Who am I? Why I do jams? 9

Volvary • 6 years ago on 1st Alakajam! 

Hey everyone, Volvary here!

I always find it interesting to see why people join jams and where they come from, background wise.

As far as background goes, I am a Game Designer at heart, with a Game Programmer training.

My past reasons for joining games jams were multiple (experience, fun, etc), but this time my reason is simple: As a team lead in the medical simulation field, I do not have a lot of time left for Game Dev. So for me, Game Jams are now a reason to drop everything for a weekend and indulge in what I like the most: Game Development.

This time around, I will be potentially joining alone as I do not have a team. However, I would not be against joining a team as one of the programmers if someone is interested.

Comments (9)

Sniperninja564
 • 6 years ago • 

Hi, I've wanted to get into more gamejams. Do you have any recommendations? I'm aiming from 1 week to 72 hours!

Wan
 • 6 years ago • 

Thanks for sharing your background, It's always interesting indeed! Same with me, I find game jams are great to just unplug my brain from the daily routine and go full creative mode :) If you would prefer finding teammates rather than entering solo, we have recently opened that CrowdForge thing, maybe posting there could help.

@Sniperninja564 A popular upcoming jam is the PROCJAM, I never joined but the topic is interesting. The a game by is cover thing is also a great concept, though it's already halfway through.

Volvary
  • 6 years ago • 

My favorite is always the Global Game Jam in January. (26-28 this year) Most cities have at least one location hosting the event and offering space for the week-end.

Other than that, Ludum Dare is one of the more popular and has a lot of participant. Once again, a lot of cities have physical events for the LDs.

Volvary
  • 6 years ago • 

Oh yeah, I forgot. If my Internet is in by the jam (which I hope), I will most likely be streaming as I go.

antaresvaldemar
 • 6 years ago • 

Hi Volvary, I'm thinking of collaboration for this jam too, I'm more into the creative elements and not so strong in coding so if you're interested in working together let me know!

Sniperninja564
 • 6 years ago • 

@Wan The PROCJAM really makes me want to start learning about procedual generation again! Might start learning about it after this one.

Volvary
  • 6 years ago • 

I'm just sad that all the "Generation" things are all in November. I personally do the NaNoWriMo each year so I can't do the NaNoGenMo (National Novel Generation Month) and now the PROCJAM. :(

As far as working with you Antares, I would be happy to! (I have a CrowdForge team open if you want to join it)

TestyRabbit
 • 6 years ago • 

Hey! Got space on your team for another programmer? I work in UE4, Unity, and Three.js/Babylon.js. Been a programmer for a long time now.

Volvary
  • 6 years ago • 

We are more looking for Artists currently. Sorry.

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