30th
DAY 1
So. It is nearly time for perhaps the most high pressured, caffein heavy game dev competitions in the world - the Scottish Game Jam.
Students and professionals will forgo sleep for 48 hours to develop a fully playable video game. To ensure that development is all within the set 48 hrs every game must be aligned with a number of rigid criteria, which are not revealed to the world until 5 pm tonight. Before that we have a number of registration events so that competitors can bond, and identify their preferred team mates. This is of vital importance due to the stress of the competition, and the lack of sleep is guaranteed to end in friction.
Scottish Game Jam is organised by Jon Sykes and Romana Khan - with Romana doing most of the hard graft. The competition is sponsored by top Scottish game companies - Denki, Real Time Worlds and Firebrand who will both judge the local teams, and provide prizes for the top 3 teams..
The Scottish competition is part of Global Game Jam, which this year will involve 1750 participants, across 52 sites, in 23 countries - spanning 14 time zones.
MEDIA
You can follow us on the webcam from 5pm at: www.ustream.tv/channel/scottish-global-game-jam
You can see photos of the event at: www.flickr.com/photos/manak
You can follow our twitterings at: www.twitter.com/globalgamejam and www.twitter.com/romanakhan
You can read our blog here - which will be updated throughout the day
