Teams at the Morrisville State site prepare their games during past Global Game Jams.
(Morrisville, NY – Jan. 2015) Morrisville State will once again serve as a host site for teams of artists, hobbyists, programmers, designers and musicians during the popular Global Game Jam, which will be held Jan. 23-25.
Morrisville is one of only a handful of sites in New York State hosting the event, which is a chance for gamers throughout the world to collaborate to explore creativity, tout inventiveness and let imaginations roam as they create playable video games in the course of one weekend.
Morrisville State students, alumni, staff and community members are invited to be among thousands of participants from all over the world taking part in the GGJ, which is recognized as the largest in the world by the Guinness Book of World Records.
The event is open for amateurs, professionals, hobbyists and those with a passion for making games. Anyone over the age of 18 can register to participate in the GGJ at Morrisville State. Registration, which is required, is $10 and includes a T-shirt.
Participants meet at the college on Friday, Jan. 23 in Charlton Hall where they will be given a theme, break into teams which will be formed on-site, then spend the next 48 hours brainstorming and designing a new game from scratch without any outside help.
All finished GGJ games will be archived onto a Game Jam website for everyone to play.
This is the sixth year the college is serving as a host site for the international event, now in its seventh year. Some of the games participants at the Morrisville site have created include: Traps: The Spanish Adventurer (a journey to prove capability as an adventurer, by collecting all of the gold); Ex-Extinction (Sir Captain Rawrington must save his dinosaur ancestors from the incoming asteroid onslaught); and Flight Team Phoenix (pilot a phoenix spaceship and eliminate alien enemies).
For more information or to register to participate at the Morrisville State Game Jam site, go to www.morrisville.edu/gamejam, contact Richard Marcoux, Ph.D., at 315.684.6788 or e-mail him at marcourp@morrisville.edu.