U-tad has announced that the third edition of the Game Jam On will take place from 20 to 22 January in Madrid, Especially focusing (not only) games for Virtual Reality, Augmented or Mixed.
Thus the teams participating may use of resources and benefits available (dispositivos y mentores) para crear un juego que haga uso de alguna de esas «nuevas» tecnologías.
Of course, you can also create any other normal game, the only requirement is made in the 48 hours lasting the hackathon and is the proposed theme of the day of the event.
The event will be part of the Global Game Jam to be held simultaneously in 600 offices in 90 different countries, already published the diversifiers for this year.
At the end of the set time, a specialized jury will give different prizes to the best games delivered within counting the winner with help from Video Game Army to polish the final version to put it on sale.
A Game Jam is a game Hackathon. A marathon programming, creativity, art and passion.
Here you can see a video of the 2015 edition:
It is certainly a very interesting event if you are involved in the world of creating games, so if you are interested in attending, either alone or in teams (open enrollment until full capacity), you can see all the information and planning, as well as log-in from their Web page.
We hope that if you watching the Game Jam On and do something interesting to Virtual Reality may tell us!
Here you have the agenda of the event:
Friday, January 20
- 4:00 p.m.. Reception of participants and networking in U-tad.
- 5:00 p.m.. Introducing the 'Game Jam On'.
- 18.00. Formation of groups.
- 19.00 - 24.00h. Development of the games.
Saturday, January 21
- 00.00 - 24.00h. Development of U-tad games.
Sunday, January 22
- 0- 18.00. Development of the games.
- 24:00. Interview teams to view the status of the games.
- 19.00. Awards ceremony and closing ceremony
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