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X48 GameCamp - XNA student face off

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If so, and I'm currently expecting approximatley 0 people, you should attend this:

X48 GameCamp

http://www.x48gamecamp.com/

What: X48 is a marathon gamecamp where students and indie developers use Microsoft's XNA Studio 3.0 to create a game in less than 48 hours.

Where: University of Derby (map)

When: Friday 20th - Saturday 21st March 2009

it's something Nachimir has organised in conjunction with microsoft, and should be a whole lotta fun. :)

Edited by Spaff

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Before I start this post - Disclaimer - I was paid to work on this project.

Anyways, the games from this 48 hour game camp are now available to download and play, with a lot of hurdles to jump through potentially, but even so, some might be worth taking a peek at.

Ahem, So there were 18 teams of students, and they had under 48 hours to make a game based on the topic of "Charles Darwin and the Theory of Evolution"

Some teams decided to force the subject matter over existing concepts such as Street Fighter or platform puzzlers, but some teams went in other more interesting directions.

These two were particularly interesting to me, this peaceful seed spreading game, called Bellis Perennis

http://vimeo.com/groups/x48/videos/3837368

And sevolution, which attempts to teach the player about DNA structures, whilst they steer a fish up and down

http://vimeo.com/groups/x48/videos/3851773

Anyways, all the games are downloadable, (http://www.x48gamecamp.com/games/) you just have to install a million pieces of MS software to play them, but if you get the time, maybe check em out.

It was a really fun weekend, and I really wished I could take part, despite having no real abilities that would be useful to anyone. It was kinda like a LAN where you make games instead of playing them.

Nachimir and I had much fun, and managed to convince all of the mentors there to undergo bizarre interview rituals, such as

Tom Armitage in a Lift: http://vimeo.com/groups/x48/videos/3787393

Azka Malik being dragged around on a bean bag: http://vimeo.com/groups/x48/videos/3787058

and many more…

I also made Nachimir attack his colleague with a giant beanbag:

http://vimeo.com/groups/x48/videos/3781464

Also Nachimir:fart: in the lift

http://vimeo.com/groups/x48/videos/3780816

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Disclaimer: I too was paid to work on this, and I'm pleased with how it went,

but my favorite bits were the arsing around. Like making an igndotcom twitter account with Spaff and Infovore, that as of last week placed higher in twitter's user search then their official one :)

Doing really basic interviews with people in strange places was also good fun. We interviewed Ed from Microsoft by getting him to use a megaphone from a hundred metres or so away, Infovore in a lift, and Azka from Channel 4 on a moving beanbag :)

We also arsed around with leftover balloons after everyone had gone. We couldn't fit them in the car or the van, didn't want to leave a mess, so I ended up giving them to a bunch of students we found in the car park.

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I made a sweet quad-tree decomposition app in XNA a few years ago. You could find the verticies and intersections of triangles. Triangles, people! Maybe with XNA 3.0 I'll be able to do squares. It's pretty ambitious, but with a little bit of funding....

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