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Global Game Jam 2025: Bubble Girl
For this year I paired up with Tim Ottenhof again. We also participated in the 2024 edition together. This years theme: Bubble. Fairly quickly we decided to go big and create a game inspired by arch hero, a 2D top down rogue-like. Going this big was a bit too ambitious. In 48 hours we were…
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Global Game Jam 2024: Amuse-a-Thon
This year I teamed up with Tim Ottenhof to create Amuse-A-Thon. This years theme: Make Me Laugh. Playlink: https://slyemenike.com/ggj/2024 GGJ Site: https://globalgamejam.org/games/2024/amuse-thon-4 It was my first gamejam with only two people, the pressure was high to deliver. We only had 48 hours to make one game. What did we decide to do? To make 12 games. The…
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Global Game Jam 2023: La Roota Madre
Unfortunately, I couldn’t participate in GGJ 2022, but GGJ 2023 made up for that! Following tradition, we created a local co-op game, but this time it was an imposter variant. Welcome to Rumbleroot, a magical land where four brave bears embark on a quest to offer turnips to the mighty La Roota Madre. But there’s…
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Global Game Jam 2021: Operation: Wabshnug
Global Game Jam 2021 was an online edition. I participated in a team of 6 to create a turn-based multiplayer game called Operation: Wabshnug. We had to continue with the trend of creating multiplayer games. Since this was an online edition we decided to work on a online multiplayer game. It was a challenging jam,…
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Global Game Jam 2020: Broken Bridges
This year we created a 2v2 local-multiplayer game with 6 people. It is made in PlayCanvas, a 3d JavaScript game engine. As the years before we had 48 hours at the HvA to create a game. It was a weekend of a bit of sleep, snacks everywhere and lots of fun. Theme: RepairPlay: https://slyemenike.com/ggj/broken-bridgesGGJ site:…
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Global Game Jam 2019: Snail Trail
My third Global Game Jam, and it was an awesome one. 48 hours at the HvA with about 8 hours of sleep in total (worth it). We art starting to form a pattern here, we decided to work on another local-multiplayer game. With a group of 2 artists and 4 programmers we came up with…
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Global Game Jam 2018: Patent Bro’s
My second Global Game Jam! This years theme: Transmission. It is my first time to participate the jam with friends and colleagues. Also my first time actually sleeping at the location itself. We joined the jam with a group of 9 people. Too big for a team so we decided to split up into 2…
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Global Game Jam 2017: We’re Still Here
My first Global Game Jam! At the start of my internship at Virtual Play I was asked if I would like to join their team at the GGJ. (I said yes!) It was my second game game jam, but it was still mysterious in a way. It was great fun and a nice introduction to…