TIGJAM UK
Date: 15-17th July 2011
Venue: CB2 Bistro, Cambridge.
A weekend of making games. Everyone welcome, regardless of experience, so long as you're willing to get your hands dirty
People will be about from 10am on the Friday, but Friday being a weekday, people will be arriving all through the day. There are usually plenty of people hanging about for the Monday after as well
Get tickets here:
http://tigjamuk5.eventbrite.com/£10 each, which will be banked and go towards finding a more interesting venue for next jam
See CB2 here:
http://www.cb2bistro.com/You'll be expected to buy food and drink at the venue.
Accommodation:
The
YHA hostel in Cambridge is super convenient - very close to both the train station and CB2! £19.00 per night - Draknek is organising rooms on this thread:
http://forums.tigsource.com/index.php?topic=19930.0Transport:
The event is within walking distance from Cambridge Train Station.
It's easy to get to Cambridge from Stanstead airport, and you can travel up from London Kings Cross or London Liverpool St rail station.
Any questions?
Post here
Or send me a mail at
[email protected]Or send a tweet @cb2indies
Rough idea of what goes on at the jam:
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I take it it's not like a Game Jam though where you get a theme, so I was wondering if people typically do collabs or continue work on something they've already started or wha? I have some small game ideas I'd love to make to take a break from what I'm doing atm, or even helping people out, although I don't know how much help I could be!
Ok, so there're roughly three streams of activity going on in a jam at any point at previous tigjam uks -
1: mini-jams - we tend to have a bunch of three-hourly jams (3/4 a day), themed (pick three themes out of a hat, people can chose any of them, or none, to make a game from). Some people participate in lots of these over the course of the weekend, either alone or in collaboration. Most people won't do all of the jams, but most will participate in a few. Some will keep on working on the mini-jam games well past the 3 hours.
2: people working on pre-existing projects
3: people talking/eating/&c.
#1 has generally been the main focus of the jam. So yeah, if you have small ideas you'd like to try out, this would be a good environment in which to prototype them
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