Triangle Game Jam 2009

Mike Daly

7.20.2009

The 3rd Triangle Game Jam event went down the weekend of July 10-12. We made 4 games, which are now listed in the Games page. The theme is listed on the About page. Plans have not been solidified yet, but keep an eye out for an upcoming IGDA meeting where we might present the results.

I think the results show that we are improving; we made more functional games and had better organization than before. Overall, I think this years event was a pretty good success. Thanks to all those who participated, and especially to those that helped organize.

Global Game Jam

Mike Daly

2.4.2008

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 Game Jam games.

IDGA Presentations

Mike Daly

6.25.2008

Last Thursday we presented the results of Triangle Game Jam 2008 to the NC Triangle Chapter of the IGDA (webpage). 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 the meeting didn't get recorded. Maybe next time we will plan a little better. For now, you'll just have to be satisfied with these:

Musical Dragon Twirler

Double Beer Blaster Part 1

Double Beer Blaster Part 2

Pixelated Martini Roller Part 1

Pixelated Martini Roller Part 2

If I can get my hands on a video of Insane Manatee Fighter I'll post it.

One of the things Pat (Patrick Sebring) mentioned at the meeting was that the we used a webpage for randomly generating the game titles. If you don't know why I'm talking about randomly generated game titles, check out the theme description of Triangle Game Jam 2008 on the About page. The random title generator webpage is still up if anyone wants to play around with it. If you randomly generate a new list of game titles, I'm sure you'll find some hilarious ones so give it a shot. The webpage is here: (monkey13.com/gamejam).

Another thing that Pat mentioned is that the SVN repository that we used for version control is still up and is public. That means if you feel like downloading the games to try them out, you can point your SVN client to svn://monkey13.com/gamejam2. However, I warn you that the server doesn't have amazing speed and we ended up indiscriminately adding lots of stuff to it. If you download the whole depot, you are looking at like 600 megs at very slow speed, so you'd be better served to pick and choose what you want to download. for example, I have added a release build at the location DoubleBeerBlaster/EXE, so you can just pull that and save yourself some time. I did ask that everyone check in a release build, but I think Double Beer Blaster and Musical Dragon Twirler are the only ones that have them. For the rest you will need to install Visual C# Express and XNA Game Studio 2.0 and build the source.

Triangle Game 2008

Mike Daly

6.16.2008

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 in the new About page: Triangle Game Jam 2008. You will also find that we have added brief descriptions of each game made at Game Jam 2008 at the Games page: Games

We will be presenting the results of the Triangle Game Jam 2008 to the next IGDA meeting which will be on Thursday, June 19, 7:00 - 9:00 PM. Don't forget to go to the NC Triangle chapter webpage and RSVP.

Triangle Game 2007 Videos

Rett Crocker

7.23.2007

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.

Menage A Tug - Cheat

Shape Slasher

Shape Slasher - Cheat

Stretch

TriBuilder

Trixxon

Watch them All

Triangle Game 2007 - Coming Soon

Rett Crocker

6.22.2007

We're getting all the collected content together now and should have something posted very shortly. Thanks for supporting the Jam.

Triangle Game 2007 Pictures

Rett Crocker

6.20.2007

All the pictures that Dana Cowley took over the course of the weekend have been uploaded to Flickr.

Check them out!