{"id":65627,"date":"2016-02-07T13:00:43","date_gmt":"2016-02-07T18:00:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/?p=65627"},"modified":"2016-02-06T13:11:57","modified_gmt":"2016-02-06T18:11:57","slug":"morrisville-state-jammers-create-video-games-under-the-clock","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/?p=65627","title":{"rendered":"Morrisville State Jammers Create Video Games Under the Clock"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Ryan Dannerlein writes ideas for his team, \u201cRite of Passage,\u201d during this year\u2019s Global Game Jam. Morrisville State College served as a host site again for the event. (Photo by Franci Valenzano, Public Relations Associate)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

(Morrisville, NY \u2013 Feb. 2016) Sorcery, monsters, witches, demons, and a main character who had to stop a horrible ritual from happening, set the scene for a team of Morrisville State College students who participated in this year\u2019s Global Game Jam.<\/p>\n

The seven-member \u201cRite of Passage\u201d team was among 40 students, alumni, staff, and students from the Lafayette Big Picture School who joined 36,000 participants from all over the world for this year\u2019s massive event, recognized as the largest in the world by the\u00a0Guinness Book of World Records.<\/p>\n

Morrisville State College\u00a0was one of only a handful of sites in New York State to host the event, which provided a chance for gamers throughout the world to collaborate, explore creativity, tout inventiveness and let their imaginations roam as they created playable video and board games in the course of one weekend.<\/p>\n

All sites worldwide were challenged with making games based on the same theme, \u201critual,\u201d which was revealed at the beginning of the event.<\/p>\n

Participants met at the college on Friday, Jan. 29, formed teams, then\u00a0spent the next 48 hours brainstorming and designing a new game from scratch without any outside help.<\/p>\n

Ryan Dennerlein, of\u00a0North Babylon, a computer science student and member of the \u201cRight of Passage\u201d team, was focusing on map making and concepts while teammate Christian Morris, an information technology-application software development student from\u00a0Mount Upton, was writing the storyboard and conjuring up ideas for their game. For the second year, Courtney Mooney, an information technology student fromMiddleburgh, was the team\u2019s artist.<\/p>\n

Building on the experience of five veteran jammers, their team strategy was to get more sleep during the event and to stay small. \u201cWe decided to go small this year and work our way out,\u201d said Jake Crawford, a residential construction student from\u00a0Munnsville. \u201cWe got a lot farther this year with our ideas and we were more organized,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

They also balanced their team with members who had varying skills including a programmer, artist and storyboard writer.<\/p>\n

Participants brought music, food, energy drinks and candy to help\u00a0fuel their minds throughout the weekend.<\/p>\n

Team \u201cOptionate\u201d decided to spend the night in sleeping bags on the floor to conserve time.<\/p>\n

\u201cOur team is focusing on the story rather than the game play because we don\u2019t have a large team and we don\u2019t have a programmer or an artist,\u201d said Johann DeWolf, an information technology-end user support student from\u00a0Syracuse.<\/p>\n

All finished GGJ games get archived onto a Game Jam website for everyone to play. For a\u00a0database of downloadable games, photos and video from the events and more, visit:\u00a0http:\/\/globalgamejam.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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(Morrisville, NY \u2013 Feb. 2016) Sorcery, monsters, witches, demons, and a main character who had to stop a horrible ritual from happening, set the scene for a team of Morrisville State College students who participated in this year\u2019s Global Game Jam. The seven-member \u201cRite of Passage\u201d team was among 40 students, alumni, staff, and students […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_hide_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_featured_image_duplicate_dismissed":0,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-65627","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p43meu-h4v","jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65627","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=65627"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65627\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=65627"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=65627"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=65627"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}