dude
>>> Brock who just did music and sound for like 7 games. So it was great not to
>>> have a bunch of silent demos at the end!
>>>
>>> I figured out a good strategy for sleep. Sleep well the first night and
>>> stay awake the second. I realised if you do it this way then your big
>>> stretch of staying awake is totally within gamejam hours, rather than
>>> including 12 hours of regular friday. Well it makes sense in my head...
>>>
>>> On 30 January 2012 14:31, Simon Boxer <sb at simonboxer.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>>  Hey all,
>>>>
>>>> Was tossing up whether to attend Perth or Melbourne this year and in
>>>> the end I thought it'd be a good opportunity to meet people here.
>>>> It was hosted at a university in the middle of nowhere (slept there)
>>>> and for an entry fee ($48) we got us access to their comps and meals,
>>>> drinks and snacks throughout. Although I don't envy the people who
>>>> organised it... Epic effort! Plus cleanup and prep for every meal.
>>>>
>>>> Here's the game I worked on:
>>>> http://globalgamejam.org/2012/spawn-delicious
>>>>
>>>> Didn't get time to implement the secondary mechanic due to Unity
>>>> crashing and corrupting code on Sunday so it remains a sort of relaxing
>>>> resource management game.
>>>>
>>>> How was the Perth GGJ this year? What should I be playing?
>>>>
>>>> Cheers,
>>>> Simon
>>>>
>>>>
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>>>> Concept Artist
>>>> +61 401 660 286
>>>> http://simonboxer.com
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