Global
Game Jam:
48 hours of Persistence,
Programming and Pizza at Scottish Game Jam
by Jon Brady
Foreword by Susan Gold, Founder of Global Game Jam
About Global Game Jam 2011
When? January 28th - 30th 2011 Where? Errr... everywhere... it was Global (over 40 countries) Who? Over 6,500 participants Say what? More than 1,500 games created
And the book? (Nutshell style)
In one corner
of this GGJ endeavour
(well, Glasgow, to be precise)
Jon Brady
tried to document the
mayhem of Scottish Game Jam.
Global Game Jam: 48 hours of Persistence,
Programming and Pizza at Scottish Game Jam
by Jon Brady
Print and Kindle
Published: November 1st 2011
Hardcopy:
$13.99, £9.99
ISBN: 978-0-9570511-0-2
187 pages
Available in Hardcopy or Kindle
Global Game Jam 2011
January 28th 2011. Over 100 game developers, artists and designers gather at Glasgow Caledonian University.
- Ahead of them, the Scottish leg of the Global Game Jam - 48 hours of exhausting, sleep-deprived but invigorating and adrenalin-fuelled hardcore game development. The theme? Extinction.
Enter Jon Brady, game journalist and Game Jam reporter
veteran. Follow his exploits as he tries to document the Jam over the entire
48 hours - a job made progressively harder as insomnia, caffeine, alcohol,
equipment failure and errands all take their toll and he begins to
contemplate a personal extinction of his own.
Global Game Jam offers a fly-on-the-wall perspective into what it takes to
compete, survive and excel at a Game Jam competition.
Global Game Jam Book
- Follow five unique teams, and understand what went right (and wrong)
- Gain insight from the Pros: interviews with Game Jam competitors and
organisers, and international game developers
- Learn the unofficial Jam Laws - when YOU come to Game Jam, you'll know the
ropes
- Filled with photos of Game Jam, tables and, er, doodles
- Understand the value of pizza in all this
About Jon Brady
- Jon Brady is a writer specialising in games and games development. In his tenure as a gaming scribe he has found himself in London, Germany and Edinburgh for various events that have seen him work with Electronic Arts and Sarcastic Gamer, for whom he has written for over three years.
He also co-hosts the weekly Sarcastic Gamer UK podcast, the 13th most downloaded podcast in the UK during its first week of release, sitting alongside celebrities such as Karl Pilkington and Dara O’Briain; to this day, the podcast regularly charts in the Top 10 Video Games Podcast chart on iTunes. Outside of gaming, he enjoys writing about cinema and contributing regularly to his personal blog.
Read a bit of the book's intro here