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Global Game Jam in Argentina

admin — Sat, 26 Dec 2009 22:35:30 +0000

The 2010 GGJ will take place January 29-31, 2010 in more than 30 countries around the world including: Argentina, Australia, Belgium, Brazil, Canada, Denmark, UK, Finland, France, Germany, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Japan, Lithuania , Mexico , The Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Philippines, Portugal, Qatar, Scotland, South Africa, South Korea, Spain, Sweden, Turkey, USA, Venezuela and Colombia.

Game Jams foster innovation and experimentation. If you have ever wanted to make a game, be a part of a team, or go outside of your usual working method, then a game jam is for you. It’s all about making games and in the GGJ you’re part of a global experiment in creativity. A game jam is not for the faint of heart though. It’s two days of hard work, experimentation, little sleep, collaboration, cramped quarters, new friends, great idea, laughs, technical issues and the time of your life.

In this edition, we are proud to announce that, at least for now, two Argentinian cities are participating in the GGJ: Buenos Aires and Santa Fé.

In both cases there is no entrance fee, but there are limited availability. In order to sign up or for further information, visit the Global Game Jam site or http://gamejambsas.wordpress.com/ (Buenos Aires, in spanish) or http://gamejam.videojuegossantafe.com.ar/ (Santa Fé, in spanish)

Alternate Reality Games

admin — Sun, 05 Jul 2009 13:41:31 +0000

Alternate Reality Games, a.k.a. ARGs, are for sure a hard thing to define.

Aristotle said with his ancient wisdom: “don’t try to define an ARG, better show a couple of examples”

Before that, I’ll like to show an image that, in my opinion, is ARGs in a nutshell (stoled from Andrea Phillips)

Alternate Reality Games

Now we can answer: what is an ARG?

The answers, in no particular order:

Zona Incerta (portuguese)

Talking @ GDC ‘09

admin — Wed, 25 Feb 2009 22:27:51 +0000

This year I’ll be going to the GDC, and I even get to talk a little about Darkstar on a lecture!

If you would like to meet me there, just send me an e-mail (andres at jengibre), leave a comment or just go to the contact section.

See you there!

Darkstris, grand prize winner

admin — Mon, 16 Feb 2009 13:11:06 +0000

Darkstris, a cooperative multiplayer tetris game was the grand prize winner in the non-student category of the Project Darkstar Developer Challenge.

Project Darkstar it’s a platform targeted for the development of massive multiplayer games, virtual worlds and social networking applications, created by Sun Microsystems.

More info on the other participating projects and winners

New year, new site, new blog

admin — Sun, 18 Jan 2009 21:37:51 +0000

2009 started with winds of change, so goodbye old site, hello new site (actually a redesign of the old one), hello new blog!

Alternate Reality Games @ EVA

admin — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 23:34:30 +0000

Here are the slides and video of the Alternate Reality Games talk at the EVA 2008 (Argentine Videogames Exposition).

22 MB of pictures, videos and ARG cats.

Slides in spanish, videos in english… there ya go