For those of you that don’t know, I went to TIGJam Winnipeg last weekend. I’ve never actually been to one of these before, and previous to this time I had never really met any other indie game makers in my life, so this was an awesome experience. I had a lot of fun (I think everybody did), and some really awesome games were put together in the 48 hours that it lasted.

So, on Friday afternoon I went over to the Fortune Cat Studio (where the TIGJam was being held) and set up a computer to use. I hadn’t met anybody else there, so I didn’t really interact much right away. I’m a bit of a shy guy (haha…).  So, right off the bat I didn’t really know what to do, so I opened up Flash Develop and started making a generic platform game. More people started to arrive throughout the night, and I started running around talking to everyone, meeting people who I have been hoping to meet for a long time (Alec Holowka, Adam Saltsman, Chevy Ray, Kyle Pulver, etc).

In total, there were like 25 people there.

So, Saturday I opened up my game project and decided that it would be cool to add something more to the game than just walking around. I thought that maybe shooting blocks would be a fun idea, so I added it in.. and that’s where my game pretty much started from. But, enough about my game… Everyone at the Jam was kind of working on their own projects, while people would run around giving suggestions, bug testing, talking, going to by food at the local restaurant, etc. Chevy Ray helped out a lot with my little platform game (as it was made it Flash Punk) and I even got some backgrounds made for the game by Jordan Duchnycz which was pretty cool.

Day two was pretty much the same, except at the end we had like a presentation of all our projects, which you can view >> here! << My project was up to go first, but I ran into some technical difficulties, so you can actually see it in action at about 25:00 (maybe a bit later).

And you can see pictures of the event here!

and here’s a random picture of me (like the only good one)