Three Thing Game Team Videos

I’ve been round all the teams and done brief videos of how they are getting on:

Awesome Source

Bi Winning

Blank

Bottled Games

Brayshaw’s Bandits

CMYK

E for idiots

Fez Productions

Fresh Pot

Left 4 Dev

Pixel Bomb

So Fear

To Be Confirmed

Troll

Two and a Half Life

I’ve also put captions on the pictures on Flickr..

http://www.flickr.com/search/?q=threethinggame

I’ll do this all again later tonight, and see what progress we’ve made.

Three Thing Game Gets Going

These are the teams at the start of the competition. I’ll do another of everyone at the end…..

Awesome prizes, I think this explains the good turnout.

We’ve launched the game development competition today. We have over 60 students involved.  They are all busily in the development phase of their games at the moment, just a few hours left now…..

If you want to see what they are up to we have a variety of webcam feeds for you to choose from:

http://www.ustream.tv/channel/twenty-four-hour-game-dev

http://www.ustream.tv/channel/24-hour-game-dev

http://www.ustream.tv/channel/fresh-pot

I’m putting regular picture updates on Flickr and there will be videos later when I’ve been round and chatted to all the teams. And everyone is tweeting as well. The tag threethinggame will get you where you want to be.

Competition Starts

The Three Thing Game started today, with each team getting its three things. This is the bottom of a “Thing Pot”.

Here are the teams, with their names and their “Things” (Note that the names are not actually in the order of the members and not all the members are in all the pictures. But hey, they are in colour)

Two and a Half Life:   Codie Collinge,   James Croft,   Grant Lodge,   Tim Roth, Katherine Fielding

Things: Underwater Sea-Badger of Doom  

Troll:   Timothy J Chadwick,   Robert Campbell,   Oliver Moore,   Lawrence Worrell

Things: Werewolf Demons Racing

To Be Confirmed:   Christophe Lionet,   Rob Marshal,   Kristian Fenn

Things: Warrior Koalas on Mars

So Fear:   Roger Pujol-Serra,   Nuno R Pombares Leiria,   Mehul Shukla, Mario Lopez Mompean

  Things: Kitchen Dragon Duel

Pixel Bomb:   Benjamin Stephenson,   Andrew Roscoe,   James Wright,  Joel Parky, Alistair Robinson

Things: Gambling Screwdriver on the run

Left 4 Dev:   Peter Brooksbank,   Craig Holland,   John Dixon,   Matthew Taylor

Things: Sheep Bee Romance

Fresh Pot:   Cameron Wilby,   Jack Thorpe,   Jake Stirling,   Jonathon Niland

Things: Bedroom Steam Explosion

Fez Productions:   Shane Morley,   Miles McGowan,   Thomas McPherson,   Heather MacDougal

Things: Alien Pot Noodle Vengance

E for Idiots:   Allen Anderson,   Michael Clayton,   Alex Bell,   Joe Axon

Things: Cookie Detective Gardening

CMYK:   Karen Fielding,   Nathan Hickling,   Willian Dann,   David Armstrong,   Willian Hunter

Things: Singing Cogs Fencing

Brayshaws Bandits:   Sam Cutler,   Joe Appleyard,   Louis Deane,   Dan Endersley

Things: Medieval Robot Killer

Bottled Games:   Stephen Muir,   Marc Cutsforth,   Simon Johnson,   Leigh Boynton,   Richard Sharp

Things: Vampire Electric TV Show

Blank:   Rory Spencer,   Joe Stead,   Jack Middleton,   Michael Dean

Things: Spanish Kumquat Bike Ride

Bi-Winning:   Denis Craig,   James Taylor,   Josh Twigg,   Joe Wilson

Things: Ninja Chickens Painting

Awesome Source:   Josh Crowther,   Alex Beamer,   Matthew Narey,   George Harnwell

Things: School Cheese Escape

Special Guest team from Hull School of Art and Design – great to see you folks.

gotoAndGame: Matthew Hardiman, Stephen Conlan, Paul Starkey, Arron Foxley, Claire Anthony

Things: Zombie Vegetable on Holiday

Welcome

Three Thing Game is a game development competition being run for students by the University of Hull. It is being managed by Jon Purdy and Rob Miles of the Department of Computer Science in conjunction with Platform Expo. It will run for the week starting 21st March with an initial meeting to pick the “things” and set up the teams on Monday the 21st of March at the University of Hull.  The final will be on Sunday 27th March at the Platform Expo event. The games will be written using XNA for Windows PC, Xbox 360 or Windows Phone 7. Microsoft are sponsoring the event and providing Windows Phone 7 devices as prizes. Every member of the winning team will recieve a brand new Windows Phone 7 device.

If you want to find out what happened last time we did this kind of thing you can take a look here.

Students will work for the week preparing their resources and utilities and then spend 24 hours in the department on the weekend of Platform Expo completing their program and preparing a demonstration video. These will be presented at the expo on Sunday and assessed by our star judges. The winning team will get some Windows Phones to play with. All the teams will get loads of kudos and an amazing experience.

You will need to form teams and sign up for the event, with up to 10 teams taking part. The teams will be made up of 4 developers and a graphic designer for each team. The teams and designers will be introduced at the start of the competition, where each team is also given the three things to base their game around. You can find a sign up sheet in the assets part of the site. Fill it in and return it to Rob Miles in the Computer Science Department.

Each team will pick three “things” from the “thing pots” that we will have available at the launch presentation. If you have ideas for things to put in the pots, please adds them as comments to this post. They can be anything you like, including chicken, nuclear bunker and cheese..

If you have any questions about the event you can send them to questions@threethinggame.com