Congratulations to Fukushima Game Jam!

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Congratulations to Fukushima Game Jam!

Fukushima Game Jam - a great success!
Jammers in Minamisoma, Japan supported the recovering Tohoku region after the devastating earthquake earlier this year. The Fukushima Game Jam took place this weekend, August 27, 28th and was a great success.

Eight teams worked together to develop games from start to finish in 30 hours. Organised by IGDA Japan and Ubiquitous Entertainment.

The theme for the event was Fun Overcomes Difficulty, and they did show the world that that enthusiasm and energy can do amazing things.

The energy of this event shows the world what Japan can do!

By laurieg at 08/28/2011 - 12:22
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Great Story

By louisbayderson at 01/22/2012 - 12:16
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Congratulation on the event. It does show a lot of unity among japanese. The earthquake that happened at japan can happen anywhere too. So getting short term disability insurance should be a consideration to protect yourself.

I'm proud of you guys. Even

By sumvan at 01/13/2012 - 18:03
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I'm proud of you guys. Even though you just went from a very horrible calamity, you still stand and never surrendered. Keep up the good work!

News in Spanish:

By pexbest at 10/05/2011 - 06:11
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http://bit.ly/mUGcen

Fukushima Game Jam busca incentivar
el desarrollo de juegos tras el terremoto de Japón.
Artistas como Tetsuya Mizuguchi participarán en esta iniciativa.

More reports in English

By syamane at 08/29/2011 - 18:21
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More reports on Fukushima Game Jam in English are comming!

Fukushima Game Jam, Tokyo NII Satellite Campus (less than 4 minutes)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=duanoZ7Sq5A
Fukushima Game Jam Ustream session in English (1 hour program)
http://www.ustream.tv/recorded/16911587

Thank you!

By syamane at 08/29/2011 - 17:52
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We IGDA Japan chapter members had been looking for the way to contribute the tragedic situation after 3.11 diseases. The successful experience of GGJ11 in January told us that the game jam can encourage people and share our passion nationwide (For example of GGJ11 titles, see IGDA Newsletter Featured Game, http://globalgamejam.org/node/16838). Thanks a lot for GGJ.

General information in English: http://fgj11.ecloud.nii.ac.jp/?page_id=182
Minami-Soma City, our main game jam site, is well known worldwide after 311 by a famous YouTube movie.
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/04/07/world/asia/07plea.html
and the mayer were selected in 2011 TIME 100 most influential people in the world.
http://www.time.com/time/specials/packages/article/0,28804,2066367_20663...

After the game jam, each local jam sites are planning their review events now.