the students of ETIC_Algarve and their counterpart in Lisbon, as well as those who want to join them, will spend around 48 hours creating video games, in what will be the first Game Jam of this school. The event will take place from the 9th to the 11th of June at the premises of the Algarve's School of Image and Communication Technology, at Mercado de Faro, and is associated with a solidary aspect, which will revert in favor of AAPACDM (Algarvian Association of Parents and Friends of Mentally Diminished Children).
This event, which will be promoted in partnership with ETIC Lisbon, challenges «to develop a video game in a very short period of time». "In less than 48 hours, the participants of the ETIC GAME JAM will get together in small teams to create games", which, in some cases, it is expected that they may eventually be marketed, as explained by the organizer of the event, in other similar initiatives, «prototypes emerged that later became titles launched in the market», namely the SuperHot, Broforce, Evoland or Portuguese Strikers Edge games.
While programming, students from the Algarve and Lisbon ETICs, as well as 'possible external stakeholders', will help an Algarvean institution. Everyone who joins this video game production marathon is invited to contribute with food and logistical goods – milk, canned goods, cereals, basic hygiene material or the like.
Registration is free and open to all interested parties, but mandatory, can be done online. More information about this initiative can be obtained from the ETIC_Algarve website.
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