MORRISVILLE, NY— Morrisville State College is among a handful of locations in New York State serving as a jam site for the 2017 Global Game Jam ™ (GGJ), the world’s largest game creation event, taking place Jan. 20-22.
GGJ is a fast-paced, 48-hour digital “jam session” which gives teams of artists, hobbyists, programmers and gamers throughout the world a chance to brainstorm, innovate, collaborate and develop new ideas for game design.
GGJ begins at MSC on Friday, Jan. 20 at 5 p.m. in Charlton Hall with a videoconference and unveiling of this year’s theme.
Teams, some of which are formed on-site, spend the next 48 hours brainstorming and designing a new video game from scratch without any outside help. All finished GGJ games will be archived on to a Game Jam website for everyone to play.
This is the eighth year MSC will be serving as a host site for the international event, now in its ninth year. Some of the games participants at the Morrisville site have created include: Traps: The Spanish Adventurer (a journey to prove capability as an adventurer, by collecting all of the gold); Ex-Extinction (Sir Captain Rawrington must save his dinosaur ancestors from the incoming asteroid onslaught); Flight Team Phoenix (pilot a phoenix spaceship and eliminate alien enemies) and Cardiac Canyon (a hiker tumbles down a cliff and must follow his heart to lead him through the dark and back to his camp).
For more information about GGJ at MSC visit www.morrisville.edu/gamejam, contact Richard Marcoux, Ph.D., at 315.684.6788 or e-mail him at marcourp@morrisville.edu.
Morrisville will be streaming live during portions of the event which will be broadcast on the GGJ Twitch Central Channel.
Registration for the Morrisville site is still open for students and non-students over the age 18 of all skills levels at www.morrisville.edu/gamejam. The $10 registration fee includes a T-shirt.
For more information on the Global Game Jam, including a database of downloadable games, photos and video from the events and more, visit: http://globalgamejam.org.
Morrisville State College’s curricula are enriched with applied learning and pave the way for opportunity at both the Morrisville and Norwich campuses. An action-oriented, interactive learning lab, the college is a national leader in technology and has been lauded for its exemplary, innovative and effective community service programs.
The college was ranked among the Best Regional Colleges in the North by U.S. News and World Report Best Colleges 2017 issue and was also recognized in the Top Public Schools, Regional Colleges North in the 2017 Best Colleges rankings. For more information about Morrisville State College, visit www.morrisville.edu.
Global Game Jam history
2009 Game Jam—53 sites, 23 countries, 1,650 participants, 370 games
2010 Game Jam—138 sites, 39 countries, 4,300 participants, 900 games
2011 Game Jam—169 sites, 44 countries, 6,500 participants, 1,500 games
2012 Game Jam—242 sites, 47 countries, 10,684 participants, 2,209 games
2013 Game Jam—319 sites, 63 countries, 16,705 participants, 3,248 games
2014 Game Jam—488 sites, 72 countries, 23,189 participants, 4,292 games
2015 Game Jam—518 sites, 78 countries, 28,000 participants, 5,438 games.
2016 Game Jam— 632 sites, 93 countries, 36,164 participants, 6,866 games.
Morrisville State College is among handful of locations in New York State hosting Global Game Jam January 20-22
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