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Bit of a Game Jam, Hell of a Month!

George Buckenham (@v21 and developer of Mr Bubble Amidst the Fireworks) is organising a game jam to immediately follow Bit of Alright. Bit of a Game Jam will take place at LSBU on Saturday the 4th and Sunday the 5th of February.

It’s going to be the finish of an amazing few weeks of London indie games events. Also going on:

Monday 16th January: London Indies. Meet other indie developers at The Crown for a beer, and often something like Ninja, clapping games or Johann Sebastian Joust too.

Friday 27th January: The 2012 Global Game Jam. From January 27th — 29th, people all over the world will be developing games together. Find and join a local site here, there’s one in London.

Thursday 2nd February: The Wild Rumpus returns on February the 2nd, with a corking line up including Hokra and Forget Me Not.

Bit of Alright is of course on Friday the 3rd, then Bit of a Game Jam at LSBU afterward. Immediately after that, there’s another London Indies on Monday the 6th of Feb.

As Aubrey Hesselgren said yesterday: “Wild Rumpus + Bit of Alright + Bit of a Game Jam = not going to survive, but will die happy.”

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Adrian Hon, Matt Wieteska, Alex Macmillan: SixtoStart

Zombies, Run!

Adrian is managing director of SixtoStart, and with his colleagues Matt and Alex, will be talking about Zombies, Run!, a narrative game that uses GPS, real maps, and takes place while you run at any speed. I think that’s an interesting design challenge: How do you cater to players of varying fitness, and how does the game adapt to multiple or random routes? I never pick a set route when I go running and take whatever turns I fancy, could it adapt to that? Would it try send me over a broken bridge?

Unless you have the spirit of a flaneur, running can get boring if the endorphins aren’t flowing, and this is designed to make it more fun. As well as that, this session will cover fundraising using Kickstarter, which may seem like the latest holy moneyprinter, but it’s easy to get wrong if you take incorrect ideas to it.

This is the first of our daily blog posts about speakers. More on Monday!

More Speakers

Today, I’m delighted to announce some more speakers! There will be blog posts about the speakers and sessions they’re running every day until the event now. Also, you see how they’re arranged below in a list? The sessions aren’t going to involve very much of that.

  • Holly Gramazio — Hide & Seek
  • Dan Marshall — Size Five Games
  • Richard Perrin — Locked Door Puzzle
  • Andrew Roper — IndieSkies
  • Adam Russell and John Sear — WallFour
  • Rob Davis — Playniac
  • Adrian Hon — SixtoStart

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