[game_edu] 1600 participants over 300 games

[S. Gold]

Wow what a weekend, I can¹t believe that it is over. I had never been a part
of a game jam before deciding to hold the world¹s largest (53 locations, 23
countries), so the experience was a learning one as well as a successful
one. We are still uploading games (we have a lot of games that were ftp¹d
up). I wanted to thank everyone who participated, volunteered, mentored,
visited and had some connection to this years 1st Annual Global Game Jam.
One thing you don¹t want to miss is the global keynote ­
http://tinyurl.com/GGJKeynote ­ Kyle Gabler did an incredible job. I did not
do this whole thing alone, you should know that our own IGDA EdSIG Student
Outreach chair, Ian Schreiber did an outstanding job running the Jam. Gorm
Lai, one of the founders of the Nordic Game Jam mentored us and took on a
lot of responsibility in making sure we did things right. Without them, we
would have never been able to do this. I am thankful to many more, but this
quick note will end up a novel if I write it all out.

I wanted to point everyone to the website http://globalgamejam.org and
suggest you go play some games. They are up there for you and everyone to
enjoy. As educators you can look at all of these games as lessons to share
with your students, opportunities to explore new programming languages,
software, ideas and art. Please use the GGJ website as one of your new
resources to study game mechanics, design and play. You can even have your
students look at the games and critique them, ask them how would they do it
better, then challenge them to join us next year. I am amazed at how many of
the games are really playable and good, you try to make a game in 48 hours.
 
I really need to sleep for a week, but as soon as I really digest what
happened, play a few hundred games, I promise to share it with you.



Susan

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Prof. Susan Gold
Chair, IGDA Education SIG

"It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression
and knowledge." - Albert Einstein


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