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Game Jam has ended, and now voting has started
The 2011 Summer Game Jam has officially ended and now the games will be available for download. If you already have a forum account, you can participate in deciding the winner of this game jam. This competition will be decided by popular vote instead of the normal judges. Go to the page below to download the games and to vote for the winner.
Summer Game Jam Has Started!
As of tonight, the 2011 Summer Game Jam has officially started! All participates who have signed up previously should have received an email about the theme of the competition as well as an email from their team leader. Good luck to everyone who is participating, and may the best team win.
Summer Game Jam
We are still going to try and have a Summer Game Jam, but we need to make sure that we have enough participates to make it work. This would be a great time to try and make a game since most people don’t have any major commitments in the summer, so they can devote more time to creating a great game in one week. The competition would be held in the second week of August, and people can either work local or from an online basis. For anyone who is still interested in participating, please fill out the form below:
https://spreadsheets.google.com/spreadsheet/viewform?formkey=dHdRNjFCX1BGX1VNWG5MY2lpcndfU2c6MQ
If enough people can make the event, we will send out emails to everyone participating. If we don’t get enough people, then we will inform everyone that they competition won’t happen this summer.
Game Jam Winners
Here is the formal announcement of the Game Jam winners:
1st Place: Gnome Man’s Land
2nd Place: Camera Obscura
3rd Place: The Way of Shadows
4th Place: Fairy Frenzy
Check this thread for detailed results: http://www.clubs.uci.edu/vgdc/bbs/viewtopic.php?f=57&t=1110.
The winners of the Game Jam will have a poster of their game, with all their names included, on the wall of the Game Lab for posterity.
This week we also held the Game Jam Popular Choice Awards, where students attending ICS Day voted on their favorite games out of the following participants: Gnome Man’s Land, The Way of Shadows, Camera Obscura, Get Krakken, and Float.
The winner was: Camera Obscura
Runner up: Gnome Man’s Land
The winning team will receive 100 USD with which to purchase a one year membership in the XNA Creator’s Club, in order to publish their game on Xbox Live Indie Arcade. The runner up received a World of Warcraft battlechest with Wrath of the Lich King and Cataclysm expansions, to distribute to their most productive members.
Congratulations to the winning teams, and good work everyone with this year’s Game Jam’s, they have been a huge success, and we are very proud of all of you 
Meeting 5-9: Game Jam Results (for real this time)
We will be announcing the winners of the Spring Game Jam at tonight’s meeting. This time it will happen for sure, there will be no further delays.
Follow the judges feedback here: http://www.clubs.uci.edu/vgdc/bbs/viewtopic.php?f=57&t=1110
4-4: Spring Game Jam!
You know you’ve all been waiting for it! The Spring Game Jam will begin on Monday, 4-4 at 6:30 in CalIT2, in the first floor auditorium. Make a game from start to finish in one week. Be sure to sign up before 6:30 on Monday, and let someone at the club know if you can’t make it to the kick off meeting.
General Game Jam info is here: https://sites.google.com/site/ucirvinevgdc/game-jam
Sign ups are here: https://sites.google.com/site/ucirvinevgdc/game-jam/sign-ups
Meeting 2-7: Announcing Game Jam Winners
The cutoff for judging submitting scores for the Game Jam teams is tonight at 6:30, which means we will be announcing the winner at tonight’s meeting.
One-Week Game Jam: Monday 1/10
The VGDC’s winter One Week Game Jam will begin this Monday, January 10th, at the normal meeting time and place: CalIt2 Rm 3008, at 6:30pm.
The Game Jam will last one week, during which time 3-4 teams will conceptualize, design, and build a small game based on a theme we will assign at the meeting. Teams will also be assigned at the meeting on Monday.
We encourage everyone, club member or not, interested in software or computer/video game development to take part in this competition. If you have doubts do to inexperience with projects of this sort, we especially encourage you to participate, as this is a priceless learning experience as well as a great resume/portfolio builder.
Anyone interested in participating the Game Jam please RSVP with your name and what kind of work you’d like to do (designer, programmer, art, music) in this forum thread:
http://www.clubs.uci.edu/vgdc/bbs/viewtopic.php?f=50&t=646
or by email to Jay Igarashi at: quinquaginta_tempestas@hotmail.com
Teams will be assigned around 7:30 on Monday, so anyone can join the Game Jam anytime before or shortly after then, however we’d prefer you RSVP because that will make the team creation process much easier for us.
Looking forward to seeing many of you Monday,
– Reza
The VGDC’s winter One Week Game Jam will begin this Monday, January 10th, at the normal meeting time and place: CalIt2 Rm 3008, at 6:30pm.
April 5th Meeting: The VGDC Game Week Competition and Intro to Maya presentation.
Starting this Monday, the VGDC will initiate the week Game Week Competition. Two teams will be chosen to compete against one another to create the best game in 7 days. All interested programmers, artists and designers should show up if they expect to participate.
Also, our good friend Jeremy from the Arts Institute will give us a primer in modeling with AutoDesk Maya. Download and install the free trial off of the Autodesk to follow along. We’ll see you there!
