Making a Video Game in 48 Hours

Global Game Jam Jan. 30th - Feb. 1st 2009

Reporting live from the journalism building at UGA, in the New Media Suite, with little to no sleep and running on energy drinks! The Athens chapter of GGDA (Georgia Game Developers Association) is participating in the Global Game Jam, put on by the International Game Developers Association. Global Game Jam is a competition for with over 50 participating teams in 23 countries to make a fully functional video game in 48 hours.

The competition started at 5:00 pm yesterday afternoon with our guidelines for our game. We through around about 4 ideas and after about 2 hours, we focused on one awesome game. What's my task, you ask? The music is being composed by yours truly, along with another awesome music and sound engineer, Dan Wentworth.  We spent all night throwing around musical themes and ideas for the different levels for the game and finished 3 themes this afternoon! This is seriously some fun shit I'm doing, can't wait till we can show it off to the world.

The 48 hours ends tomorrow at 5:00 pm (just in time for the Super Bowl:) and we still have a couple more themes and sound effects to work on, so I will keep you updated until then. Until then, check us out streaming live here and click on Athens, GA. Maybe you catch a glimpse of me! Very Big Brother-esque;)