IndieCity-Hosted Global Game Jam Site a Success!
Gamasutra
IndieCity.com hosted its second Global Game Jam site in Birmingham, with over 50 attendees creating 11 different games. This year's IndieCity-hosted Global Game Jam site in Birmingham saw over 50 participants get together to create 11 titles, ...

Business Post Mortem: Wolf Toss: Pre-launch Planning & Blended CAC
Gamasutra (blog)
It didn't come out of a week-long game jam, or a series of game planning meetings, or some kind of market analysis showing that it was the logical evolution of the physics knock-em-down genre. Instead, as Todd Hooper wrote in his MobileDevHQ article ...

Show And Tell: Kumobius
Kotaku Australia
Today we have Kumobius in the hot seat — not only did these guys win the recent Melbourne Game Jam, they now have a game out on iOS: Bean's Quest! Delicious! Can you introduce yourself and tell me a little bit about your studio/team?

On The Ground at the Perth Global Game Jam: Day Three
games.on.net
I tell him that, much like his Superman-themed underwear, I was happier when I didn't know. You too can play the games from the Perth Game Jam! Head along to this link to see all the games from the Perth Jam, and play them for yourselves.

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VIDEO: Someone finally made a sequel to 'Snake' and it is awesome
Guyism
The thing you see above was created in only 48 hours, as part of the 2012 Global Game Jam, in which scores of indie game makers try to assembled a title, from start the to finish, in just two days. And the results in this case speak for themselves!

On The Ground at the Perth Global Game Jam: Day Two
games.on.net
I re-entered the jam at noon on Saturday, having played The Old Republic all night and slept in until eleven AM. When I see the amount of sleeping bags on the floor of the jam room, I feel like an arsehole. There's drama in one of the ex-Interzone ...

Game Jam Spawns Leapin' Lizards and Birds in Space
Patch.com
By Gina Hagler An action screen from "StarSling," winner of the Global Game Jam competition at the Universities at Shady Grove. The mission that teams competing in the Global Game Jam last weekend at Universities at Shady Grove chose to accept: Create ...

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On The Ground at the Perth Global Game Jam: Day One
games.on.net
Last weekend, games.on.net (in the form of myself) dropped into the Perth Global Game Jam to watch thirty-five crazy game developers try to build a game over forty-eight hours. Here's how the first day went down. It's 5:30 PM, on the afternoon of ...

Scoop.co.nz (press release)
Catch Me If You Can voted site favourite
Scoop.co.nz (press release)
A game created by three University of Waikato graduates was voted site favourite at the Waikato leg of the 48 hour Global Game Jam. Catch Me If You Can, a multiplayer racing game, was created by Jacob Toye, Dave Leaver and Jeremy Moore and inspired by ...

Finally, A Video Game With Machine Gun-Wielding Flying Snakes
Kotaku Australia
This video was sent in from the recent Global Game Jam, an indie meetup where developers have 48 hours to build a game. Any game. The theme at this game jam? “Ouroboros,” the snake eating itself. Or, as the presenter here says, “Basically, ...

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Finally, a Video Game with Machine-Gun-Wielding Flying Snakes
Kotaku
This video was sent in from the recent Global Game Jam, an indie meetup where developers have 48 hours to build a game. Any game. The theme at this game jam? "Ouroboros," the snake eating itself. Or, as the presenter here says, "Basically, ...
Global Game Jam – Wollongong 2012Capsule Computers

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Global Game Jam – Wollongong 2012
Capsule Computers
Well that's the Global Game Jam, and it's the ultimate way for an indie developer to test their game-making skills. This year the game jam was held between January 27 through to January 29, and marked the first time a game jam was ever held at the NSW ...
Finally, a Video Game with Machine-Gun-Wielding Flying SnakesKotaku

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Melbourne Game Jam 2012
Capsule Computers
Also going for more than 45 hours was this weekend's Game Jam, a worldwide gathering of indie game devs who volunteer to be locked up for two days and powerhouse their way through the game development process. On Sunday, I went along to check out the ...

Capy posts ideas from its internal game jam, and they all sound pretty good
Joystiq
All seven games from Capy's internal game jam are now listed over on the company blog, and to a title they all sound pretty good. The Final Act has the player acting on stage to win a battle, Ferret Wings features Captain Farris the Ferret fighting ...

Crikey (blog)
A Little Bit of Challenge Is Good: Surviving Melbourne's Game Jam
Crikey (blog)
“They're pretty casual,” says Giselle Rosman, the organiser of the Melbourne chapter of the Global Game Jam. It's 2.35 on Sunday afternoon, and the 110-odd participants at La Trobe University's Bundoora campus have been making videogames almost ...
This 72-Hour Game Lets You Fly Through The Galaxy and Into One Man's MindKotaku

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Eye on UMSL: Game on!
UMSL Daily (blog)
University of Missouri–St. Louis information systems students Nijaiananth Sivagurunathan and Robert Perez pose with Chancellor Tom George at the beginning of the 2012 Global Game Jam. The annual event, which was held in the Social Science & Business ...

Gamers make their own in Rockville competition
Gazette.Net: Maryland Community News Online
by Alex Ruoff, Staff Writer Tom Fedor/The Gazette During Global Game Jam on Sunday, Team Sad Dog's James Kim, 19, (left) of Olney a student at University of Maryland, Simeon Anfinrud, 19, (center) of Bethesda, also a UMD student, and 2011 Blake High ...

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Global Game Jam gives budding video game developers hands-on experience (video)
Oneida Dispatch
By MATT POWERS Morrisville State College students and alumni along with local aspiring game designers came together to test their skills by creating a video game in 48 hours at the 2012 International Game Developers Association's Global Game Jam over ...
A Little Bit of Challenge Is Good: Surviving Melbourne's Game JamCrikey (blog)
Melbourne Game Jam 2012Capsule Computers
WRAP UP: Global Game JamMCV Pacific

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This 72-Hour Game Lets You Fly Through The Galaxy and Into One Man's Mind
Kotaku
Universe Within was made this past weekend as part of 2012's Global Game Jam, the annual event where thousands of designers and developers come together into small teams that make games practically from scratch. There's always a theme to GGJ games and ...

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'December Project' trio, DLSU Lipa lad rule Manila Game Jam 2012
GMA News
A jury of three highly-respected experts evaluated each Manila Game Jam output. The judges awarded top honors to the 'December Project' trio of Kristian Mitra, Edward Michael Atienza, and Jay Gavarra — who worked out of the University of the ...