Category Archives: Social Happenings

Feb
06
2009

38 Studios Game Contest

If you are an enrolled college student, 38 Studios (that’s a studio name, not 38 different studios) want you to make a game for them starring their own character, Munch, and his.. uh.. evil twin… evil Munch for their 2nd annual Massachusetts Game Challenge. Why would you want to do that? How about $500 [...]

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Feb
03
2009

Game Noir

The jolly bunch of lowbit weirdoes The Poppenkast, normally the proprietors of short (and I mean short… 3 hours short) game development competitions, are running their first big compo, the theme of which is “Game Noir” (quoth: “game noir = film noir but then a game”). The competition is already a couple of weeks in [...]

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Jan
13
2009

Global game jam

Well this one came out of nowhere. The first annual global game jam is apparently coming up. I had no idea such a thing was about to happen, but now that I know, I feel warmer inside.
This isn’t like a virtual game jam, either. Oh no. This is like a get drunk with and hug/fondle [...]

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