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Nerdy Dilbert's next assignment: a man of action
San Antonio Express
The Dilbert Game Jam runs through July 12, and the winner will be selected about a week later by none other than “Dilbert” creator Scott Adams. For the contest, Corona Labs is offering its mobile development platform Corona SDK, which the company says ...

Social games news roundup: Google game services, EA, Kabam and more
Inside Social Games
Corona Labs announces Dilbert Game Jam — Venture-backed mobile software company Corona Labs has teamed up with the creator of the Dilbert comic strip Venture-backed mobile software company for a mobile game development contest. Developers ...

Shine A Light On Low Light Combat
Platform Nation
In LLC, you play as a ninja, and in keeping with the game jam theme of endless nuclear war, you are powered by nuclear energy. You have 60 seconds of power available to you, but you can earn more time and power by killing other ninjas (the point being ...

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InnoGames to Host Game Jam June 21
Game Politics
German online game developer InnoGames will host a Game Jam in its Hamburg office on June 21. Participants will be charged with developing computer games with a team in a 48-hour period. Teams will have to create graphics, game design and ...

San Francisco Chronicle (blog)
“Dilbert” fans can enter contest to create mobile video game
San Francisco Chronicle (blog)
The Dilbert Game Jam ends July 12 and the winner will be selected about a week later by none other than “Dilbert” creator and Pleasanton resident Scott Adams. Corona Labs is offering its mobile development platform Corona SDK, which the company says ...

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Indie Showcase: Circulets – the Making of a Two-Player, Local Multiplayer Game
Gamesauce
Around that time, Yadu jumped into Global Game Jam 2013 with a few friends and ended up making 'less than three', a local synchronous multiplayer for the PC. 'less than three' (a play on the heart emoticon <3) was an experiment on a concept we have ...

Wireless researchers host 'Game-Jam'
MIT News
From May 17 – May 19, the group will host a location-based, Android “Game-Jam,” a two-day event dedicated to bringing game developers together to build a host of mobile games that will aid in this research. The hosts are looking for game developers ...

How we made a top seller game
Postnoon
Around the time, Yadu jumped into Global Game Jam 2013 with a few friends and ended up making 'less than three', a local synchronous multiplayer for the pc. 'less than three' (a play on the heart emoticon <3) was an experiment on a concept we have been ...

Edge
Bossa Studio's Jackson on creating “emergent humour” in Surgeon Simulator 2013
Edge
Surgeon Simulator 2013 was created in 48 hours during the 2013 Global Game Jam. Since then, it's seen an explosion of popularity on the Internet due to its obtuse controls and dark humor. As a result, creators Bossa Studios have created a fully ...

Gamesauce
Kajak Games' Julius Fondem on Winning the Wooga Game Jam 2013 with Late ...
Gamesauce
It was the end of January, and I was told by my fellow classmates at the Kajak Game Development Lab that Wooga was organizing their very first Wooga Game Jam at their office in Berlin, from the 15th to the 17th of March. I thought “this is really cool ...

The Friday Morning Listen: Charles Bukowski – Hostage (1994)
Something Else! Reviews
This weekend in Manchester, New Hampshire, teams of gaming enthusiasts will lock themselves in for 36 hours for a “board game hackathon,” also known as the NH Game Jam. The idea here is that the teams are presented with a theme at the start of the ...

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A Game Where The Princess Doesn't Want To Be Rescued
Kotaku Australia
At the Toronto Game Jam (TOJam) over the weekend, indie developers from all over the place got together and made some games. They're still in the process of being pulled together and put online, but one that's caught my eye is Knight & Damsel. I came ...

Daily Mail
Prank 'Guillotine Simulator' gives players a historical perspective - GlobalPost
GlobalPost
The Exile Game Jam takes place on the Danish island of Zealand, lodged between the Baltic and North seas. It was during this year's May 1-5 event that two designers created "Disunion." "Disunion" developer André Berlemont traveled 800 miles from Paris ...
Off with their heads . . . for fun ! Game designers create simulator so ...Daily Mail
Guillotine Simulator : Sims are Getting Weirder & WeirderTechnabob (blog)

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A Game Where The Princess Doesn't WANT To Be Rescued - Kotaku
Kotaku
A Game Where The Princess Doesn't WANT To Be Rescued. At the Toronto Game Jam (TOJam) over the weekend, indie developers from all over the place got together and made some games. They're still in the process of being pulled together and put ...

Daily Mail
Off with their heads . . . for fun ! Game designers create simulator so ...
Daily Mail
Creators, Unicorn7, said: 'Disunion is an Oculus Rift experience created during the Exile Game Jam. 'This is basically an old french guillotine simulator.' The creators behind the game regularly upload 'quirky' games that everyone can play. Friends can ...
Guillotine Simulator : Sims are Getting Weirder & WeirderTechnabob (blog)

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Guillotine Simulator : Sims are Getting Weirder & Weirder
Technabob (blog)
Disunion was made by Erkki Trummal, André Berlemont and Morten Brunbjerg during the Exile Game Jam. You can download a Windows build of Disunion on Unicorn7. I wonder if it lets you look at your body after you've been decapitated. At that point you'll ...

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Oculus Rift can now simulate your own beheading, if you're that way inclined
PCGamesN
Disunion: The Guillotine Simulator was made in two days at the Exile Game Jam by Erkki Trummal, Andre Berlemont and Morten Brunbjerg. It asks players to place their head on the block, or chair, or coffee table, and stare blearily into the basket ...

Press Start: Indie games on PlayStation 4, Assassin's Creed creator "fired ...
The Guardian
An interesting entry in the recent LudumDare game jam: i need to lie down could be thought of as an abstract expressionist horror game. You also wouldn't be far off if you called it an anxiety simulator. The controls and the core concept are simple ...

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Geek
Oculus Rift used to simulate a guillotine
Geek
At the Exile Game Jam held in Denmark over the weekend, an experiment was attempted using an Oculus Rift development kit. Developer André Berlemont implemented a guillotine simulator called Disunion for use with the Rift in just two days. The final ...

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Because No One Demanded It, Here Is A Guillotine Simulator For The Oculus Rift
Geekosystem
Developed over the weekend at Denmark's Exile Game Jam by the team of Erkki Trummal, Andre Berlemont and Morten Brunbjerg, Disunion lets you finally experience the thrill of being decapitated before a throng of people screaming for chance to kick your ...