Continuing a long tradition of jams in the Triangle area, we’re happy to announce that NC State will be hosting a site for the 2015 Global Game Jam, a weekend hackathon focused on game development. This year, the NC State Game Jam will kick off on Centennial Campus, Engineering Building II, Room 3211 at 7PM…
The Global Game Jam is right around the corner, January 24-26. If you’re local to the triangle area make sure to signup for the NC State jam site, http://globalgamejam.org/2014/jam-sites/nc-state-university. In related news, I took one of our old theme tools for Triangle Game Jams and have turned it into a full blown internet tool to…
Phew, MolyJam 2013 is over! Thanks to Half Empty Energy Tank for organizing the Durham MolyJam site, and The Escapist and Spark Plug Games for sponsoring it. It was a bit of a last minute jam, but we made some cool games and had a blast. Check out the games: Peter Needs A Pint Asiatic…
It was a banner year, with jammers creating 10 different games: Broken Magic Jumper Exploding Slime Painter Fat Unicorn Sweater – Return to the Mall Fat Unicorn Sweater – Fly thru the clouds Gooey God Lover Masked Baboon Peeper Ordinary Man Troller Pixelated Hoverboard Shooter Rapid Corpse Burner Pretty Turtle Zapper TGJ 2013 will be…
We will be having another triangle game jam on November 9th thru the 11th. It will follow a similar format to the past few jams: Meet Friday night to discuss the theme and form teams Jam all day Saturday Jam until 3 pm or so on Sunday, wrap up, and present games The theme will…
The 2012 GGJ went off without a hitch; we had 27 jammers create 6 cool games at the NC Triangle site. Here are a few photos from the event; there are more to come later on, as well as the videos of the gameplay and final presentations. We also want to thank our generous sponsors:…
It’s almost jam time. Participants are encouraged to arrive starting around 5:00 PM. This will give you time to set up your equipment and meet fellow jammers. When you arrive there will be volunteers available to help you set up and direct you to the proper facilities. Please sign in at this time so we…
I’m happy to announce that we will be hosting a Global Game Jam site in the NC Triangle area again this year, January 27th to the 29th at Joystick Labs in downtown Durham. Sign up now at http://globalgamejam.org/sites/2012/triangle-game-jam. More information will follow shortly, but the format will likely be very similar to past years: Try…
We’re still migrating content from the old website, so here is a list of games made at past jams to tide you over: Global Game Jam 2011 Angry Planets Butterfly Garden Hubert’s Safari Adventure Null and Void PopO Survive or Die! Weekend of Mass Destruction Triangle Game Jam 4 LootGrab Save your Pets Super Block…
Last Thursday we presented the results of Triangle Game Jam 2008 to the NC Triangle Chapter of the IGDA. I think all of the games got a great reception which was really gratifying. Thanks to Adam Creigton, we have videos of some of the presentations. Unfortunately, they aren’t the best quality and some bits of…
Sorry for taking so long to get the webpage updated. Triangle Game Jam 2008 went down the weekend of May 10-11 and the webpage is finally updated to prove it. You can check out a summary and the games on the Triangle Game Jam 2008 page. We will be presenting the results of the Triangle Game Jam…
Last weekend was the first annual Global Game Jam. There were about 20 participants at the triangle site, and around 1600 worldwide. Special thanks to Mike Lee for organizing our group. The triangle group made 4 awesome games which you can read about and download from the Global Game Jam’s game browser: Raleigh, Durham, Chapel Hill’s Global…
All the videos from the Jam have been uploaded to YouTube (finally). I ran into some weird technical issues, so it took much longer than I thought it would.
We’re getting all the collected content together now and should have something posted very shortly. Thanks for supporting the Jam.
All the pictures that Dana Cowley took over the course of the weekend have been uploaded. Check them out!