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We're having a gamejam  during the weekend of the '''11th & 12th June'''.
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= When What How? =
  
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What's a gamejam? I'm glad you asked. A gamejam is like a hackweekend for videogames. You arrive and spend 2 days or so making a necessarily limited videogame, often with other people. It's welcome to beginners - there are plenty of drag-and-drop tools for making videogames - for old broken platformers, there's klik'n'play, for visual novels there's ren'py, and there's a Flash visual gamemaking tool a friend has been working on he'll almost certain bring. The focus is on making some kind of interesting gameplay rather than technical brilliance. Or at least, something "interesting".
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Gamejam will bring amateur game developers, artists or whoever has a cool idea together to make cool games.  This will take place 26th & 27th July in the classroom. The saturday will be mainly for making games, where as if you wanna come by and check out some of our creations, or just play games with us, come by on the sunday and we'll be doing that.
  
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During this gamejam, I propose we make games for the arcade machine currently cluttering up the hallway. This will involve actually fitting a PC within it, and hooking it up to the screen and controls. I'm (George/v21) buying an interface board, but does anyone have:
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= Goal =
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We'll be taking [[Equipment/The Beast|The Beast]] To EMF Camp this year, and we'd like some cool new games to play on it.
  
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* a spare PC we can use for this? It doesn't need to be particularly fast.
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= Ideas =
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* a screen we can replace the CRT with. Wikipedia suggests it has a resolution of 320×224 resolution, which is very small.
 
  
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More to come.
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== Notes ==
 
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Your game should run in fullscreen on Windows at 1024x768, and have a way to quit back to the main menu.
 
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(Power of 2 resolutions of 512x384, 256x192, 128x96, 64x48, 32x24)
 
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=== Controls ===
 
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* Player 1
 
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* Directions: Left Arrow, Right Arrow, Up Arrow, Down Arrow
 
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* Buttons: Z, X, C
 
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* Start: 1
 
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* Player 2
 
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* Directions: J (left), K (down), I (up), L (right)
 
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* Buttons: N, M, B
 
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* Start : 2
 

Latest revision as of 08:45, 4 July 2014

When What How?

Gamejam will bring amateur game developers, artists or whoever has a cool idea together to make cool games. This will take place 26th & 27th July in the classroom. The saturday will be mainly for making games, where as if you wanna come by and check out some of our creations, or just play games with us, come by on the sunday and we'll be doing that.

Goal

We'll be taking The Beast To EMF Camp this year, and we'd like some cool new games to play on it.

Ideas

More to come.

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