Guild 01 sequel announced, Keiji Infaune on board
VG247
Level-5′s 3DS game jam complilation Guild 01 doesn't hit Japan until the end of the month, but this week's Famitsu has details of a follow-up. According to Andriasang, the second collection – imaginatively titles Guild 02 – will also feature ...

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Gamasutra
How Epic Games' week-long game jam gave birth to Infinity Blade: Dungeons
Gamasutra
by Douglass Perry [Smartphone/Tablet, Design, Production, Business/Marketing, Exclusive] During a pre-E3 tour last week, Epic Games executive producer Rod Fergusson (Gears of War series) spoke with Gamasutra about how an internal studio game jam last ...

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Play This: 'Super Strict Farmer'
The Verge
By Adi Robertson on May 20, 2012 10:58 am 14Comments The Ludum Dare game jam, themed this year around "tiny worlds," has previously proved a fertile source of browser games, most recently Extensionism. Super Strict Farmer (built, like several of the ...

MCV Pacific
World's first stealth game jam to kick off in Sydney
The Verge
By Tracey Lien on May 16, 2012 11:25 pm 2Comments We've had global game jams inspired by single themes, we've seen Molyjam – a game jam inspired by the ideas of Twitter parody account Peter Molydeux, and now the Australian city of Sydney brings us ...
Sneaky Bastards and AIE to host world's first Stealth JamMCV Pacific

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Xbox Live update: 'Sonic 4 Episode 2'
Digital Spy
Also available on Xbox Live Arcade is the rhythm game Jam Party. Full retail releases Saints Row The Third, The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim, Wipeout 2 and Let's Cheer are also now available for download. Finally, the Lightning story DLC for Final Fantasy ...

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Capybara Games: the team behind Sword & Sworcery
The Verge
Team members huddle around Vella during a recent office game jam. "We spent a couple of years working on games in our spare time," says Vella. "I was editing Canadian television and I'd come home and work on a game for a few hours.

MCV Pacific
New game design / audio specialist studio forms
MCV Pacific
... in Melbourne with the assistance of the New Enterprise Incentive Scheme from the Depertment of Education, Employment and Workplace Relations, and is basing its first game of one of the titles created during this year's 48 hour Global Game Jam.

GameSpy: Game Jam Ludum Dare Celebrates its 10th Anniversary - Page 1
Gamespy.com
By Taylor Cocke | May 14, 2012 It's official, the indie game jammers at Ludum Dare have been at it for a decade. Every few months, they gather the international troops and set them off on a mission to create a game in 48 or 72 hours, often resulting in ...

More than Mario at Toronto's Independent Game Jam
National Post
Tension is high at the 2012 Toronto Independent Game Jam (TOjam). The countdown begins on the first floor of the old Sun newspaper headquarters in downtown Toronto, a building recently converted into a George Brown college classroom space.

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This Week In Gaming: Payne in the Diablo Edition
VGrevolution
Pixeljunk 4 AM (PSN) Newest game in the Pixeljunk downloadable game series, this time a music based game. JAM Live Music Arcade (PSN, XBLA on 5/16) Music maker that lets you use either a controller or your guitar peripheral of choice.

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The Joystiq Indie Pitch: Offspring Fling
Joystiq
May 2011: I went to a local game jam in the Phoenix area. The theme: Motherhood. After an hour or so I had an idea of a puzzle-platformer game where you have to get a bunch of babies safely to an exit, and you could use them in all sorts of ways to ...

Post City
Do / May 2012 / Weekend Warrior: Leonard Cohen, Festival of Ideas and Creation ...
Post City
The seventh annual Toronto Independent Game Jam will bring together video-game developers, students, and professional players (every 13-year-old boy's dream job) for a binge of making and trying out new games. Featuring do-it-yourself gamers, ...

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Launch of Video Game Design and Audio Production Studio - Soundplay Interactive!
Gamasutra
... for their projects” - Trevor Dikes While the company has only just launched, Soundplay Interactive is currently developing a debut mobile game based on a 48-hour prototype that was created at the Melbourne Global Game Jam in January, 2012.

National Post
TOjam at the heart of Toronto's indie-game scene
National Post
This upcoming weekend is the seventh annual Toronto Independent Game Jam (TOjam), a non-competitive “game jam” where professional, hobbyist and student game designers come together, form teams and try to build a game over the course of a weekend.

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Financial Post
Download Code: TOjam at the heart of Toronto's indie-game scene
Financial Post
Super TIME Force, an upcoming Xbox Live Arcade release from Toronto's Capybara Games, got its start at the Toronto Independent Game Jam. Each week in Download Code, Daniel Kaszor looks inside the business of video games with news, analysis and a peek ...

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Binding of Isaac "mega expansion" set to mega-expand your terror and joy May 28th
Gamezebo
“When Florian and I started working on Isaac it was nothing more than a simple game jam game that ballooned and 3 months later we decided to release our little side project on steam for a humble $5,” relays McMillen of the game's improvisational birth.

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World's first global stealth-based gamejam coming soon!
Atomic
It's also got some pretty big plans for this yaer, in the shape of a world first - a global game-jam event that's focused wholly on stealth-based gaming! We love stealth, and want to see stealth gameplay explored more! Stealth is about so much more ...

RIT Students' Video Game Listed Among '20 Best'
PressZoom (press release)
Fade has been the work of a student project team at Rochester Institute of Technology led by undergraduates Daniel Sternfield and Benjamin Saxe since the 2011 Global Game Jam. At the event, sponsored by Albany chapter of the International Game ...

7 Things We'd Love To See At Gamecity 7
WhatCulture!
In a thoroughly surreal twist, Molydeux's online actics have started to affect the real-world indie gaming community, recently inspiring the international “Molyjam” game jam, wherein teams of developers spent a weekend making some of Molydeux's ...

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Jam Live Music Arcade Will Be Released Onto XBLA And PSN During The Week Of May 16
We Got This Covered
Guitar peripherals, most notably the ones from both the Guitar Hero and Rock Band series, will be compatible with the game. JAM Live Music Arcade is a completely new approach to the music genre with a real-time live music sandbox “JAM Mode” that allows ...
Jam Live Music Arcade launches the week of May 16Joystiq

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