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Come to Unite Nordic with Nordic Game Jam, Exile and Unicorn7

Published on May 2, 2013 in Announcement. 0 Comments

Unite Nordic

EDIT: We are really happy with the amount of participation we are getting! Since we would love for everyone to be able to come, we are extending the offer by making more tickets available! You can still apply for the tickets until SATURDAY, MAY 11TH, so hurry up if you still haven’t applied through this form HERE.

Unite conferences have always been the biggest, most important Unity developer events worldwide, and the May 21-22nd Unite Nordic conference is shaping up to be packed full of talks and inspirational breaks from the likes of Rovio, Mojang, Nintendo and more, all with a focus on making great interesting games using the Unity game engine.

The programme will kick off with a keynote from Unity CEO and co-founder David Helgason and will continue with talks focused on taking your game development and business skills to the next level on subjects like sound design, publishing in the Chinese market, starting up your own company and more.

If you have been to any of the events that IGDA Denmark organizes such as our very own Nordic Game Jam and Exile, you will have probably noticed that Unity is a big supporter of game jams.

True to form, we’ve teamed up with Unicorn7.org to give away 15 free tickets to Unite Nordic to lucky Nordic Game Jam and Exile participants.

How do you apply for this scholarship? Easy: you just have to fill in your details in this form and we will choose the 15 people who will be attending Unite Nordic free of charge!

Still not convinced? You can check more information about the event at Unite Nordic’s website, such as the full program schedule, venue and more.

And as a bonus, just by attending you will enter a draw for a giveaway of 10 Unity Pro licenses and 2 Unity Pro bundles which include iOS Pro, Android Pro, and the upcoming Windows Store Pro add-on.

So what are you waiting for? Apply now for a chance to go to Unite Nordic now!

Present your game at w00t Copenhagen Play Festival

Published on April 22, 2013 in Announcement. 0 Comments

Just because winter is (finally!) over here in Copenhagen that doesn’t mean there’s nothing happening for Nordic Game Jam jammers!

We are really proud to announce that thanks to IGDA Denmark we will have a reserved space for some of the Nordic Game Jam teams to present their games at the newly formed w00t Copenhagen Play Festival!

If you haven’t heard about it yet, here’s the brief:

w00t is a festival taking place between the 25th and the 26th of May 2013 full of street games, kids games, game talks and much, much more, organized by the Copenhagen Game Collective and Vallekilde Højskole to give Copenhagen a space for fun and games.

Now we want 5 teams that have participated at Nordic Game Jam to present. That means you will have 10 minutes to show the world your awesome game!

Do you want to be in? Then email submit@igda.dk with the name of your team and the game that you would like to present and we will get back to you!

Publish your game and win 10K

Published on February 6, 2013 in Announcement and Competition. 0 Comments

48 hours doesn’t sound like much time for a polished, market-ready game. Small jam games can still demo a great new game mechanic or show a world you want to explore – if only there was more time.

If you think you’ve struck gold – take our challenge: Bring your jam game to the market and have a chance of winning 10,000 DKK. The Nordic Game Jam organization encourages you to polish your game, create more content, more levels, fix the last bugs, re-factor the code, repaint the binary, scramble the faces or whatever you think is necessary to enable selling your game for money.

This is not only a fun competition to win money, but an encouragement to go through a learning experience of “that other part of game development, which is not code or game design” – namely business.

Here’s the deal: Your game must be made purchasable! Any app store, portal, your own website or wherever you prefer to release it. The point is that you’ve taken your game to the market – it has to have a price, and must have sold 1 copy (you have to be able to document it -and no, selling one copy to your mom doesn’t count). UPDATE: licensing deals count as well.

From all the submissions, one winner will be selected. The winner will be announced during the Nordic Game Indie Night in Malmø (free event the night before Nordic Game Conference starts).
Write your submission with a link to the original jam game on Unicorn7.org and send the documentation of sales to info@nordicgamejam.org before April 30th.

Good luck!

Btw, we are looking for partners to match the 10K (DKK).

- The Nordic Game Jam Crew

Winners NGJ13!

Published on January 21, 2013 in Announcement and Competition. 0 Comments

Although we’re all still suffering from jamover, we’ve managed to write this blog post (about time, some would say). Here’s is the voting order of the finalists in this year Nordic Game Jam. The 11 finalist were split in 8 digital games and 3 board games. The board games that made it to the finals were Made in China (Most Fun Board Game), Beast Builder (Most Sellable Board Game) & Burlesque Grotesque (Most Polished Board Game). The theme for NGJ13 was ‘Grotesque’.

Congratulations to all winners and a million thanks to all participants, volunteers, partners, sponsors, organizers and everyone else, who made NGJ13 a huge success! We do this for you!

-The NGJ13 Crew

Audience Award (Main Competition)

1. Spaceship with a Mace

2. Press [X] To Give Up

3. Stikbold

4. Stalagflight

5. Twisted

6. Dragon Pussy

7. 3:15 AM

8. Shrouded Light

9. Made in China

10. Beast Builder

11. Burlesque Grotesque

Most Fun Game

1. Stikbold

2. Stalagflight

3. Spaceship with a Mace

4. Dragon Pussy

5. Press [X] To Give Up

6. Made in China

7. 3:15 AM

8. Beast Builder

9. Twisted

10. Shrouded Light

11. Burlesque Grotesque

Most Innovative Game

1. Twisted

2. Press [X] To Give Up

3. 3:15 AM

4. Spaceship with a Mace

5. Stikbold

6. Stalagflight

7. Shrouded Light

8. Made in China

9. Dragon Pussy

10. Burlesque Grotesque

11. Beast Builder

Most Polished Game

1. Spaceship with a Mace

2. Dragon Pussy

3. Shrouded Light

4. Press [X] To Give Up

5. Stalagflight

6. 3:15 AM

7. Stikbold

8. Twisted

9. Beast Builder

10. Burlesque Grotesque

11. Made in China

Keynote Favorites

Stalagflight & OUOAAAAH (Justin Bieber)

MovieStarPlanet Winner

Stalagflight

Casual Connect Europe winners will be announced soon

Check out all the game here!

Board games – Nordic Game Jam 2013 Videoblog #4

Published on January 19, 2013 in Videoblog. 0 Comments

We know for a fact that many of you haven’t even seen how cool the board games track is. So we’re making it easier for you to check it out with this new episode of the videoblog!

http://youtu.be/pM3AkvoQsYk

Early prototypes – Nordic Game Jam 2013 Videoblog #3

Published on January 19, 2013 in Videoblog. 0 Comments

Things are going on quite well at Nordic Game Jam 2013 so far.

It’s the second day, so there’s still not a lot of stress going on (wait until this evening…) but people are already coming up with a few nice prototypes.

Check some of them out in the third videoblog post!

Nordic Game Jam Videoblog #2

Published on January 18, 2013 in Videoblog. 0 Comments

The game jam is ON!

After a set of great talks, an inspiring keynote from both Vlambeer and Dennaton, and the release of this year’s theme for the games (Grotesque), the participants have already been forming groups.

Check out how the group forming process went in this second videoblog post!

Nordic Game Jam videoblog #1

Published on January 18, 2013 in Videoblog. 0 Comments

We will be liveblogging the entire game jam this year!

Do you have anything cool you want to show to the world? Tell your friends and family how great being here is? Then catch either Anchel Labena or Samuel Walz around the venue and we might feature you in one of the videos!

Here’s the first post!

Cool hardware for your games

Published on January 18, 2013 in Announcement. 0 Comments

Nordic Game Jam has always been known for getting quite a few games that use gadgets in cool new ways. But sometimes this hardware can get difficult to get a hold of.

But here come Playground Publishing and Epson to the rescue!

During the game jam all participants will have access to several Epson Moverio BT-100 units. These futuristic-looking 3D glasses allow the wearer to see video when the screen is turned on, and see through the lenses when the screen is off. We’re sure several of you could come up with great playful ideas with these glasses. And they work great with Unity!

But here’s one more thing: make a cool game with them, and Playground Publishing/Epson may finance further development of your game to take it out to the market!

Want to give it a go? Any creative ideas in mind already? Then head to the info desk during the game jam and get one of these units!

More info about the Moverio BT-100 here!

Come watch the 48 Hour Games documentary with us

Published on January 15, 2013 in Announcement and Video. 0 Comments

Here’s a proposal: take a virtual tour of Nordic Game Jam BEFORE Nordic Game Jam 2013 starts!

If you’ve been following the news you will have probably heard of the 48 Hour Games interactive documentary by Suvi Andrea Helminen, where the viewer becomes a player going through the different paths from the moment the Nordic Game Jam starts to its end.

Now we invite you to watch it… with all of the participants for this year’s game jam!

Right at the beginning of the pre-party hosted by the Copenhagen Game Collective this Thursday 17th we will be screening the documentary and let the crowd decide who to follow, what to see and what to learn more about. If you haven’t seen the documentary yet, this is your best chance, with many of the people in the documentary being present right there. And if you’ve seen it already, perhaps you will discover a new path that you hadn’t seen before?

The screening will take place at the same location as the pre-party, at 18:00 (we will open the doors at 17:45), at Aalborg University Copenhagen in Sydhavn.

Join us through this preview of what’s to come during the weekend at Nordic Game Jam 2013!

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