Microsoft (academic) and Channel 4 (education) have merged wallets to produce X48: a 48-hour XNA code-a-thon challenge to UK videogame students & indies.
On Friday 20th March 2009, videogame design and development students from all over the UK will relocate to the University of Derby’s cutting edge Computer Games Lab for the first XNA GameCamp.
Produced by Pixel-Lab for Microsoft and Channel 4, X48 will see which games the next generation of industry talent can create in less than 48 hours. Using Microsoft’s XNA Game Studio 3.0 the teams will build game prototypes on a theme to be unveiled during Friday morning’s initiation.
The press release went out 3 days ago, and all but 2 of the 80 seats are taken at time of writing this.
Here are the tweets, and here is the site.
Again with the March thing, I'm out on a plane to GDC that day - which is also day two of the Games Based Learning Conference, so I miss both (grr). Still, as these things go, I'm expecting everyone who turns up to have plenty of FUN, and if the Global Game Jam can produce playable games, well...
I could have taken part but I didn't step up, plus got lots of things going on then like yourself, I'm sure I'll regret it, taking part in the Global Game Jam was real fun and I'd imagine this would be similar, at least I've managed to take part in one of the two :)
Posted by: Catherine | February 26, 2009 at 13:25
Aw CATMOO, you shoulda!!
Posted by: Alice | February 26, 2009 at 13:39