{"id":2339,"date":"2017-04-20T18:51:18","date_gmt":"2017-04-20T16:51:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/?p=2339"},"modified":"2017-04-20T18:51:18","modified_gmt":"2017-04-20T16:51:18","slug":"nordic-game-jam-the-original-2006-plan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/2017\/04\/20\/nordic-game-jam-the-original-2006-plan\/","title":{"rendered":"Nordic Game Jam – the original 2006 plan"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Today is the start of the 12th installment of the\u00a0Nordic Game Jam.<\/a><\/p>\n

Going through my old files, here is the draft document<\/a> describing the first “Nordic Game Jam” (yes, quotes) in 2006, which was organized by Henriette Moos, Gorm Lai and\u00a0me.<\/p>\n

By now, the language is positively quaint, patiently explaining that it’s about “making a game in a weekend”, and framing it as a workshop.<\/p>\n

Nordic Game Jam is a weekend workshop in January 27-29th<\/sup> 2006 at the IT University in Copenhagen, Denmark. The workshop is about “making a game in a weekend”, dealing with game design and technical issues, and meeting other people working with game design and development.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

This was not the first game jam to be held, but it was possibly the first\u00a0to be centered around teams, rather than around individual programmers<\/a>. This was a departure from the single-programmer and engine-oriented style of the Indie Game Jam, which I’d<\/a> been to in 2005<\/a>.<\/p>\n

During the next few years, the Nordic Game Jam helped the broad acceptance of the game jam format, and it’s in part responsible for the incredible glut of indie and experimental games that we see today.<\/p>\n

Compare today’s environment with the fact that\u00a0my mere participation in the 2005 Indie Game Jam was enough to make my game shown at the Experimental Gameplay workshop at GDC. Doesn’t work like that anymore.<\/p>\n

I\u00a0remain extremely happy to have participated in making the Nordic Game Jam happen.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Today is the start of the 12th installment of the\u00a0Nordic Game Jam. Going through my old files, here is the draft document describing the first “Nordic Game Jam” (yes, quotes) in 2006, which was organized by Henriette Moos, Gorm Lai and\u00a0me. By now, the language is positively quaint, patiently explaining that it’s about “making a … Continue reading “Nordic Game Jam – the original 2006 plan”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2339","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-games"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2339","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2339"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2339\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2339"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2339"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2339"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}