Wild Pockets to Host San Fancisco and New York City Game Jams

After the success of the first Wild Pockets Game Jam, Wild Pockets has teamed up Crispy Gamer to host a series of Game Jams. The first will be held in San Francisco on April 4th and 5th at the Microsoft Silicon Valley Campus.

Participants will be able to work together in teams to create a game over 48 hours using the Wild Pocket 3D web-based game engine. All submitted games will be judged by a panel of industry experts. More details will be announced soon on the Wild Pockets and Crispy Gamer sites.

If you are interested in early registration or learning more about these events, please contact Emily Skopic at eskopic [at] wildpockets [dot] com.

Wild Pockets and Crispy Gamer Present - The Bay Area Game Jam

Event Details

The Wild Pockets Game Jam event is an intensely creative two days where teams of game developers compete to create the best game as judged by a panel of industry experts in 24 hours or less! The game jam will also feature industry speakers, recruiters from top game companies, tips and tricks for creating and monetizing your games, super cool prizes for the winning teams, giveaways, networking and much more!!

When:
April 4 – 5th 2009, (exact time TBD – approximate times are from 10am Saturday through 4pm Sun)

Microsoft's Mountain View Campus

Where:
Microsoft Silicon Valley Campus in Mountain View, CA

Who:
Sign up as a team (2-5 people/team) or as an individual (Individuals will have an opportunity to form teams at the event).

Benefits of Attending

Networking and Recruiting:
Network with other game developers and studio recruiters that will be in attendance.

Easy Publishing:
Winning games will be published on partner sites including www.crispygamer.com and www.wildpockets.com as part of an ongoing promotional event/press tour.

Fame:
Sign up as a team (2-5 people/team) or as an individual (Individuals will have an opportunity to form teams at the event).

Awesome Prizes:
Prizes will be announced soon. Here's a hint - have you ever dreamed of flying?

Insider Tips:
We’ll have developers on hand to give you great tips and answer questions on everything from the Wild Pockets platform to getting a job in the game industry.

Have Fun:
There will be plenty of food, games, giveaways and other surprises during the event.

Tentative Schedule of Events

Saturday

Sunday

What is Wild Pockets

Wild Pockets – 3D games in your web-browser

During the Game Jam, all games will be built using the brand new Wild Pockets Platform. Wild Pockets is:

• A free 3D web-browser based game engine – including features such as integrated physics, lighting and shaders, exporters from standard 3D modeling packages, Scripting in Lua, and more
• An integrated community for sharing game assets to speed up your development process
• >A method to easily distribute the games you create anywhere online (Your own game URL and embed tags for YouTube style distribution)
• A new way to monetize your games via the web – details to be announced at the Game Jam (hint – think Xbox Live style transaction/payment system)
• See the Wild Pockets website for sample games and to sign up for an account - www.wildpockets.com

Please Note – you will have access to Wild Pockets prior to the Game Jam in order to become familiar with the platform, read through documentation, see sample programs, and even begin creating games. While we will allow design and art ahead of time, we will not allow people to bring pre-written code for their games into the event – all Game Jam submissions must be programmed during the two day event.

Rules and FAQ to be posted soon.

2008 Game Jam Winners

The 1st place winner from the Wild Pockets Game Jam. Created in 24 hours by Nicholas McClay, Matthew DeLucas, Victor George and Dan Dwire		The 2nd place winner from the Wild Pockets Game Jam. Created in 24 hours by Enrique Ma. R. Sarmiento, Sarah McGee, Kyle Dolan, Chun-ta Chen.		The 3rd place winner from the Wild Pockets Game Jam. Created in 24 hours by Theresa Chen, Aaron Vanderbeek, Monil Gandhi, Francisco Souki, and Carlos Hurtado.