You: “Man, I’m so sick of having to travel to Dublin for Gamecrafts – if only they’d run one in Galway!”
Us: “Yeah, okay. We can do that.”
You: ”…Wait, what?”

You heard right my West coast lovelies. Gamecraft has been happening all over the world and now in association with Insight, we’re coming to your virescent spring-time neck of the woods to lather you in a bath of frantic game development!

What the what!

Gamecraft is a game jam, which means you and yours have a ludicrously short amount of time to turn an idea into a computer game (and you’ll have even less thyme). In this case you’ll get 10 hours to make your digital opus. It’s a great way to meet new folk, have some fun and most importantly make more games!

Great! Where? When?

Insight at NUIG in Galway, on May 10th from 9am to 9pm, which includes playing one anothers’ games and followed by a few sociables in a nearby pub (to be super-determined).

You can even visit the computer museum while you take a break.

Where: Insight at NUIG in Galway (map)
When: May 10th from 8.30am to 9pm

What else do we need to know?

08:30 – 08:50 Registration
08:50 – 09:00 Introductions, the theme is announced & GameCraft starts
13:00 LUNCH
19:00 GameCraft ends; pizza time, let’s play games. Judging starts.
21:00 GameCraft ENDS

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A few things:

• you bring the gear and software you need (including extension cords!).
• we’ll provide food, power and internet, but bring (healthy!) snacks.
• you have to be 18+ to attend.
• in the spirit of GameCraft being a community event, we won’t be allowing solo entries this year, join a team (or we will help you to form one) on the day.

About

Insight at NUI Galway

The vision of the Insight Centre for Data Analytics is to create a healthier,safer, more productive world by empowering a data-driven society to enablebetter decisions by individuals, communities, businesses and governments. The centre opened on July 1st 2013 and has received funding in excess of €72 million from Science Foundation Ireland (SFI) and industry for research programmes that involves over 300 researchers and more than 150 industry partners. Insight is a joint initiative between University College Dublin, the National University of Ireland at Galway, University College Cork and Dublin City University.

Having firmly established itself as a leader in creative media education in Ireland, Pulse College arrived in Galway in 2013 and is currently offering courses in Games development, with further courses to be offered in 2014.

091Labs

091 Labs is a collaborative community space, also known as a “Makerspace” or “Hackerspace”, based in Galway City, Ireland.

Computer and Communications Museum of Ireland

Located at DERI at NUI Galway, this collaboration with eGalway tells the fascinating story of key moments in the history of communications. Yet it is designed to be more than just a tribute to the past and a collection of historical artifacts. For it has a central tenet of inspiring today’s youth to consider science and engineering careers by highlighting the importance of ‘innovation’ to human progress and the crucial but oftentimes overlooked contributions of young people and of Ireland to advances in global communications technologies.

Galway Game Jam is a regular event that aspires to encourage interaction, collaboration and creativity for those interested in games development in Galway.