Game Jam Mini Report
Posted by Ben Sawyer on 08-10-18The Games for Health Project held its first ever Games for Health Game Jam this weekend at the University of Baltimore in Baltimore, MD. Seven teams competed for $4,000 in cash prizes. The prototypes they built had to deal with the issue of caloric differential (i.e. many people are eating slightly more in calories then we expend - about 150-200 calroies on average per day.) in just 24 hours.
All seven teams produced some level of prototype. A student team from the University of Baltimore won by designing two mini games (of an envisioned series of mini-games) that were designed to help people think of the ever small number of things they can do to reduce the calorie differential in their daily lives.
Click here for a few photos from the event. We will have a full report later this week with screenshots and more from all the excellent entries. A big thanks to all the participants and the University of Baltimore for making this a great event. Expect more sponsored Jams in the future.
One of the teams posing for a quick photo.
Peter Smith from UCF came up to help with judging and logistics.
The eventual winning team hard at work.
The UMUC team conferring over artwork with their artist for their game Bite Me.
Another shot of the team from UMUC.
A group from Firaxis games + One Friend joined us all weekend and produced their entry Snax!
Team Trollbreath hard at work. They took an honorable mention.
Another shot of the winning team from U. Baltimore.
All game jams have pizza and coffee. We also did have apples, and other healthy snacks.
Back across the room you can see four of the seven teams working.