Board Game Jam takes a lot of work and sometimes some nice companies make our job easier, and more importantly, make the event better! Our sponsors for 2012 are: The Game Crafter The top three games from the Jam will be awarded something very special from The Game Crafter, an on-demand board game manufacturing website [...]
The theme for 2012 is….
First, some context: Last year we had the theme of ancient civilizations and we got some really neat games as a result. Plus people liked having an optional theme. You’re not obligated to follow the theme, but if you’re looking for an idea, this is a starting point. You can use the theme in all [...]
More Space to Build from GamingINC
GamingINC has donated some of their office space to use during Board Game Jam! GamingINC is an incubator for new companies in the digital and game space. They have some nice offices (pictured) that can be used by some teams as private building space. Here’s a litte more on the GamingINC space: The incubator space [...]
More Tickets and NEW Sunday Bar Location
Tickets to this year’s jam have sold quite well – so well that we’re adding more tickets! We’ve been able to add more tickets, but only 10 additional spots which means that as of posting this there’s only a dozen tickets left! Buy them now before all the tickets disappear: Event management for Board Game [...]
Early Bird Sales Extended & Sunday Night Fun!
We’ve heard you guys want more time to assemble your teams, and we listened! We’ve extended the Early Bird Tickets sale to next Friday (the 3rd). As I write this there are only 13 early bird tickets left before the regular tickets go on sale. You might want to get that team ready to go! [...]
Board Game Jam 2012 is a GO! Get Your Early Bird Tickets Now
Board Game Jam 2012 is happening Feburary 25-26 and tickets are on sale! If you love playing games of any sort then this Jam is for you. We welcome people of all levels from professionals to people who just love rolling dice. It’s a two day event starting on Saturday morning and concluding on Sunday [...]
Welcome to Board Game Jam 2!
Board Game Jam 2 is officially a go for February 25-26. Stay tuned for more details!
The Wrap-Up Post
Holy smokes! What a weekend. The numbers speak for themselves: between 40+ attendees (a sell-out crowd!), 17 games were worked on, and 14 brand new games were created, at a rate of 0.38 games per hour. At this rate, we could make over 3000 games in a year. Here’s all the games that were created [...]
Special Guest Stars
We’re pretty excited about the lunchtime panel we’ve got lined up for Saturday. Take a break from your game building, and join us for a discussion with some published board game designers. We’ve got: Steve Tassie, the designer of a series of “B-movie card games” published by Z-man games, including Grave Robbers from Outer Space, [...]
Resources at the Jam
A brief note on what resources you can expect to build with at Board Game Jam. On the high-tech side, we do have several computers available, loaded with Adobe CS software. We’re working on the wifi situation, though we won’t be sure about it until the day of. On the low-tech side, we’ve been going [...]
