Olatutalka's Festival Hackathon!!!
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@ipuntom and
@gravstar only had 4 hours of sleep...
Pink elephants can tell!![/caption]
During the last weekend, Santa Clara Games with PintxoDeveloper Videogame Association co-hosted the "Hackathon!!!" gamejam event as part of the Olatutalka 2014 Festival in Donostia-San Sebastián (Basque Country).
The "Hackathon!!!" is an event in which participants, known as 'jammers', accept the challenge to develop a videogame around a common theme having just 48 hours. This year the theme was the Donostia-San Sebastián's Flag.
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@gravstar introducing the
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During the "Hackathon!!!" event several activities were performed in parallel. The main purpose was to spread the videogames culture around the city. On Saturday we screened "Indie Game: The Movie" documentary for free, and ran a Hama Beads Workshop on Sunday for the kids.
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Saturday morning, jammers at work. Crunch time came later...[/caption]
The Hama Beads Workshop was mainly focused on kids. We teached them how to make their favourite videogames figurines characters. It was a huge success! Even parents liked to participate building their owns :)
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Kids (and parents!) during the Hama Beads Workshop. A lovely image
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Santa Clara Games team managed to make a game too. We hit our limit of non-sleep-hours (44 for @ipuntom, 46 for @gravstar... nice record, but don't try it at home kids, it's not healthy) and managed to accomplish the challenge. The result was the videogame known as "RETURN TO CASTLE URGULL".
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Return to Castle Urgull main title. Evil General Croissant is waiting
for you![/caption]
The feedback received from jammers and from who attended during the final day showcase, gives us strenght to polish, improve and finish the game so, STAY TUNNED FOR MORE!!
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More news about R2CU are about to come ;)[/caption]