January 27-29, 2012
IndieCity Global Game Jam 2011 hosted by Birmingham City University
- By PiD at 01/07/2011 - 01:44
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IndieCity Global Game Jam - Registration Full
Sorry folks but that's us all full up for this year!
Itinerary
A rough guide to how the weekend will pan out time wise:
Friday 28th January:
6pm: Registration opens
7:30pm: Keynote/Team building/Theme Reveal/JAM OPENS
This pretty much covers all the way through until Sunday afternoon.
Sunday 30th January:
3pm: JAM STOP - Game upload begins
4:30PM: Presentations/Judging/Prizes
6pm: JAM CLOSES
Facilities
We've got ~ 20 PCs with the following installed:
Unity3D
Unreal UDK
Ogre
Visual Studio 2005 - 2008
XNA 3.x
Dark Basic pro / classic
The Game Creators Dark Basic GDK + Game Studio
FPS Creator
Panda3D
GreenFoot
Maya
Mappy
Blener
Terrain Editor
Flash CS3
You will be able to install tools that you wish as long as they are either free or you are licensed to use them. If you wish to bring along your own laptop then that will be fine, we'll have a wifi network accessible for the duration of the event.
We should be able to set up a local versioning server for use by the teams.
We've got multiple rooms for brainstorming/team meeting use and a separate area for people to sleep in, if they so wish!
There's a cafe on site open during normal hours and a lot of food places within a few mins walk, we're not far out of the centre of Birmingham!
Registration CLOSED
Registration is now closed!