Dominique Finnegan’s Invasion air hockey board

Students brought their new game designs into class to test – see more of the work here: Toy making 2017 on Flickr

Team photo

Erik, Dimitri, Ana and Quoc worked tirelessly all weekend at this year’s Global Game Jam, hosted by Londonmet at Accelerator.  They were part of a team developing “A Clowny Day”, inspired by this year’s theme: RITUAL

http://globalgamejam.org/2016/games/clowny-day

Tyanah leads Werewolf game

The jam kicked off on Friday evening with a keynote and the release of the secret theme, then some brainstorming and ice-breaking with Londonmet Computer Games Programming graduate Tyanah Graham, who reprised her role as Mistress of Werewolf.

Then it was down to business, as teams began to work on their ideas and settle in for a hard night of digital work.  Some of the jammers stayed overnight, sleeping on the floor – 48 hours to make a game requires a lot of stamina!

On Saturday, graduates Ashley Mackenzie and Chris Newsum visited the site to meet new students and talk about their careers since graduation.  Ashley is a lighting expert, currently working for Cloud Imperium Games while Chris works at Rocksteady Studios, doing game testing.

Chris and Ashley talk to Ana, Dimitri and Quoc

We also had a visit from Gorm Lai, one of the founders of the Global Game Jam, luckily captured on our twitch live stream…

The jam wound up on Sunday, when teams had to upload their final games to the GGJ site by 3pm.  We did some play-testing and a show-n-tell, hearing how everyone had approached the theme.  With over 40 participants, it was a busy, exciting weekend and some awesome games were produced – check out all the GGJ games here: http://globalgamejam.org/2016/jam-sites/london-metropolitan-university/games

Programmers hard at work

Creating some art

In production

Andrew, Zion, Matthew, Michal and Alex

Team Londonmet were shortlisted again this year for their game “Penguin Fall”, developed in 48 hours as part of the Brains Eden GameJam 2015 at Anglia Ruskin University (http://www.brainseden.net/).

Matthew’s chilly penguin

This year’s theme was “displacement”, given to teams on Friday at 5pm.

BSc Games Modelling, Animation and Effects graduates Matthew Isteed and Michal Chmielewski created graphics for the game, while BSc Computer Games Programming graduates Zion Siton, Alex Owen and Andrew Braid developed the code and devised some fiendishly tricky levels.

Playing the game

Major games company Jagex laid on hospitality for everyone at their studio on Sunday evening and the team had individual meetings with industry professionals and recruitment consultants.  The students who took part are a talented bunch with great team-working skills.  We are very proud of how they represented us!

Hard at work

Game design students showcase and test their prototype physical games.  See the flickr set here.

Leandro’s game

Robyn’s game

Stephen’s game

 

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