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[KommanderKlobb]

So I'm planning another game jam like the one we had after the London World of Love.. only this time I have a theme planned..

A friend of mine is the Educational Coordinator of an Art Gallery called Cubitt. They run a project called Everybody Draw, where they go into primary schools and supervise the kids drawing for an afternoon. Each session generates about 30 large pages of material drawn by kids aged 5 to 11. There's some info here: http://cubittartists.org.uk/index.php?section=14

I'm planning to arranging a jam where the aim would be to make games using this art - ideally ones which are appropriate for collecting on a website and sending back to the school, so the kids can have a kind of christmas gift of being able to play a bunch of games made with art they drew in the previous term. We're thinking that the best stuff will be by the 5-7 year olds (both boys and girls).

I have it pencilled in for the weekend of the 4th and 5th of December - I've checked with our serviced offices here, and they can let us use the same meeting room as before, which fits 25 people comfortably, and slightly more with increasing discomfort

I guess that provided there's a reasonable amount of interest from people who are available on that date, my next move will be to set up an EventBrite page and get the team at Cubitt to start photographing/scanning this term's drawings.

[Nugsy]

I can't be there as i live too far away from London, but i would like to say that this is a brilliant idea.
I know i would have loved to have seen my drawings made into a game when i was a kid!

[LeFishy]

Man I would totally be up for this if I can scratch the cash together.

[v21]

Hey, I was also trying to organize a gamejam in London in the near future. But it seems you may have the edge on the Hackspace (http://london.hackspace.org.uk/) on capacity. And are slightly more advanced in your organization. So: I'm interested, let me know if you need a hand (and I know there was a lot of interest at London Indies).

[Gwinnell]

Busy that weekend. I'll let know if anything changes.

[Perrin]

I've got nothing else marked down in my calendar for that weekend so provisionally I'm in!

[KommanderKlobb]

Okay folks, I've created an Eventbrite page for the Jam here:

http://everybodydrawgamejam.eventbrite.com

[brian]

I'll be there or i'll be square!

I'm not quite sure what being square is so I better be there.

[ink.inc]

it's hip to be a square

[Flimgoblin]

even line upgrades between Swindon and Didcot Parkway couldn't stop me from being there...

Hrm, I'm not so good at the bravado, switch that with "wild horses" or something in your mind and pretend I'll have battled my way through a warzone or something.

(signed up!)

[wilbefast]

Dang - I'll be in London for Christmas but not early December 

Sounds cool though - y'all have fun 

[Sigz]

I'll be there! I'm pretty much a total noob when it comes to game development, but it still sounds like fun 

[increpare]

I've been thinkin' about this.  THINKIN.

[brian]

Well i'm turning out to be square for today, I woke up at least 3 times during the night being rather violently ill, I think I must've ate something odd but I have no idea what. I haven't been sick in a good 5 hours now so hopefully i'll be good for tomorrow. Hope everyone is having fun!

[increpare]

I'm having fun.

[Flimgoblin]

Was much fun

There's a list of the games made over on the Cambridge Indies site:
http://www.cambridgeindies.co.uk/events/everybody-draw-game-jam-london

[Sigz]

Yeah, was a ton of fun. My game got completely effed in Construct though, so I couldn't complete it in time 

[Flimgoblin]

Shame I had to miss the second day would have been nice to put a bit more time into the animations et al./finish it off a bit better.