ITGM student Alex Gregorie and ANIM student Jessica Stevenson were part of Team Weird Tales at Global Game Jam, which was held at Southern Polytechnic State University January 25-27, 2013. The Georgia site (which SCAD and SPSU take turns hosting annually) was the fourth largest in the world with over 230 participants. The Global Game Jam (GGJ) is the world’s largest game jam event, and is a model of interdisciplinary collaboration. From Friday at 5pm until Sunday at 5pm students with interests ranging from game design, animation, and programming to writing, audio, and illustration gather to form teams and create playable games based on a theme announced at the kick-off of the event.

This year there were 16,647 jammers registered at 320 jam sites located in 63 countries. Of the 230 in Georgia, SCAD was well represented in the winning team. The game is called In the Jaws of the Servitor! SCAD faculty supervisors from ITGM, ANIM, and VSFX: Marty Altman, Chris Dodson, and Tony Tseng.

Click here to watch a gameplay video on YouTube.
Click here to download the game (Runs on Windows OS).

Full team credits:
Britt Briscoe: project management, design
Matthew Gold: programming
Alex Gregorie: environment art, user interface
David Lin: sound
Sisoes Molina: design
Natalie Perez: sound
Ian Phillpotts: modeling, animation, rigging
Jessica Stevenson: modeling, animation

The 24-hour Generate event is legendary at SCAD Atlanta. Typically there will be challenges from many individual majors. This year ANIM and ITGM teamed up for a 3-part creature design challenge. Professors Matt Maloney and Tony Tseng worked with Atlanta game development companies Hi-Rez Studios and CCP Games, as well as with SCAD alum Scott Spencer, with WETA Workshop. Students produced traditional and digital concept art, sculpted Sculpey maquettes, and developed detailed 3D models.

Tony Tseng, Matt Maloney, and Chris Dodson work with students early in the concept development phase. Read all about the collaborative ANIM/ITGM challenge on the Generate blog: http://blog.scad.edu/generate/