TOJAM 2012!

We have a pretty good group of merry Mount Royal representatives heading to Toronto this week-end (May 11-13) for the best jam of all, TOJAM!

The theme this year is:
The World is NOT ending

Everyone should share about their experience in here, or start their own thread in the Dev category, show what we're working on! And if you're not going, you can still try to make a game, or share ideas, or whatever!

How are people going to interpret the theme? Are you making more than a token effort? I thought something with endless worlds/stages would be a good angle to take on it.

AND: when does the jam actually start, I don't trust that the website is up to date.

The jam starts Friday morning, opening at 10am.

The theme can mean a lot of things. Let's dump random interpretations!

- The world ends but it leads to something else. What comes after the end of the world? Is the world starting up again? Can we remake Fallout in 48h?
- What if, as in your example, "world" refers to the video game term, like world 1-1 in Super Mario. Does that mean we can just do a remake of the infamous minus-1 world from Super Mario Bros (it's infinite!). Or do you make a game where the flag always run further ahead of Mario, making it impossible to finish worlds? XD
- If the World's not ending, what is it doing? Is it beginning? Is it starting over? Is it running backwards Philip K. Dick-style?
- What world are we talking about? It's not necessarily Earth, you know. Could be another planet, another dimension, a world of fiction? Could be a super nerdy tale of an alternate universe where Alderaan is NOT blown up by the Death Star. Or something.
- Then there's the concept of infinite loops, but those who attended Global Game Jam earlier this year are probably tired of that theme. Enough Ourobouros for a year, pals.
- Let's make a bet on how many games are gonna be about destroying meteors coming straight to Earth! Impending boring doom!

 

Here's a video of The Monster King playing his and Frankie's game: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dReBEY2-QA0

I hope Frankie and the Monster King finish that game. I want to play it.

You game seems pretty elaborated for a Game Jam! It looks awesome!

Will you, TOJamers, present your games at the next meetup?

And, is it just me, or he sounds just like Seth Rogen? :D

We'll show our game fo sho'.