Event: 2012 Vancouver Chapter of the Global Game Jam
Date/ Time: Friday, January 27 to Sunday, January 29, 2012
Game deadline, review Game Jam Vancouver:
Sunday, January 29, 3:00 p.m. – 5:00 p.m.
Presentation of Game Jam Vancouver favourites:
Sunday, January 29, 5:00 p.m. – 6:00 p.m.
Location: UBC Life Science Centre Atrium, 2350 Health Sciences Mall
For a map and closest parking, visit: http://www.maps.ubc.ca?529
Vancouver’s hottest young video-game talents face off this weekend at Vancouver’s Global Game Jam 2012, part of a 48-hour, world-wide programming marathon.
Video-game developers, artists and sound engineers from local universities and colleges will race the clock to create playable, polished games. Scott Jones, host of Reviews on the Run and Electric Playground, and Blaine Kyllo of the Georgia Straight will help review the final products.
The weekend is a semi-competitive, soft drink- and pizza-fuelled celebration that closes with a grand presentation of crowd favourites and a professional review of the games.
With 150 participants, the UBC-hosted event is the largest of over 90 concurrent Global Game Jams being held worldwide. More than 80 of the participants are UBC students. This is the third year that Vancouver has participated in Global Game Jam.
To review footage from last year’s Vancouver Game Jam, visit: www.ggjvancouver2012.com
For more information, contact:
Kimberly Voll
Department of Computer Science, Faculty of Science
kvoll@cs.ubc.ca
Cell: 778-996-2235
Office: 604-822-2563
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Related topics: Global Game Jam, learning, studentlife, UBC, Vancouver, video games, video-game competition, video-game programming marathon
