After the incredible experience that was the Autumn 2012 Exile Game Jam, I most certainly couldn’t miss the Spring 2013 edition of the jam! Hosted by Kanako and the Vallekilde Højskole, the Exile Game Jam is a small 5 day game jam hosted at the Vallekilde Højskole in Hørve, Vestsjælland. I joined the mass of people all leaving together [...]
If you follow my blog, you might remember my escapades with Sugarush during the Nordic Game Jam 2012, where we made Mussades, and the Nordic Game Jam 2013, where we made Beast Builder. Enter Kvasir Games! We’ve decided to reorganize, regroup and restructure our efforts and have committed ourselves to getting the games we’ve made out onto the market. [...]
A year has passed since I attended my first Nordic Game Jam back in 2012, and suddenly, this year’s edition of the Nordic Game Jam has also come and gone. This year, the Nordic Game Jam was the biggest game jam in the world with over 470 participants. It also moved location to the Aalborg [...]
Last week, I left Copenhagen to go to the Exile Game Jam – Autumn 2012 held at the Vallekilde Højskole in Hørve, Vestsjælland. The event started on Wednesday and finished on Sunday, and it was definitely one of the best game jam experiences I have ever had! I arrived at Københavns Hovebanegård on Wednesday to catch [...]
Although I was meant to be busy this weekend programming a Ms. Pac-Man controller using artificial intelligence techniques for the Modern AI in Games course at ITU, I found some time to drop by at the first game jam organized by PlayIT, the student organization at ITU. The game jam was called JamIT 2012 and [...]
I attended the TEDxCopenhagen event held on the 18th of September expecting to be amazed and inspired, and I was! For people unfamiliar with TED talks, they’re a series of inspiring talks that are held every year at TED conferences. TEDx events are similar in scope and feel, but are independently organized events, usually centred [...]
On Wednesday, 12th September, I attended the first Game Talk Mini event held and promoted by Vallekilde Højskole. The event’s theme was news games, what they are and how they work; an interesting combination of journalism and games development. The keynote was given by Gonzalo Frasca, who started off his talk by discussing how games were relevant [...]
The summer is over, and it’s time to go back to school! Looking back over the past 3-4 months made me aware of how busy I’ve kept myself, and how time flies as a result. After the end of the second semester at ITU, I decided to find a student job for the summer, and [...]
I recently attended No More Sweden 2012, a game jam held in Malmö, Sweden. The game took place over a weekend and apart from the game jam itself, where people had to make games in 48 hours, the event also featured talks by indie developers as well as massive barbeque. Unfortunately, I missed the talks due [...]
Amidst all the university related work I have to do, I also participated in a worldwide event called the Molydeux Game Jam. This event is similar to a game jam, in the sense that participants must create a game in 48 hours. However, this particular game jam had a special twist, since the game idea [...]
