Check out the new site!

Go to www.48hrgamecomp.com to check out our live webcam feeds, Twitter tweets and more!

and we are back! back! back! – october 2008 challenge

announcing!

48 hour challenge: new site: http://www.48hrgamecomp.com/

we are moving the live 48 hour site to our own server so we can stream directly and do other interesting things – please follow the link and update your bookmarks accordingly

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Announcing the return of the fabulous 48 hour game making challenge!

48 hour game making challenge details + sign up information
– team entries now closed

Preliminary meet-up: October 1 2008 – Tips for Game Designers

Time: Oct 1 2008, 5.00 – 6.00 pm
Venue: the Glasshouse, CIP Kelvin Grove

Pandemic Studios Lead Designer Morgan Jaffit discusses games design as a potential career path as well as giving you all the essential hints and tips for the 48 Hr Game-Making Tournament on Friday 3 October

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Challenge Dates: October 3 – 5 2008

Bump-in / Set-up: Friday Oct 3 – from 2.00pm

Challenge starts: Friday Oct 3 @ 4.00pm with three keywords given by Souri of Sumea or these days it is tsumea

Judges arrive: Sunday Oct 5 from 2.00pm

Challenge ends: Sunday Oct 5 @ 4.00pm

Sausage sizzle: Sunday Oct 5 from 4.00pm – 5.30pm

Come and join the teams for an END GAME BBQ, BYO sausages and drinks
Venue: CI Precincts, KG – outside the block

Winner announced: Sunday Oct 5 @ 5.45 pm

Web site live cam:http://www.48hrgamecomp.com/

See the teams, the live blog and the “what have you been doing meanwhile pages over on the new 48 hour website

for those of you who missed it all

how could you! our teams were extraordinary … you might need to catch up on what you missed … games and photos and more reports coming here soon as we recover eno’ to collect everything … meanwhile – Australian Gamer has already got their coverage up over here:

http://www.australiangamer.com/news/1309_live_from_48hr_igda_game_making_challenge.html

http://www.australiangamer.com/news/1310_48hr_igda_game_making_midnight_update.html

http://www.australiangamer.com/news/1311_48hr_challenge_good_morning.html

http://www.australiangamer.com/news/1312_48hr_game_challenge_afternoon_update.html

http://www.australiangamer.com/news/1313_48hr_game_challenge_after_dark.html

http://www.australiangamer.com/news/1314_48_hr_game_challenge_-_matt_decides_16_is_enough.html

http://www.australiangamer.com/news/1315_48_hr_game_challenge_-_sleeping.html

http://www.australiangamer.com/news/1316_48_hr_game_challenge_-_phil_arrives_to_save_the_day.html

http://www.australiangamer.com/news/1317_48_hr_game_challenge_-_crunch_time.html

http://www.australiangamer.com/news/1318_48_hr_game_challenge_-_final_wrap-up.html

… looks like yug managed to remain alert after his generous after party to get the coverage to you all!

Tim who was actually competing as a member of Preemptive Revenge also managed to keep his reporting more or less up to date over on games.on.net

Kaitlyn Sawrey from triplej Hack was also reporting on the event – she tells us there should be a podcast over on the hack site soon …

Leanne of Portal Marmosets fame kept a blog of the event: http://portalmarmosets.blogspot.com/

SO brilliantly done all of you .. if you can’t wait for this little bunny to have sufficient coffee and you need to play something, this year’s winning team – second time around lords – Sif90 – still have a copy of their previous winning game (2007) over on their website … and of course you can admire the rather hasty photos of a number of splash screens from this year here under the GAMES page …

more updates coming …

48 hr article over on games.on.net

One of our victims challengers has a double life as a game journalist – check out the beginnings of Tim’s column on games on net … heh heh … a first person report from the trenches will be fabulous!

48hr game making challenge

We challenge you to produce a playable prototype game for the chance to win fame and fortune … but you only have 48 hours and we’re locking you in!

Join us for the sheer delight and lunacy that underpins the games industry! Find a small team (maximum of 6 people) and take the challenge to produce a prototype game in just 48 hours, starting 4pm Friday 3 October

If you can’t join us, you can watch and barrack for your favourite team here – live web-cam coming soon!

stop press 2008

Our own fabulous 3 blokes studio are hoping to put together a non competing pro-team so that they can act as mentors, join in the delight, spread the word …

3 Blokes Studio

stop press 2008

Australian Gamer will be covering the event

Final Post 2007

Again well done to all the teams! We had a great competition and can’t wait for next years… Here a some choice photos from the bunch.

Signing off until next year,

the Techies.

The Games

Sif90

Game link: http://ember.sif90.com/resources/48HourGame/Sticky_Geckos.zip

Site: http://team.sif90.com/

Lurker’s Craft

Game to be released late November according to the site.

Site: http://lurkerscraft.com/games.php?game=unnamed

Team Equidna

Game link: http://teamequidna.com/projects/48Hour/Clunk.zip

Instructions: http://teamequidna.com/projects/48Hour/controls.txt

Site: http://teamequidna.com

Black Van

Boltor Game: http://dev.aberrant.com.au/boltor/BoltorGame_4nov07.zip

Games and photos to appear here soon…

Stay tuned for games and photos, once the awesome techies regain their internet cap this place will be littered with links!