Game-jam Articles on TUAW - The Unofficial Apple Weblog

TUAW's Daily App: Star Fighter X2

by Mike Schramm (Sep 1st, 2010)

Star Fighter X2 is a brand new App Store release that actually started development way back at the 360iDev Game Jam that I attended in April. Developer Dan Byers originally began the game as a tank combat title, but with the help of some other programmers and artist Mike Berg of We Heart Games, ...

360iDev: Game Jam creations

by Mike Schramm (Apr 15th, 2010)

Tuesday night at the 360iDev conference in San Jose, around 60 developers gathered in a room on the eBay campus around 8pm as security locked them in for the night (one developer joined the group via Skype -- that's him on the big screen above). Their goal? A game jam. Before 8am the next day, they ...