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well, i hope another thread wasn't made about this already.

anyway
i think the next TIGJam should be held in Seattle or Portland.  It seems to be not terribly far from people, at least in comparison to Arizona.  I'm not sure about where it can be held.  Let's find out if Seattle or Portland are good ideas, and if so, who's gonna host, when, etc.

Both Seattle and Portland are really great cities.  Portland is the world capital of indie, and Seattle is the world capital of.. salmon?

anyway, let's brainstorm and etc.
no rush though, i mean, it's going to happen in Fall 2009.

Except for everyone who lives east of arizona, of course.  Not to mention the jam was organized by Flashbang, who are based, TA DAAAAAA, in Arizona.

D:

well, there's quite a west coast contingent of TIGers

I think Flashbang is set on hosting it again, with a bigger venue this time around based on the amount of interest for the last one.

Being Canadian, I probably shouldn't post in this thread, but what the heck.

I think due to geography we're going to need to start having multiple Jams, and maybe not even by country.  Eg. a Jam in Vancouver or Seattle could accommodate both West Coast Canadians and Americans, and a Jam in Toronto or NYC could accommodate Easterners of both countries too.

Also, trying to have all these Jams at the same time is cool (eg. Fall 2009), but probably a bad idea if we actually want them to happen.

I would very probably be able to attend a Jam in Seattle.

I would almost certainly not be able to attend a Jam in Arizona.

Therefore I vote yes on Seattle.

this is my situation as well.

You know, I still think there needs to be a Canadian Jam (or multiple Canadian Jams).  There does seem to be 5-10 if you add Alberta and B.C. together.

I guess multi-national Jams would be cool too; from what I've heard though, it's a lot easier for Americans to visit Canada than it is for us to visit the US, so my preference is Vancouver if we're talking West Coast.  It's not that far from Seattle.

I was going to suggest something adjacent to GDC so that visiting internationals could play. GDC is already awesome though, so this probably isn't necessary.

I was under the impression that something was happening anyway.

I think we should start a poll. I vote for NYC.

i think we should split off into a couple TIGjams, as opposed to either totally fucking over the west or the east coast

Exactly what I've said all along.  And when I first suggested this in the TIGJam Canada thread, I suggested that they be Dueling Jams.  You know, to be epic and all.  An epic battle of game developing. (West would totally win btw!)

TIGJam is cool, I don't know if I'd belong there though, I wouldn't get any work done, I'd just get drunk and make racial slurs.  :beer:

Then you MUST be there!!!

My vote would be for the east coast as well. :)

I can has east coast plox? I mean, seriously. At least one of next year's NA jams needs to be on the east coast... otherwise I'll never be able to get there.

hahaha, well we'll see. If I were to come I'd wear a powerglove for the entire weekend. But I don't know if it's up my alley. Seems like fun, though.  :beer:

Have you used your powerglove with GlovePIE?  Because if not then I think you're crazy and totally wasting that glove.

portland! but i guess i could get up to seattle. i definitely think there is room enough in the country for multiple tigjams. i think they should be held where ever there are enough people to attend them

To be honest, I really haven't. Although, I am fully aware of GlovePIE's capabilities. It's a mixture of laziness and a lack of things I could do once I have the glove hooked up. I just don't need it for anything, but I suppose I could try for shits and giggles.

Anyone up for a Jam in the Triangle, North Carolina?

I'm not really sure who could host the venue, though, so it might be sort of a non-starter.

i like chicago, not like my parents would let me go or anything, though.

I'd see TIGJam as an opportunity to get help from others who actually know how to make games, so that I could actually learn how to do some stuff. Granted, most of my  lack of game making skills comes from procrastination, but whatever.

Still, I'd love to go there, randomly press buttons on a computer in hopes that it does something, and party.

Also I vote yes on Prop 5347713.

Hey, neato, you can make all of Seattle in leetspeak.

The only good thing about Seattle is that you can race through it's sewers as Donald Duck in a Go-Kart.

OH MY GOD I REMEMBER THAT
shit was soooo cash.

 :-X keep it in /b/. :-X

:-X keep it in /tigs/ :-X

Ah, Seattle. Home. Now if I still lived there I would be game but I am in the middle. Yes, Oklahoma. So really I guess east or west is fine by me, the only ting I would be worried about is money. If I knew in advance when we were having it I just might be able to come...

I'm going to be moving to Portland in a couple of weeks, so my vote would obviously be for Portland, but the train ride to Seattle is nice.

Of course, with travel costs being what they are these days, I think it makes sense to have regional TIGJams, but it would be nice to have some sort of connection between them.

you guys are forgetting, for TIGjam a location capable of holding the people, wireless, etc. is needed. The reason for Arizona was because Flashbang was willing to hold the people and supply their needs.

If you're doing regional jams, they'll probably be smaller than the main US Jam. It'd probably be better to give them a different name to avoid confusion.

Good idea, corpus

If someone threw a TIGJam in, say, Seattle, I would probably attend.

How about we schedule them all on the same weekend and keep an IRC channel open for all the participants?

People with webcams could even put up live streams of each regional Jam.

All of this talk is absolutely meaningless if someone doesn't actually step up to host. Enough with I vote here! or I poll for this! Someone has to foot the bill, someone has to plan and get it together. It pisses me off to hear this talk of oh if someone else did something I'd attend... maybe...

Finally somebody gets it! XD

You have to have somebody who can host everybody's needs, not just a "cool" location. I.E. Why Flashbang hosted in Arizona. Which I have been saying the entire time...

I might be up for this too (still a long drive, but not much worse than, say, Vancouver would be).

I definitely agree with you Powergloved Andy, so maybe we should think about the other big side to this: time of year.  The Jam last year being late September (I think?) wasn't bad, but for those of us in university I think it's a little harder to just leave campus and go off to a TIGJam (unless the Jam is in your city).  Because of this the only school-year Jam I could go to would have to be in Winnipeg, and actually, in terms of finding a space and having hosts, Alec and Infinite Ammo seem to have looked into that a little bit (Wrong thread though, this being the U.S. one and all).  I guess my preference would be Jams in the summer, as it's a lot easier to take a bit of time off work and head to a Jam than it is during the school year.  It also leaves open the possibility of road trips for those that have quite the distance to travel.

I don't care where this is I want to be there and I want to play music live.