[game_edu] Qol, "crunch" and Education

[Ali Arya]

Mike,

I sympathize with you on all the hardships. In our school, I've been there
every night too for the past three years (usually with 1-2 student
volunteers but not always) and we've had troubles with having people over
during the nights. We didn't have to pay but we had other issues with campus
safety. 

Still I personally like the idea of a non-stop 46-hour jam from Friday 5pm
to Sunday 3pm. In fact I think this is one of the few constraints that need
to be there if a site wants to call themselves GGJ site (there are not
really a lot of constraints as the site management is very flexible). If a
site decides that they want to close for nights, that's still allowed though
as long as they start/end like others.

Best,
Ali

PS: Working in schools, I assume we are all used to not getting a
"thank-you" by now ;-) Many game jammers did thank me though. I have a set
of clay figures on my desk that a group used for their game and left it for
me (it was last year: http://globalgamejam.org/2010/flimflam-fernandez) .
I'm sure your jammers are grateful too, even if they don't say it.


-----Original Message-----
From: game_edu-bounces at igda.org [mailto:game_edu-bounces at igda.org] On Behalf
Of Mike Reddy
Sent: Monday, February 07, 2011 12:13 AM
To: <game_edu at igda.org>
Subject: Re: [game_edu] Qol, "crunch" and Education

[hit send by mistake.]

Now this genii is out of the bottle, I can only see more sites wanting
leverage to make GGJ more family friendly. I for one just cannot do two days
of loss of sleep, lack of family time, and no scope for recovery before work
on Monday. This year the students and a couple of staff had a great time,
producing some pretty excellent games IMHO. As a learning activity, it was
brilliant as usual. However, no one here thought to say thank you. 

The parallels of Jam with crunch have been made before, but have never been
so clear to me. I would welcome discussion of an alternative. This year,
voluntary crunch ceased to be fun.
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