I experimented with GGJ13 at NII in Japan.

1. An Experiment of 1/319
@mnagaku
(GGJ13 Organizer at NII in Japan)
Special Thanks : Internationalization Task Force, IGDA Japan
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2. Skills utilized at the Game Jam
programming
art
game design (system, level)
audio engineering and composition
project management
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3. Can we find
story and/or narrative elements in games
made at the Game Jam?
Games developed at the Game Jam are
usually classified as 3D(or 2D) action.
Games with story and narrative
elements had not been seen before.
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4. Story and narrative elements in games?
In Japan, Stories and narratives are
very important in games.
Many Japanese game developers have
to realize that.
Reference : Visual novel
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Visual_novel
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5. Do you want
the Game Jam to be like that?
NO! so I Acted :
http://globalgamejam.org/sites/2013/national-institute-informatics
I said,
"You do not have to come
if you're a programmer."
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6. GGJ2013 at NII in Japan
Three-person teams created
an ARG(like visual novel)
for smartphones.
We used a modified version of
AtlasX(visual novel game engine) for it.
I modified the tool.
We developed our games
in only 16 hours at the venue.
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7. Result
Most of the participants
were new to Game Jams.
Female participants: 7/18
(higher ratio than other venues in Japan)
Allocation of development resources:
story and narrative > programming
And we made six stories.
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8. I Think :
True democracy does not mean
"It is easy to develop 3D action games."
If the "Democratization of game
development" progresses and evolves,
Children will develop games in school.
Everyone will, at least once, experience
the game development process.
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9. I Think :
In such a world,
what would it mean to "play games"?
what would it mean to "develop games"?
I want to find the answer.
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10. Appendix : Complex branching narratives
When we talk about the evolution and
sophistication of visual novels, it is
almost inevitable that we will talk about
Kanno, and his work YU-NO.
YU-NO : A girl who chants love at the bound of this world
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/YU-NO:_A_girl_who_chants_love_at_the_bound_of_this_world
Hiroyuki Kanno (1968-2011)
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11. Appendix : Complex branching narratives
I believe I have to respect his craft, and
I hope to reproduce his the finesse, with
the support of model checking.
I have developed a visual novel game
engine capable of model checking.
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