Yesterday's Jam

by MickM | 07-11-2008 | Blog 166 views

This weekend was hectic. Fun, but a lot.
And to resume it, it was a great experience and made some new friends, but I did miss my weekend a little.

Last week I was invited by the project manager of the Dutch Game Garden to participate in the Gamejam this weekend which was basically a weekend full of quick brainstorming and concepting in the form of a contest.
At first, I was affraid it was gonna be Camp Geek, because I hate the whole camp-atmosphere, but it turned out to be a really cool atmosphere.

Nice people and nice work. That was my overall judgement. I cannot speak about anything related to what we did, but we had people from the gaming-industry and the television-industry "join forces" to battle the dullness of a certain item that needed some creative pimping! OH SNAP! Yeah that kind of pimping.

The 17th, we will hear if the concept my team and I came up with, was indeed the best. We thought it was ;)

But yeah. Although it was very cool, I do miss my weekend. I didn't get a chance to sleep well because the public transportation is even crappier in the weekend, which made me get up even earlier then I'd normally do.
And because I was busy brainstorming all week (which is no big deal), it doesn't feel like monday today.

I must say that it's a big reality-smack-in-the-face. Going from brainstorming with trained pro's to brainstorming with people who rarely do it.
I prefer the Gamejam-way... That, I miss...