Global Game Jam is a weekend game conference where individuals get together to create a video or board game within a 48 hour time period.
When I first walked into Global Game Jam I felt very fortunate that my team members where there for moral support. I felt very out of my comfort zone as other jammers started asking me questions about what gaming platforms I used and my coding experience. For the most part, I was just worried that I would not be able to contribute anything useful to my group.
I was very wrong. Game Jam is a great place for creative people to get together and use their varied and unique strengths to create something amazing!
I was very fortunate to be part of a team of people who all specialized in different areas. One member of the team, Julie is a very talented artist who created all of the background images. Ryan and Henry who worked long hard hours to get all the coding to work together. Avery who put together amazing sound effects and music, which played a huge role in setting the tone for the game. Steven, Dylan and Stephanie who worked on the game's storyline and acted out the voices for the game's characters. Which leads to me, I acted as team manager so that our large team could ensure to finish the game within the 48 hour time period.
In the end, our game turned out amazing. I still play it often and it never gets old. It was so amazing to see how a group of 10 people who had never met before were able to pool all their creative ideas together to create something so spectacular. Im so proud of my team and proud to call these people my friends now. We accomplished something which at one point seemed almost impossible.
When I first walked into Global Game Jam I felt very fortunate that my team members where there for moral support. I felt very out of my comfort zone as other jammers started asking me questions about what gaming platforms I used and my coding experience. For the most part, I was just worried that I would not be able to contribute anything useful to my group.
I was very wrong. Game Jam is a great place for creative people to get together and use their varied and unique strengths to create something amazing!
I was very fortunate to be part of a team of people who all specialized in different areas. One member of the team, Julie is a very talented artist who created all of the background images. Ryan and Henry who worked long hard hours to get all the coding to work together. Avery who put together amazing sound effects and music, which played a huge role in setting the tone for the game. Steven, Dylan and Stephanie who worked on the game's storyline and acted out the voices for the game's characters. Which leads to me, I acted as team manager so that our large team could ensure to finish the game within the 48 hour time period.
In the end, our game turned out amazing. I still play it often and it never gets old. It was so amazing to see how a group of 10 people who had never met before were able to pool all their creative ideas together to create something so spectacular. Im so proud of my team and proud to call these people my friends now. We accomplished something which at one point seemed almost impossible.