Students, graduates and professional developers working together at GGJ2018

This year’s GGJ was held at Accelerator Building in Shoreditch again – it was another exciting weekend that saw current students working alongside professionals to create games in 48 hours. This year’s theme was TRANSMISSION. We were delighted to see some of our Londonmet Games graduates there – artists Matthew Isteed, Ana Da Mota and Quoc Luu joined current students Tom Carr, Erik di Biase and Filippo Libardi at the event.

Winter Mraz and Andrew Watson during the brainstorming session

http://globalgamejam.org/2017/jam-sites/londonmet-accelerator-global-game-jam

This year’s Global Game Jam at Londonmet Accelerator is in full swing as I write this post.  The theme is WAVES, released on Friday evening.  Concepts have been discussed, teams have been formed and everyone is calmly working on their games, fuelled with pizza and pop.  The twitch livestream can be accessed from the site link, pictures on flickr below…

Artist Andrew Waton works with our student programming team – David Harper, Erik Di Biase, Filippo Lipardi, Dimitri Xitas and Alex Limbrick

Check Steve Blunt’s photos on flickr above and also the Faculty set on Facebook:

https://www.facebook.com/FLSCLondonMet/photos/?tab=album&album_id=1053442728082660

Brainstorming

On Tuesday 22nd September, Londonmet’s team of toy-makers and hackers took part in the first ever ToyJam, organised by Toy News as part of the Inventor’s Workshop.

Concept art

The team consisted of Games Programmers  Zion Siton, George Anderson and Dimitri Xita with Games Modelling and Effects students Winter Milek, Quoc Luu and Robyn Sarah Andrews.

The brief was to design a new social toy or game for their own generation, and they came up with PingPlay.  The judges commented that our team had the best concept!

Inventor’s Workshop is an annual conference aimed at new toy designers, which brings them together with industry professionals to hear about new innovations and pitch ideas.

http://www.londonmet.ac.uk/news/news-stories/university-news-2015/september/toyjam/

Pitching the idea

(http://galapagosconservation.org.uk/event_listings/re-discovering-galapagos-day/)

The students designed and developed a 3D Tortoise Tracking game over the summer, which will be part of an educational package delivered to school children in the Galapagos and Key Stage 2 and 3 children in UK, helping them to learn about conservation in the islands.

The Tortoise Tracking game was a real hit at the event, attracting many members of the public.  In the game, players take the role of a conservationist dealing with environmental hazards that prevent tortoises migrating in order to lay eggs.

The project was initially conceived by Dan Wright and Jen Jones from the Galapagos Conservation Trust, with advice from Dr Stephen Blake from the Galapagos TortoiseMovement Ecology Programme.

The team on Monday morning

Zion Siton, Alex Owen, Ashrakur Rahman, Michal Chmielewski and Andrew Braid – this year’s Londonmet team at the Brains Eden 48 hour Gamejam at Anglia Ruskin University, July 2014.  The team developed “Scramble”, writing their own physics engine in Actionscript.

48 hours later…

Londonmet team hit the Brains Eden Gamejam on 28th June, ready for 48 hours of designing and developing in Cambridge.  This year’s team was Max Morris, Marcus Oldfield, Alex Owen, Fergus Murphy and Harry Corke.

The theme was “mountains” and their game was “Dwarficide”, link to follow…

Follow the team’s progress at http://beardedbadger.com…

First attempts at 3D printing from second year BSc Computer Games Modelling and Design students working on their Digital Toy Design module – planes and lollipop trees from Mo, van bodywork from Amir.  Fergus did some laser cutting (below).  These will all soon be transformed into digital toys.

The first XX GameJam, in association with Ada Lovelace Day and London Games Festival, took place in Mind Candy offices on Oct 26 and 27, 2012, sponsored by UKIE. The theme was “Clockwork”.

Second year Games Programming student Nikki Gordon’s team came second with “The Dastardly Carillon” developed in Unity … Nikki created all the sound effects using Reason.

Fiona French mentored one of the other teams, helping to develop “Tick Tock Terror”.

Press: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-20186937