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We have decided to change the format for the Crafty Creatures competition that was recently announced on the NGJ blog.
We realize that you’ll be very busy during the NGJ weekend producing your own game concepts, so we have decided to postpone the deadline for contest submissions – giving you time to create cool stuff for Crafty Creatures after the Game Jam.
Here are the rules for the contest:
Continue reading ‘Update on Nordisk Film “Crafty Creatures” competition’
We decided to extend the deadline for the Nordic Food Challenge, and now the deadline is the same as the NGJ12 hand-in deadline, Sunday at 14:00.
The challenge stays the same: Make the best game about Nordic Food and win 10 000 kr for a trip to GDC in San Francisco!
Continue reading ‘Nordic Food Challenge Deadline postponed to Sunday at 14:00!’
During the Nordic Game Jam, Nordisk Film Games Publishing will showcase their upcoming title developed by Progressive Media, Crafty Creatures – A physics based puzzle game, fueled by creation and sharing of user generated content.
Here comes the best part: The NGJ participants get to put their fingerprints on the game and win cool prizes! So be sure to take part in the talk by Nordisk Film to get fully introduced to the game. Then take part in the competition during the Nordic Game Jam, by designing some cool levels for the game with your team. The best levels will be chosen by a jury and the winners will be announced at the award ceremony on Sunday.
The cool prizes are the following:
1st prize: 1 PS3 console + 10 PS3 games
2nd prize: 10 PS3 games
3rd prize: 5 PS3 games
There will be an introduction talk about the game and the competition at 16:50 in Aud 1, Friday 27th .
Sound awesome? For any questions, feel free to write to us using our contact form HERE.
We decided to extend the deadline for the Nordic Food Challenge, and now the deadline is the same as the NGJ12 hand-in deadline, Sunday at 14:00.
The challenge stays the same: make the best game about Nordic Food and win 10 000 kr for a trip to GDC in San Francisco!
Nordic Game will be cooperating with its sister program of the Nordic Council of Ministers, in creating a special event during this year’s GDC in San Francisco. The event is planned to contain a special Nordic dinner as well as the infamous Nordic Party with New Nordic Food.
As part of this, a competition is being launched for the Nordic Game Jam 2012 participants. The goal is to create a game about Nordic Food within the next three weeks before the NGJ12 starts.
The competing creations will then be reviewed by Jacob Riis of Nordic Game and Charlotta Ranert of New Nordic Food, and a winner will be selected and announced at the NGJ12 Award Ceremony on Sunday, 29th of January.
The winner will receive 10 000 kr. to use for a flight ticket to SF and a admission pass for GDC. If the game is of appropriate quality, it will be displayed during the event in San Francisco.
The deadline for submissions is 14:00 on Sunday, 29th of January.
Email all submission to competition@igda.dk. The submission email should contain the following information:
- about the creators of the game,
- description, instructions and link to the game,
- optional, but recommended is in-game video (especially if the game runs on other platforms but PC and requires game accessories).
Best of luck to you all! 
Bad news people! Nordic Game Jam is not even ON THE LIST of the largest Jam Sites:
Why? Well, we’ve already sold a lot of tickets, but almost nobody registered on the Global Game Jam site.
Luckily it’s not too late to register quite yet. Follow the steps below to rectify the situation! Continue reading ‘Register to prove NGJ is the awesomest jam!’
Unity Technologies is a proud Event Sponsor of Nordic Game Jam 2011, and apart from sponsoring the event Unity will give out Unity Pro licenses to the members of the “People’s Prize” winning team!
Unity is also providing a temporary free Unity Pro with Asset Server license for all Global Game Jam participants to use, to make sure that anyone can collaborate efficiently on games with Unity during the weekend of the Game Jam! You and your team can read more and find the serial number to use here.
Worth knowing for anyone participating in a Game Jam is that Unity is uniquely suited for rapid prototyping and fast experimentation and tweaking of ideas for a game. Lots of teams in last year’s Global Game Jam made games with Unity – some of them can be seen here.
If you should have any problems or troubles getting set up with Unity during the Jam, help is never far away: It seems that half of the Danish Games industry is using Unity these days so chances are that somebody near you are familiar with it. Besides that, two of the organizers of the Nordic Game Jam 2011 happen to work for Unity in their day job (ask for Emil or Rune), and many Unity employees are participating in the event as well. If you have never touched Unity before but would be curious to try it out for the Jam, now is your chance to get a head start and get used to how everything works. Why not start off by downloading Unity for free and then checking out these basic video tutorials to get up to speed.
Happy Jamming and good luck to all!
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