Startup Hackathon & Global Game Jam 2012
by Luis Rodrigues · 12/21/2011 (1:40 pm) · 7 comments
Just posting this here case anyone is interested and in the area:
Taken from GameCamp Edmonton's web site:
Startup Edmonton and GameCamp Edmonton join forces to bring you Startup Hackathon and Global Game Jam - the city's biggest-ever 54 hour marathon of coding, design, and lots of energy drinks. Make an app, make a game - just make something people want. Developers, designers, marketers, players, and startup enthusiasts come together to share ideas, form teams, build products and launch startups. Beginning with open mic pitches on Friday, attendees bring their best ideas and inspire others to join their team. Over the weekend, teams focus on customer development, validating their ideas, and culminating in a final demo night where teams show off their prototypes and receive valuable feedback.
Date: January 27 - 29, 2012
-Time: 7pm on January 27
-Location: University of Alberta
-Cost: $65 Earlybird Registartion - ends January 19
-------$85 Late Registration - ends January 27
-------$25 Students, (subsidized by sponsors)
-------Ticket price includes registration fee, snacks/drinks, plus lunch and dinner on Sat & Sun.
Click here to purchase your tickets!
Taken from GameCamp Edmonton's web site:
Startup Edmonton and GameCamp Edmonton join forces to bring you Startup Hackathon and Global Game Jam - the city's biggest-ever 54 hour marathon of coding, design, and lots of energy drinks. Make an app, make a game - just make something people want. Developers, designers, marketers, players, and startup enthusiasts come together to share ideas, form teams, build products and launch startups. Beginning with open mic pitches on Friday, attendees bring their best ideas and inspire others to join their team. Over the weekend, teams focus on customer development, validating their ideas, and culminating in a final demo night where teams show off their prototypes and receive valuable feedback.
Date: January 27 - 29, 2012
-Time: 7pm on January 27
-Location: University of Alberta
-Cost: $65 Earlybird Registartion - ends January 19
-------$85 Late Registration - ends January 27
-------$25 Students, (subsidized by sponsors)
-------Ticket price includes registration fee, snacks/drinks, plus lunch and dinner on Sat & Sun.
Click here to purchase your tickets!
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Started Programming age 12 on 48kb ZX Spectrum than moved to Turbo Pascal, Turbo C++, Delphi, Java, etc. Currently Working as a programmer of in-house tools 4 a technical translations company, and working with WinterLeaf Entertainment on off days
#2
But i do love this sort of event so anything i can do to spread the word i will
There is an event here too in January - not sure i can attend but would love too.
A company called BioDroid will be accepting pitches for games.
Now if only i could get a prototype up and running by then...
12/21/2011 (2:23 pm)
sorry Logan but i live way across the big pound - too far to be thereBut i do love this sort of event so anything i can do to spread the word i will
There is an event here too in January - not sure i can attend but would love too.
A company called BioDroid will be accepting pitches for games.
Now if only i could get a prototype up and running by then...
#3
12/22/2011 (2:52 am)
I wish such events would also be in Switzerland. Here is much death end, about game dev. Most Swiss developers work outside of my country. Hopefully this will change some day! 
#5
12/22/2011 (7:31 am)
@ Frank: you be from switzertland? sry Luis to be off topic:) 
#6
The information posted above is just for the Edmonton, Alberta, Canada event which I am helping to organize and run as a part of our IDGA Edmonton and GameCamp Edmonton networking and advocacy efforts for the industry (which I find incredibly cool that someone noticed it via twitter, from outside of the region I intended it for, and posted it here to promote not just what we are doing in Edmonton, but the GGJ experiance). So please do not think that this is something that is unique to just one location.
Also please note that while this particular event has a cover charge (to cover the cost of the meals, drinks and snacks throughout the days) a bunch of GGJ sites are free. Any costs are totally up to the guys running it and what they are putting it towards.
12/22/2011 (8:08 am)
Actually there might be an event near you guys (check out the Global Game Jam site). Global Game Jam is a world wide initiative to challenge game developers to come up with a concept, prototype or complete game in just a weekend. It is not a competition, just a challenge.The information posted above is just for the Edmonton, Alberta, Canada event which I am helping to organize and run as a part of our IDGA Edmonton and GameCamp Edmonton networking and advocacy efforts for the industry (which I find incredibly cool that someone noticed it via twitter, from outside of the region I intended it for, and posted it here to promote not just what we are doing in Edmonton, but the GGJ experiance). So please do not think that this is something that is unique to just one location.
Also please note that while this particular event has a cover charge (to cover the cost of the meals, drinks and snacks throughout the days) a bunch of GGJ sites are free. Any costs are totally up to the guys running it and what they are putting it towards.
#7
Given that, there's no reson you can't do something like that in your area if you get some people on board with you if there isn't an official one - or contact the guys that manage the GGJ and try to get one in your area next year (they will probably need people to take care of the organization there so only do it if you already have people on board and some planning done - might not be required but would sure help i think)
@Fasel - Don't worry about that - this events are also a good way to find who's in your area - wich is what you are doing - so not that off topic
12/24/2011 (11:21 am)
Logan is right - Although never saw one happening in my area - i did propose to run one at my university last year and they thought the ideas was cool - but they wanted me to handle everything myself - wich i couldn'tGiven that, there's no reson you can't do something like that in your area if you get some people on board with you if there isn't an official one - or contact the guys that manage the GGJ and try to get one in your area next year (they will probably need people to take care of the organization there so only do it if you already have people on board and some planning done - might not be required but would sure help i think)
@Fasel - Don't worry about that - this events are also a good way to find who's in your area - wich is what you are doing - so not that off topic
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