While the Global Game Jam was never about winning, we in Scotland couldn’t resist throwing our own little competition into the mix; mostly because nothing drives people like the promise of freebies.
With Kestutis Tauckela, Anders Elfgren, James Strain and Muir McDonald from APB developer Realtime Worlds joining David Thompson from Denki Games as our judging panel, each of our nine teams presented their games and allowed the panel to get hands on with the games and award scores out of 30 based on design and gameplay criteria. In the end, the winning game was Panda Dragoon: Bees On Ice, with the three top-scoring teams scooping APB swag and a Gamestation gift card.
Here’s each of our games, how they scored, and a link to download each of them from the Global Game Jam website. Each link opens in a new window:
- Panda Dragoon: Bees On Ice – 105 points – Download
- Oh No! A Black Hole! Thank FUCK for the Intergalactic Moving Agency! – 102 points – Download
- Hardcore Sinkopation – 99 points – Download
- Bacterial Warfare – 91 points – Download
- Sewer Love – 83 points – Download
- Ghostlight – 80 points – Download
- Command and Deceive (joint 7th) - 76 points – Download
- How Do I Shot Web? (joint 7th) - 76 points – Download
- The Lord of the Rink: The Return of Rampuck – 65 points – No download available!
Some of the point tallies were extremely close, so hats off to those who just missed out on the top three because you all did brilliantly. Every last team put in the effort and produced something playable for the judges to try out in the space of 48 hours; a test of skill, stamina, endurance, and how many energy drinks and junk meals they could stomach without feeling ill.
Congratulations to our winners and commiserations to everyone else – we’ll hopefully see you all again next year!
SarcasticGamer.com editor and all-round Scottish Game Jam media superstar.