Kokoromi Collective

living the dream

February 7th, 2009 by moboid

Last weekend I gave the local keynote at the Nordic Game Jam (on the subject of designing games to motivate behavior change) and then hung out with the No More Sweden crew to make some jam games.

My team started as a triumvirate of Petri Purho, Cactus, and myself, but through the process of creative mitosis this team became two: Kloonigames (Petri, Heather, and Cactus) and Cactus+friends (Cactus, Heather, and Petri).

And so it was that, 48 hours later, were born our games 4′33″ of Uniqueness (NGJ award for innovation) and gaba aba (NGJ award for graphics), as well as Jonas, Joel, and Martin’s In One Piece (NGJ Audience Award), and the adorable game that Kian, Erik and Bernie made, but haven’t uploaded yet (I can’t remember what they decided to call it).  Plus there were a bunch of other games made by awesome Scandinavians and their friends.  Check out especially Make My Head Grow which was the far-and-away winner in the brand-new “bring from home” category at NGJ, where teams were allowed to form before the event, and bring assets with them.  Which means those aren’t exactly jam games, but some were awesome anyways.

Thanks to Nordic Game Jam and the folks at the Center for Computer Games Research at IT University Copenhagen for having me out, and thanks to the NMS guys for a great time!

And thanks to Martin for the nice photos!

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