Global Game Jam 2012 Shanghai @Coconut Island
Dear Jammers,
In 2011 we’ve had 2 great jamming events GGJ 2011 & the 1st Shanghai Game Jam. Through these great jams one thing becomes more and more clearer that in China we got a lot of talented game developers who could make really cool and innovative games. They didn’t know each other until came to the Game Jam. And at the mean time the indie game developer community in China is being built. That’s what we’re really excited about. We would like to see the community thriving and be the witnesses of this great moment.
So many blahblahs now back to the point: Global Game Jam 2012 is opening for sign up. We’ll host it at our Shanghai office from 01.27.2012 4 PM till 01.29.2012 8 PM. only 15 people can be served so don’t hesitate to sign up now here otherwise we can’t reserve a place for you.
The location information:
Coconut Island Studio
Room 1805
Jing Hai Building
No.9 Lane 89 Anshun Road
Shanghai
Yours,
Jammer and Organizor of Global Game Jam 2012 Shanghai Site
Free Jammers
Besides the 11 video games, we also have created board games in Shanghai Game Jam this time like Free Jammers. It is a 2 to 5-player adventure board game with a built-in DBG (deck building game), a card game system where each player builds his own deck of cards over the course of the game. In the game Free Jammers, players are healers from different professions enter the abyss-like game production dungeon, resurrect jammers such as programmers, designers, illustrators etc., eliminate the evil bosses, and finally bring all the jammers to the 2011 Shanghai Game Jam.
In the beginning game, each player receives 12 cards (6 single gold cards, 5 element cards, and 1 backpack card), shuffles them face down to form his own player deck, and draws 5 cards to his hand and prepare to start the game. In addition, dice are rolled to determine the starting location of players’ tokens and 7 target (jammers and bosses) tokens on a 6 x 6 grid game board.
The youngest player also the starting player takes the first turn of the game, and other players continue to take a turn in clockwise direction. During a turn, player may take a number of following actions that his cards allow.
Use gold to trade for element and add the element to his deck
Use element and/or gold to additional tool and add the tool to his deck
Use element to move his token on the board
Use elements to resurrect jammer and receive N VP
Use elements and gold to eliminate boss and receive 2 VP or 4 VP
In the end of a turn, all unused hand cards are placed face up in player’s discard pile, and the player redraw 5 new cards from his deck to his hand. If his deck is depleted, simply reshuffle his discard pile to form a new deck. Also, if there are less than 7 target tokens on the board, simply draw a target card and roll the dice to determine its location.
When a player receives 10 VP, the game continues until the last player finishes his turn, and the player with most VP wins the game. In case of a tie, the player with most resurrected jammers wins. If it is still a tie, then players share the victory.
Authors: Ta-Te Wu, Mousyui, Mathew Han, Rora Cao, and Steven Sheng
Player: 2-5
Platform: Board Game
Time: 30 Minutes
Age: 10+
McDonald’s Joker Fighting with KFC Grandfather
The story is about McDonald’s Joker fighting with KFC grandfather. Unfortunately his head is cut off by KFC grandfather. The magic thing is player can control both his head and his body. And the head is taken from developer vinjn’s photo to make the game more funny.
Gameplay: It is supposed to be a two-player game. Use keyboard W/S/A/D and mouse to control the body and the head. When the two parts are close enough, french fries will shoot automatically, and you can shout to you microphone to send out a flame. The floating Coke brings super power, that means a shout will kill all the enemies.
Team Members: Designer, Programmer/ Jing Zhang
Artist/ Wenqing Qiu
Platform: Windows PC, Mac, Linux
Download Link: (Java Runtime is needed)
Yin And Yang
This game is called Magic Brick. It’s a small easy game. The game rule is very simple. At first the statue in the middle will die and you must light four towers to make the statue relive. The only way to light the tower is that the colours of the tower and the brick under you are the same. And when you are on the blue or red brick, you can only go to the yellow one and when you on the yellow brick you can only go to the blue or red one. This idea is from Chinese culture Yin Yang. You can’t go between Yin and Yang. You must first go to the normal( which is yellow brick in the game) and then go to the Yin or Yang you like. Also you can’t go from normal to normal. and in the middle there is a special brick and you can go to any colour from that place. The operation is also simple. Press Key UP, DOWN, LEFT and RIGHT for move and SPACE BAR for change the four brick’s colour around you.
Team Members:
Programmers/Rui Di, Peng Zhang, Bo Qin, Yanbin Wang, Yayun Tian
Artist: Zhen Zhang
Platform: PC
It’s Alive
Itʼs Alive is a turn based multiplayer game for the iPad. It inspires itself from the classic movie Frankenstein published by Universal Pictures in 1931. Our doctor, though, is a octopus with 2 distinct and active personalities. Both of them wants to build a different corps but to build one, the octopus needs to type a sequence of keyboard keys so the machine he designed can sew each body parts together. Having two personalities but only one body, entering the key sequence on a single keyboard is going to be a funny tentacle mess.
Instructions: The screen displays a big keyboard. Each turn, the players will be given a key to press and hold by the octopus. If one key is missed, the sequence has to be restarted from the beginning. The winner is the first one who can complete and hold a sequence of 5 keys.
Team Members:
Designer/Florian Garcia
Programmer/Henrik Flink
Artist: Chen Zou
Platform: iPad
Holy Cross
You’re Ares and just entered a battlefield in ancient age. The battle is in a stalemate and the knights fight head to head against undead zombies. The player has powerful resurrection ability which can bring dead units back to life(it works both for knights and zombies)
The goal of the player is to rescue the knights continuously and avoid resurrecting the zombies. You must be quick otherwise the dead knights will turn to zombies and that’ll be a holy mess. So hurry up and pick up the cross, fight!
Team Members: Designer/Wesley Bao
Programmer/Jiabin He
Artist/Xellos Cai
Platform: Windows PC
Rebuild
This is a game about exploring maze and getting back body parts to resurrect. Whatever body part you find you have to accept it and the game will give an evaluation to your new figure after your resurrection.
Game Name: Rebuild
Team Members: Designer/Lu Zhang
Programmer/Xiang Wang, Wei Li
Artist/Wenyue Zhou
Platform: Windows PC
Sealed Village 2 – The Return of the Devil
Sealed Village is an arena game. Yon control a dead devil that must firstly absorb energy from the guards and avoid being detected by them otherwise will be attacked. After intaking enough energy you can turn yourself into “devil king” mode and kill the villagers. Once you killed 666 people you will resurrect.
Team Members:
Gamer Desinger: Liang Li
Programmer: Xiang Tian, Guan Wang
Artist: Xun Zhu
Sound: Chen Huang
Platform: Windows PC
Will Hunter
Through the gameplay you’ll collect the soul pieces in space and send them to the heaven’s gate that let the lives resurrect and ascend to heaven.
Team Members:
Game Designer/Ioannis Moutafoglou
Programmer/Chenzhong Wang
Artist/ Xellos Cai, Yiming Yao
Platform: iPad
