Global Game Jam

Cool, I might go since Antwerp is about an half hour from where I live

I have been to the last two Nordic Game Jams, which is where the idea originates from and it's definitely something I can recommend. In particular if you are in a fairly specialized position then it's cool be doing something completely else than your day job.

I'll be at the Belgian GameJam in Antwerps together with my colleagues. Considering its in our office building and partly being organized by us.

Nysuatro & Punky, be sure to bring your own laptops or something. Since I don't think we have any available desktop machines for the participants to use.

On that note I just have to tell a story about my first game jam in 2007. I ended up in a group where we wanted to developed in Unity as that was clearly a very promising platform and there were people on site to help us with technical issues. We did however have a serious lack of Macs in the group, which is required as the Unity dev IDE does not run on Windows.

We tried to call around to friends and see if we could borrow some macs, but this only gave us one more. So we had to drive over to IO, where a bunch of us worked, and grap one of the Xbox devkits which are actually based on Apple hardware. This is quite a paradox considering how much competetion there is between Apple and Microsoft and yet Microsoft used Apple hardware due to these having an IBM PowerPC like the Xbox.

the first presentations of the xbox 360 used power mac's in the background. the xbox case was just a placeholder and not even wired

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well it's an open "secret" microsoft has invested into apple over the last few years and bought stocks to gain influence (see bootcamp development etc). i'm not so surprised they are using these for development as these systems are normed (in opposite to PCs which can have endless numbers of HW configurations)...

I just checked the dates, and unfortunately I won't make it, I'm only 16, so I have to be at school, it would have been nice to go there though, it's so close, and I could meet other people with the same interests, it would be the first time for me to go to a gamedev "meeting/workshop".

Being a young level-designer can really suck sometimes

yeah HP, yeah

lol