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The Game Jam Survival Guide
By: Christer Kaitila;
Publisher: Packt Publishing
Pub. Date: April 2 , 2012
Print ISBN-13: 978-1-84969-250-2
Pages in Print Edition: 114
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Overview
Build a game in one crazy weekend and survive to tell the tale!
Enthusiastic and light-hearted, glimpse the excitement and frantic creativity of game jams.
Motivating, encouraging and infectious, it is sure to help you reach the finish line.
Follow this handbook from brainstorming an idea, over bitter obstacles and on to the sweet finish line: a complete, playable, fun game.
Each stage of game jams is described with task lists and anecdotes relating common experiences, the trials and the tribulations of past game jam champions and losers.
Packed with interviews, tips, tricks and wise words from Ludum Dare and Global Game Jam organisers among other well-known game jammers.
In Detail
Game jams are fun. They are a creative, exciting, social experience. The goal of a game jam is to design a video game, either alone or in teams, as fast as is humanly possible; usually in a single weekend.
The Game Jam Survival Guide, written to help you have more fun and achieve greater results at your next game jam by building a successful game without burning out, leads readers through each 12-hour phase of a 48-hour weekend game jam.
Weekend warriors: dominate your next game jam! If you follow the system shared in this book, you will be able to build an amazing game that you're proud of and will entertain players, all in just one crazy 48-hour game jam weekend … and survive to tell the tale!
Embrace the best practices and techniques of past game jam winners and avoid common pitfalls along the way to the finish line. You too can survive a 48-hour game development marathon with your mind intact and an amazing game to show off to friends and family!
With The Game Jam Survival Guide you will learn the secret techniques that master game jammers use to create winning entries. It starts by showing you great ways to brainstorm and design a game based on a theme. It then moves on to highlight the best tools and techniques to finish a game in a weekend of coding. Anecdotes and advice from past winners and losers combined with humorous words of encouragement are sure to help you on your way. The author presents a list of game jams around the world, online communities worth checking out, fantastic game engines, and art resources. Finally, learn how to monetize your game by gaining sponsorship from big gaming websites. It's the fun way to make your own video game in one weekend!
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"Socially networked & motivated gamers/programmers." - by @Far_Niche:Scott R. Plaumann on 17-DEC-2012
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The main theme is about the game creation process within the time constraints of one weekend. This goes from preparation to concept to draft to build to test to polish to submittal over a forty-eight hour timespan. Throughout are addendum links to events exclusively held for this activity to broaden the view of those who and how this all takes place.
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