Check out live video streaming of the Project Showcase and Awards Ceremony from 3:00-5:30PM ET at http://www.ustream.tv/channel/ggj2012-su!
Jan
28
REMINDER: Register @ globalgamejam.org!
SU Game Jammers: be sure to register at the Global Game Jam main website (globalgamejam.org) so you can be linked to your project when it is uploaded Sunday @ 3pm!
Once you are registered there, join the SU Game Jam site (globalgamejam.org/sites/2012/su-game-jam).
Jan
28
< 24 Hours to Go!
Less than 24 hours remain and the two teams are cranking away…
2012 Tentative Event Schedule
| Friday Jan 27th | Where? | |
| 3:00 pm | Check in opens | Huntington Hall Corridor |
| 5:00 – 5:30 pm | GGJ Keynote & Theme -Getting into groups | Room 070B |
| 5:30 pm – 11:30 pm | Start working in groups (Snacks and drinks will be provided) | Room 070B + 070A + Hallway |
| Saturday Jan 28th | ||
| 8:30 am – 11:30 pm | Work in groups all day (Snacks, drinks, and light lunch will be provided) | Room 070A + Hallway + Rooms TBA |
| Sunday Jan 30th | ||
| 8:30 am – 3:00 pm | Work in groups (Snacks and drinks will be provided) | Room 070B + 070A + Hallway |
| 3:00 pm | Hand in deadline for your project | |
| 3:00 – 3:30 pm | Presentation set up | Room 070B |
| 3:30 – 5:00 pm | Showcase | Room 070B |
| 5:00 – 5:30 pm | Winner announcement & closing remarks | Room 070B |
Jan
26
Where to go on Friday: Directions and Parking
We hope to see you tomorrow in Huntington Hall. But where, you ask, is Huntington Hall?
Huntington Hall - University Ave Entrance
ONCE ON CAMPUS
Huntington Hall is located on the Southwest corner of Marshall St. & University Ave. The main entrance is directly across the street from the SU campus Sheraton Hotel and that’s the best entrance to use (once in the glass doors, Huntington is the building on your right). Once inside, we will have signs directing you down the first floor hall to our registration table and the labs we’ll be using for the Global Game Jam.
IF YOU’RE COMING FROM OUTSIDE OF SYRACUSE
To reach Huntington Hall from I-81, take exit 18 and head East on Adams Street. Take a right on University Ave. and Huntington Hall will be on your right just after Marshall Square Mall & Starbucks.
WHERE TO PARK
For free parking, continue east on Adams Street after exiting I-81 past University Ave. The next two intersecting roads – Walnut Ave. & Walnut Pl. – offer free parking on the blocks between Harrison Ave. & Marshall St. Please avoid parking on the block closest to the University’s Bird Library (Waverly Ave.). From 9am to 6pm on Friday and Saturday, as this block requires a paid parking stub and only allows two-hour parking at a time. Please check signs on Walnut Ave. & Walnut Pl. to determine which side of the street to park on (it changes every night).
You can find additional free parking on Harrison Ave. by taking Walnut Ave. north 3 blocks from Bird Library (on Waverly Ave.) and turning left on Harrison Ave. After you have parked, head west from the intersection of Marshall Ave. & Walnut or north from the intersection of Harrison Ave. & University Ave. to find Huntington Hall.
MAPS
A map of main campus (University Ave. is the central street running North-South–vertical on this map, with North as up)
A close-up map of Huntington Hall
Jan
24
Jan
23
Five Days Out
Are you ready?
We’re less than a week away from the big day, so get excited and get ready for the 2012 Global Game Jam, Syracuse University style THIS WEEKEND. If you want to make a game–video, mobile, board, whatever–we want you. You don’t even have to be an SU student! Register now and keep up to date with the latest details here.
Dec
09
2012 Global Game Jam at SU
48 hour event to take place worldwide, January 27-29…
We are thrilled to announce that SU will host a Global Game Jam site for the second year in a row. All the game developers and enthusiasts, save the date!!! More information coming soon…
Dec
01
Register for GGJ @ SU
The registration is now OPEN…Registration fee is $10…Please use the Paypal link on the right to pay online. If you don’t have an Paypal account (and if you wish not to open up one) send an email to us at cphanson@syr.edu or nyildiri@syr.edu to pay in person. To get on our participant list you must register before the event. At the door registration will not be available.
To complete your registration we still need some information about you! Please go to the link below to access the registration form:
Jan
31
2011 SU Game Jam Comes to an End
We finally concluded the SU Game Jam event on last Sunday. It was the craziest and the most amazing weekend I had for a long time. Our site participants (16 wonderful people) worked very hard over the weekend to complete their games. At the end we had 3 great games. These games can be downloaded and played.
Here is the list:
Crescendo is a rhythmic survival action game created by Yi Zhang (Programmer/Designer), Rob Kramer (Artist/Designer), Mike Thal (Music Composer/Designer), Ari Abramovsky (Conceptual Designer), Phil Haddix (Conceptual Designer). This game won the “Most Innovative Game” award.
Infection/Extinction is a strategy board game where the goal is to be the strongest surviving species created by David Horacek, Christina Morrissey, Hansol Kim, Jun Wang, Joe Gennaro. This game won the “Best Gameplay” award.
Renaissance 2090 is a board game in which the players need to navigate cyberspace, recover information about society and return it to your people to survive. Created by Victoria Gleason, John Hartung, Angela Ramnarine-Rieks, Silas Wallerstein, Katherine Jeremko, Kimberly Chacra, this game won the “Best Visual Design” award.
To sum up this event, here are some of the pictures and videos recorded:
There is also a Daily Orange Story that was in the news today.
Thanks you to everyone who participated and made this event happen. Hope to see you all in GGJ 2012 
Nilay