Global Games Jam 2016

Amazing turn out at the final global games jam hosted at the Stafford campus at Staffordshire University. Over 400 participants comprised of industry professionals, alumni, current students and college students.

Our teams work space during the Jam in the Epic games labs.

Renn and Nic starting to brainstorm their game idea.

 Jason jamming in his music corner on the left and ricardo playing guitar on the right :)

 Nice reunion with old university friends

 The team playtesting our game

 Vix interviewing college lecturers with her Camera Cannon :D

 Other games jammers playing our game

Some shots of a friends team in the F labs

Enough photos, you can check out the game our team made by watching the video below. The theme for the Jam ended up being ritual and our team decided to make a game about feeding sacrificing chickens.

http://globalgamejam.org/2016/games/sacriflate

You can also find out more about the Global Games Jam event here:
http://globalgamejam.org/





Thanks for reading,
-Andy

3dsmax with a tablet PC using Artdock

During my Christmas holidays Ifigured I would spend a couple of hours trying 3dsmax on a tablet PC. Using a nice little autohotkey app called ArtDock, if you have a windows tablet you can find the download at the link below

http://konartist3d.deviantart.com/art/ArtDock-283342420

I was surprised at how quickly I adjusted to not using a mouse and keyboard to software like max, but because most hotkeys aside from shift are on the side panel I barely missed either. I spent a couple of hours modeling a metal slug tank

The whole process of only using a tablet stylus in max has left me wondering if its worth switching back to using a mouse which is quite clunky for navigating 3d space.