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The Nordic Game Jam is proud to present to you a Jon Hare Talk – an industry veteran with a tonne of history and experience.
Jon Hare will be sharing a career retrospective, from Sensible Software to date, focusing on managing original IP in the 1980s and 1990s and how some of those lessons could play a role with being relearned in the modern era, now that the domination of the console giants are behind us.
Jon Hare is one of Europe’s best known creative directors and game designers with over 10 international number one games to his name. Besides being most known as the creator of “Sensible World of Soccer” and “Cannon Fodder”, here’s a little bit more about him: Continue reading ‘NGJ Presents an Industry Veteran Talk by Jon Hare About IP Licensing, Management and Royalties!’
Marek Plichta
Marek Plichta will speak about the creative design process of the physical box stacking game Ordnungswissenschaft. The game was created in three days in collaboration with the fine artists Till Wittwer and Jakob Penca. They managed to blend their different interests like procedural computation, theater and game design to create a game that makes the player act like a simple machine but at the same time demands human intuition to win. Ordnungswissenschaft won the award for Best Interaction and was also nominated for Best Game Design at the IndieCade Festival. Part of the talk will also cover how to pronounce Ordnungswissenschaft properly.
You know that feeling in your stomach when your Game Jam Game finally comes together? When it gets a higher state of meaning just minutes before the final deadline when you’re high on cold coffee and lack of sleep? Yet your heart tells you that something is wrong… The Comic Sans that you’ve chosen for your game logo just doesn’t summarise the otherwise epic nature of your game.
Don’t worry, help is here. Nordic Game Jam presents The Logo Shop, the shop that makes awesome game logos for YOU! For FREE! Whether you’re looking for a logo for your ‘Barbie: Undead Nightmare’ game or the title just won’t work for you unless the letters are cut out of flaming ice, The Logo Shop is the place to go to.
The concept is simple: You come up with an awesome title for your game and The Logo Shop makes it look fantastic!
The Logo shop is a one man enterprise whose proud owner, Thomas Ryder, is a fanatic fontoholic and a vector curve wunderkind. Thomas claims to be the son of Helvetica, and is one of the few people in the world who laughs when someone tells a typography joke. He’s like a horse whisperer. But with fonts.
So get in line for a little logo love. No game is too small; no title is too weird.
NGJ12 is proud to announce an experiential talk by programmer Damien Morello, of Recoil Games!
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.
The NGJ12 is happy and proud to present Indie Game Developer Petri to speak at the jam! For those that do not know Petri, besides creating the first iteration of the awesome game “Jesus vs. Dinosaurs“, at last year’s Nordic Game Jam 2011 with Martin Jonasson, here’s a little bit more about him:
Full Name: Petri Purho
Title/Position: Programmer
Company: Kloonigames
Short biography: Petri Purho is best known as the creator of Crayon Physics Deluxe. He’s also known for his 7 day game prototypes, which everyone should check out. Information on these can be found on his homepage.
Homepage: http://www.kloonigames.com/
Petri will be presenting a lecture on “Why Being Poor and Having No Budget is Good For Making Games“. The presentation will contain a few ideas on why making games without money or budget is actually a good thing and how this can in fact spark creativity! He will be showing examples throughout the lecture and of course answer any questions.
To follow Petri and his creative works, check out his website and follow his Twitter at: @PetriPurho or HERE.
Dear Participants and Future Participants,
There are just over 50 tickets left for the Nordic Game Jam 2012! Be sure to pass on the message to your friends and family 
. Send them to the following link HERE to buy the tickets.
The t-shirt design will also be revealed soon and we guarantee you that you will LOVE IT! 
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