Do you have a creative flair? Do you have a passion for designing and playing location-based games?

Then, we are delighted to invite you to our MAGELLAN Game Jam!

In the heart of London, we welcome all game designers and developers, but also creative industry professionals (like web designers, digital artists, researchers and academics in games technology and technology-enhanced learning and individuals with a passion for gaming), who are enthusiastic about creating their own location-based game.

Join us to explore the MAGELLAN Authoring Tool (the MAT), our novel environment for designing and publishing location-based games on the Android platform.

Get a chance to compete for great Amazon Voucher prizes (£300 to the 1st runner-up, £100 to the 2nd and £100 to the 3rd) to be awarded to the most innovative games created during the event.

When: 30 June 2017

Where: Coventry University’s London Campus, London, UK

Cost: FREE (Lunch and coffee breaks provided to all participants)

Requirements: Bring your own laptop (we provide the installation kit, license & training material)

Want to know more about the MAGELLAN Game Jam?

• A place to challenge yourself and compete against other game developers for swiftly creating the best location-based game using the MAT.
• A chance to gain valuable experience and knowledge on developing location-based games for your professional applications on a complementary platform for games’ authoring.
• A unique opportunity to design and play-test your location-based game on mobile devices on the spot.
• An occasion to become part of a community of like-minded people and location-based game enthusiasts for exchanging ideas and practices.
• A shot to win an exclusive prize that you can spend on gadgets, books, technology… you name it!

Don’t wait! Just join us![*]

For any questions, please contact any member of the event organising team:

Pat Brundell (Pat.Brundell@nottingham.ac.uk),Boriana Koleva (B.Koleva@nottingham.ac.uk),Petros Lameras (PLameras@cad.coventry.ac.uk),Despina Anastasiadou (DAnastasiadou@cad.coventry.ac.uk),Vasiliki Papageorgiou (VPapageorgiou@cad.coventry.ac.uk)

MAGELLAN is a project co-funded by the European Commission within the 7th Framework Programme, that aims to enhance peoples’ creativity by establishing a platform for authoring, web-publishing, and experiencing location-based games (http://www.magellanproject.eu/). One of the primary purposes of creating such a game authoring web-based environment is for supporting collaboration, problem-solving, publication, search and delivery of a number of location-based experiences potentially involving multiple participants or players trying to collaborate with each other or against for achieving a targeted goal. The platform aims to offer the necessary tools and services to the wider user-group community that wish to author and publish location-based experiences as well as to players who are keen to play such immersive non-linear games.