Raritan Valley Community College Global Game Jam participants created games that can be downloaded.
BRANCHBURG - Raritan Valley Community College's Computer Science Department and Game Creation Club recently hosted a location for the annual Global Game Jam, a worldwide festival of creativity, art and technology.
The goal of the Global Game Jam is for participants to produce tabletop and video games around a common theme across all participating sites -- in just 48 hours.
The 59 jammers at RVCC included members of the college's Computer Science Department and Game Creation Club, other Raritan Valley students and alumni, students and alumni from Rutgers University and local high-tech and game development professionals, according to a press release.
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In total, the group at RVCC's Branchburg Campus created 20 games inspired by this year's theme, the word "Ritual."
Worldwide, the event drew more than 36,000 people at 636 sites in 93 countries. The largest site was in Egypt with over 2,500 participants. More than 6,800 games were made during the total Jam period. All games are available to download at no cost at www.globalgamejam.org. Games created at RVCC's site can also be found online.
The Global Game Jam will return to Raritan Valley Community College from Jan. 20-22, 2017.
Raritan Valley Community College's main campus is located at 118 Lamington Road in Branchburg and serves residents of Somerset and Hunterdon counties.