48hr Game Making Challenge

48 hours … 3 words …. 20 teams …. and one kitchen …

For those of you hoping to relive the magic ..

Aussie Gamer (bring yug to melbourne!) has some fabulous write ups and nice photos:

• 48 hour game making challenge: 5 minutes to go!
• 48 hour game making challenge: 3 hours to go!
• 48 hour game making challenge: 12 hours in
• and of course the Aussie Gamer Live Podcast from the 48 hour game making challenge
  

We were also featured on ABC local radio – once on the early morning show and later on Drive:

Oct 05 2009 – 612 reporter Amanda Dell went to see some very bleary eyed, yet enthusiastic game makers in action. [mp3]

and some bloggings

• Tsumea – 48hr game making challenge
• 72pin connector – The peoples games: My Mechanical Romance
• polymonkey_code  – Can I make a game in 48 hours?
• dimensionography – stories live from the comp

We are still waiting for some final builds to come in – but meanwhile here is the list again and links to the games produced during the 48 hour period – i have been playing them again and it is absolutely extraordinary how well everyone did!  Enjoy

• Anger Issues with “Herder”  – Ausie Gamer ‘Best Logo Award Winner’
• Black Wolf Games with  “High Hopes – with high hopes a fall can hurt!” – GameOn Teams: Overall Winner [download game]
• Curious Bear (Pros) with “My Mechanical Romance” – Pro-League Winner [download game]
• Dimensionography with “A Forest Fair and Still”
• Feisty Studios with “Phee Phi  Pho Phum – but we have been up since wednesday!” – GameOn Teams: Best Game that Never Was Winner (obviously no game to download – but they did have a fabulous engine!)
• Friction with “Storm of the Titans” – GameOn teams: Best Graphics [download game]
• Immigration Office with  the “The Great Migration – big love” – GameOn Teams: Best Concept [download game]
• Lurker’s Craft with “Over well m” – GameOn Teams: Most Polished Game [download game]
• Milk  & Pickles with “Tikki-Tikki – who needs sleep?” – GameOn Teams: Least Sleep Award [download game]
• Monkey Something (Pros) with “Thunder Head’s Garden – it’s bad to be a bunny”
• Mudkips Do It Better with “Lost Love Letter Chronicles XIV – the adventures of Elopee” [download game]
• Overflow with “Sky Pirates – aaargh!”
• Play with “Giant Love Storm! – fatal attraction” – [visit site- coming soon anyway]
• Pre-emptive Revenge with “Cloud Rider – unless some else has already got that in which case we will kill them!” [download game]
• Sick Fish with “Fat My Bitch Up” (Rated M15) – GameOn Teams: 3rd Runner Up [download game]
• SIF90 (Pros) with “Once Upon a Stormy Night” [download game]
• Super Dev Bros with “Super Giant Happy Love Quest – giant love is all you need (and storms) – GameOn Teams: 2nd Runner Up [download game]
• Team Atrementarious with “Heart Quaker – something about the crazy fans!” [download game]
• Team Echidna with “Hibbles -  use the other mouse button” – GameOn Teams: Best Audio [download game]
• Team Kidbrain with “Oh Bee Have!” [download game]

We have started a new page and will be uploading the games over the next couple of days … here is the Pro team winner to start you all off … visit the GAMES pages to check for updates and more

Pro Team Winner: Curious Bear with “My Mechanical Romance”

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Download game (RAR)

Congratulations Curious Bear – visit their website for more of their goodies: CuriousBearProductions.com

GameOn teams: Overall Winner: Black Wolf with “High Hopes”

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Download game (zip)

Congratulations Black Wolf – so pleased that your trip up from Wollongong was so worthwhile this year – and many thanks to those people at SCSSE @UOW who supported you!

The games are coming but meanwhile here is a selection of the game videos … youtube playlist here and here

Playlist: Kidbrain, Lurker’s Craft, Mudkips, Overflow, Sick Fish, Super Dev Bros

Playlist: Immigration Office, Dimensionography, BlackWolf, Atrementarious, Anger Issues, SIF90

Relive the magic:

studio-gameOn: 48hr 2009 set

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a little late – if you haven’t been following this over on twitter here is the full list of winners for the fabulous 48 hour 2009

Pro-League Winner:

Curious Bear – My Mechanical Romance

GameOn Teams:

Best Graphic Award – Team Friction

Most Polished Game – Lurker’s Craft

No Sleep Award – Milk & Pickles

Best Concept – Immigration Office

Best Audio – Team Echidna

3rd Runner Up: Sick Fish

2nd Runner Up: Super Dev Bros

and gameOn teams overall winner: Black Wolf

Congratulations to ALL the teams – you were ALL marvelous for simply taking part … photos, videos and games coming soon .. this year was amazing, the competition intense, the quality utterly extraordinary and we can’t wait to see where some of these games produced in the 48 hour hothouse end up …

This time it’s serious … !

a teaser for you all … the names of the games that are coming … oh SO soon …

in no particular order, we shall be showing the judges ..

• Anger Issues with “Herder”
• Black Wolf Games with  “High Hopes – with high hopes a fall can hurt!”
• Curious Bear (Pros) with “My Mechanical Romance”
• Dimensionography with “A Forest Fair and Still”
• Feisty Studios with “Phee Phi  Pho Phum – but we have been up since wednesday!”
• Friction with “Storm of the Titans”
• Immigration Office with  the “The Great Migration – big love”
• Lurker’s Craft with “Over well m”
• Milk  & Pickles with “Tikki-Tikki – who needs sleep?”
• Monkey Something (Pros) with “Thunder Head’s Garden – it’s bad to be a bunny”
• Mudkips Do It Better with “Lost Love Letter Chronicles XIV – the adventures of Elopee”
• Overflow with “Sky Pirates – aaargh!”
• Play with “Giant Love Storm! – fatal attraction”
• Pre-emptive Revenge with “Cloud Rider – unless some else has already got that in which case we will kill them!”
• Sick Fish with “Feed My Bitch Up” (Rated M15)
• SIF90 (Pros) with “Once Upon a Stormy Night”
• Super Dev Bros with “Super Giant Happy Love Quest – giant love is all you need (and storms)
• Team Atrementarious with “Heart Quaker – sometihng about the crazy fans!”
• Team Echidna with “Hibbles -  use the other mouse button”
• Team Kidbrain with “Oh Bee Have!”

And what have they been involved in this madness for? Our fabulous gameOn 48 hour MUGS

One of our honoured judges has arrived early and the atmosphere is getting a tad tense as endgame approaches … the ever alert press has set up and the ENDGAME schedule is by the door …

Judging is going to be *tough* this year – so many fabulous games …