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A Whirlwind of Game Design

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the mad-phat-design-skillz dept.

conq writes "BusinessWeek has a feature on the videogames design students were able to create in 24 hours. From conception to completion. The games are quite basic but it is fascinating what they are able to come up with in so little time. From the article: 'The teams' challenge was to collectively create a mobile-game masterpiece using a "mystery ingredient" -- random verbs and nouns -- to guide design.'"

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  1. Sounds familar by Mortlath · · Score: 4, Informative
    This sounds a lot like the Allegro SpeedHack Competition.

    The annual SpeedHack competition has been around for six years already. The only difference is 3 days vs. only 1 day.

  2. Hey, sounds like some Uwe Boll would do by Rifter13 · · Score: 3, Funny

    This sounds a lot olike Uwe Boll's way of making game-based movies. I bet these teams could seal some pretty lucrative deals with Uwe, to give him access to their IP!

  3. A whirlwind link to the actual article by rabiddeity · · Score: 5, Informative

    The original link is to the images and captions. Here's a link to the actual article.

    http://www.businessweek.com/innovate/content/mar20 06/id20060317_074043.htm