Global Game Jam at RIT | January 27-29, 2012

About

The Global Game Jam (GGJ) is world-wide event in which EVERYONE can participate to create a game rallying around a particular theme. All participants own their work (subject to sharing).

For more information, see the following links:

• Global Game Jam
• GGJ @ RIT
• Report from 2009
• Wikipedia

Registration

Based on computer resources, we can host about 50 people in the Game & Development Lab (discussed below). Participants are welcome to bring their own laptops. Team sizes? We anticipate team sizes ranging from 3-5 people.

You must register to participate:

1. Create a free account at the GGJ site using a valid email address:
   http://globalgamejam.org/user/register.
2. Login to the GGJ User site.
3. From the right column navigation menu, choose "My account".
4. You should see your account name and "View | Edit | Track" tabs in the middle of the page. Click on "Edit".
5. Fill in your information.
6. From the right column, select "Jam site".
7. From the "2012 GGJ Site", select Interactive Games and Media (Rochester, NY) and save.
8. Don't forget to log out.

Please confirm your registration and site selection!

• Visit our site
  http://www.globalgamejam.org/sites/2012/igm-department-interactive-games-media-rit.
• Click "View Jammers".
• Ensure that your name appears.

Sorry, you must be at least 18 to participate at the RIT Jam Site.

Location

Interactive Games & Media (IGM) at Rochester Institute of Technology is currently the only host for the Global Game Jam in the Rochester, NY region. IGM is part of the B. Thomas Golisano College of Computing and Information Sciences in Building 70. We'll be in our computing labs, starting in the Game Design & Development Lab (Room 2025, the "back half" of the GDD Lab, just above the atrium on the 2nd floor).

Maps:

• Getting to RIT
• RIT Campus Maps

Parking:

• Park in lot J after 5PM on Friday and throughout the weekend.
• If you arrive before 5PM on Friday, we may be able to arrange guest passes. For now, you'll need to stop at the
  Visitor Information Center to obtain a visitor/guest pass.
• Ask the attendant to be directed to visitor spots in or close to lots T or J. (We're in Building 70.)
• RIT also gives a lengthy explanation here.

Logistics

We plan on starting 5PM (EST) on Friday 1/28/2011. Note: we will go regardless of weather.

Friday 1/27/2012:

• 5:00PM: check-in
• 5:30PM: Keynote (TBA).
• 6:30PM: Welcome from IGM and administrative explanations.
• 7:00PM: Socializing, brainstorming, pitching

Saturday 1/28/2012:

• 12:02AM-11:59pM: Work!

Sunday 1/29/2012:

• 12:01AM: Work! Food breaks are in here somewhere :-)
• 1:30AM -3:00PM: Work!:-).

IGM and the Global Game Jam

Each Year, IGM hosts a local node of the Global Game Jam on-campus. This year's details are under construction. Last year, we hosted the event in the Game Design & Development Laboratory, and plan to do so again this year.