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Three years of jamming Lessons learned at the Berlin Mini Game Jam Christiaan Janssen

Three years of game jamming by Christiaan Janssen

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The Berlin Mini Game Jam is a monthly game creation workshop with a focus on creativity and collaboration. After three years of experience, the organizers reflect about the lessons learned not only about the art of making videogames, but also about working in a team with strangers you just met, the fun of being creative, and more efficient ways of getting projects finished. Lessons that can also be applied to other fields, even non-technology-related.

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Three years of jammingLessons learned at the Berlin Mini Game Jam

Christiaan Janssen

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Three years of jamming Christiaan Janssen

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Three years of jamming Christiaan Janssen

“Untitled” by flickr user miheco, CC-BY-SA

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Three years of jamming Christiaan Janssen

Just for fun http://chrisjangames.wordpress.com

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Three years of jamming Christiaan Janssen

GunFu Deadlands

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Three years of jamming Christiaan Janssen

Blind tower defense

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Three years of jamming Christiaan Janssen

Throw it away

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Three years of jamming Christiaan Janssen

Warren's weird dream

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Three years of jamming Christiaan Janssen

Interactive shadows

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Three years of jamming Christiaan Janssen

Hubwar

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Three years of jamming Christiaan Janssen

Dodo VS Darwin

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Three years of jamming Christiaan Janssen

Jolly Joy

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Three years of jamming Christiaan Janssen

Dune Bite

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Three years of jamming Christiaan Janssen

Shard

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Three years of jamming Christiaan Janssen

Dupes

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Three years of jamming Christiaan Janssen

Eat the croissant

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Three years of jamming Christiaan Janssen

Panic! (Astrid Bin)

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Three years of jamming Christiaan Janssen

Themes

Low-definition realism

Dark ScienceTentacles

Fish

Overpowered

Out of control

Magnets Freefall

Mass Production

Surveillance

Pony

EVERYTHING'S ON FIRE

Psychedelic Visualisations

Reunion

Tame the rainbow

Stealing things

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Three years of jamming Christiaan Janssen

“Lightbulb” by flickr user Emilio_13, CC-BY-SA

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Three years of jamming Christiaan Janssen

from Wikipedia, GNU FDL

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Three years of jamming Christiaan Janssen

Quest Complete! (Matthias Zarzecki)

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Three years of jamming Christiaan Janssen

The Great Hunt (Tobias Wehrum)

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Three years of jamming Christiaan Janssen

Conclusion:Lessons

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Three years of jamming Christiaan Janssen

Übung macht der Meister

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Three years of jamming Christiaan Janssen

Publish everything

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Three years of jamming Christiaan Janssen

Do it in half the time

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Three years of jamming Christiaan Janssen

Focus on what you want to inventReuse everything else

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Three years of jamming Christiaan Janssen

Let the graphic designer do her/his thing

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Three years of jamming Christiaan Janssen

First step: assign clear roles

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Three years of jamming Christiaan Janssen

Work for the presentation (only)

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Three years of jamming Christiaan Janssen

There will be no time to expand later

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Three years of jamming Christiaan Janssen

Community > Organizers

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Three years of jamming Christiaan Janssen

This is not commercial work

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Three years of jamming Christiaan Janssen