Santa Clara Games

may 29, 2014

Olatutalka's Festival Hackathon!!!

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Santa Clara
Games @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.

[caption id="attachment_1037" align="aligncenter" width="700"]@gravstar introducing the Hackathon!!! theme in his
keynote @gravstar introducing the "Hackathon!!!" theme during his keynote[/caption]

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.

[caption id="attachment_1038" align="aligncenter" width="700"]Saturday morning, jammers at work. Crunch time came
later... 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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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".

[caption id="attachment_1029" align="aligncenter" width="640"]screenshot1 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!!

[caption id="attachment_1032" align="aligncenter" width="640"]screenshot4 More news about R2CU are about to come ;)[/caption]