This Game Jam happened during Covid-19 lockdowns, so it was online and over Discord. We had Jupiter Hadley a games journalist and co-founder of Big Boss Battle UK and IndieGameJams.com who played the games and gave some advice to jammers on how to approach game journalists and we had John Hudgins Project Art Director from ZeniMax Online Studios to tell us about the process central to making games and art as well as regale us of tails of working with legendary game designer Sid Meier. You can watch the highlights here. We were all apart, but the chaos and the vibes remained!
The Malta Global Game Jam 2020 had Kari Koivistoinen, Senior Producer at Machinegames who had just shipped Wolfenstein: Youngblood. He also joined the expert panel with Anvil Games's Julian and Andrew Farrugia, and Prof. Antonios Liapis.
In 2019 Tomasz Kisilewicz who was Lead Artist on 'This War of Mine' by 11bit Studios spoke to our jammers about Creating Meaningful Entertainment, exploring how art and design come together to question your morality.
He also joined the expert panel with David Mariner of Karmify and Prof. Antonios Liapis.
In 2017 the theme was waves! As usual it was a blast! In 2017 we announced the winners of the Arts Council Malta Digital Games Fund at the end of the Game Jam. We had Kate Redesiuk - then Art Director at CD ProjektRed, Dimme van der Hout Founder of Monkeybizniz, and Alexis Kennedy of Failbetter Games imparting their wisdom and celebrating games.
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