Main text and photo by Anton Tarasov, LEDAS jam initiator.
Besides 20 industrial software development projects, LEDAS team organises and supports some informal activities including
Besides 20 industrial software development projects, LEDAS team organises and supports some informal activities including
- a club of movie lovers (movies only in English),
- a club of books lovers,
- regular table tennis championship of LEDAS,
- successful participation in annual volleyball championships of Novosibirsk academic campus,
- classes twice a week to improve our conversational English,
- support for the All-Siberian contest on programming,
- and some others.
Recently, a new activity arose, a 36-hour game jam (start at 9 a.m. Saturday, finish at 9 p.m. Sunday, some strict rules assumed), aimed to develop video games and probably to master/improve new techniques - of course, along with obvious entertainment. Below you can see a translation of a report on the first game jam posted by LEDAS in a popular Russian social network VK .
Day 1
Randomly selected topic: "Small character, big enemies". The initial plan was to think over the ideas separately however this smoothly resulted in a team brainstorming.
We generated 16 game ideas:
Participants: 2 teams each of 2 persons + 5 individuals:
During the day, we met couple times in the LEDAS café to have a snack and discuss the jam progress:
Day 1 was rather fruitful; almost everyone already had playable prototypes. One of us, having spent 13 working hours, has completed his jam by the end of Day 1:
Day 2
By the lunch of Day 2, almost everyone began to enrich contents and balance their prototypes:
In the evening, after the jam, some of us met to review the developed games:
And to make the photo:
Final screenshots:
