It's 2017! We're mostly still alive, mostly. Time to make some interesting games!

We'll be running a short creative indie game jam in the Oxford Hackspace.

All skill levels are welcome, be you a hardcore C programmer, a 2d artist, a twine dream weaver, or just wanting to dabble with some card and do a bit of board game design. You can work as teams or alone, and there will be plenty of experts in the room to bounce problems and ideas off.

There will a show and tell at the end, prizes for cool ideas, and we will be actively promoting any games made in the jam on Twitter.

Travel:

To get to the jam from London: There are regular trains from Paddington and Marylebone that take 50 minutes, however the best option is the Oxford tube, a cheap coach (with good seats, power plugs and wifi) that runs Oxford every 5-15 minutes 24 hours a day from Victoria, Nottinghill Gate, Marble Arch or Shephards Bush and will drop you right in the center of town.

Schedule:

The Jam will start at 1pm, with a short introduction. I suggest grabbing lunch before attending.

There will be free pizza for dinner around 7pm courtesy of Videobrains! We will also be right next to the Oxford highstreets and Castle quarter so you can pop out for something more exotic. The Hackspace also has a selection of drinks that can be bought from their kitchen and free tea and coffee.

At 7.30pm we will do the first of our show-and-tells for people who already have something working and for those are leaving earlier.

At 10 we will do our second where we will down tools and show off what we have come up with.

This will be followed by the giving out of prizes and a quick wrapup.

Connect:

If you want to form a team beforehand, or discuss the Jam use the hashtag #JanJam17 on Twitter.

Do email me if you have any specific needs.

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