Pikku Kakkonen Game Jam

I did mention in my post about Mobile games for children that I'd be attending Pikku Kakkonen Game Jam. That took place last weekend and it was really cool. This will be a small coverage of what took place there and what we got done.

I'll just start this post with the video (made by me) about the game my team created.

Our main concepts for the game came from children who sent their ideas to YLE. There were a lot of different kinds of characters made by 3-7 year old. After we took out 2 of our favorite ideas, we then proceeded to form teams and refine them further.

The second day we started working. Our team consisted of 4 artists, 2 coders and a music guy. The core idea for the game was to create a driving game where the player can see and interact with various characters created from the concept pictures.
We managed to split the workload well with our team (I did 3D model for the car and 2 characters).
After the day was done, we already had a working demo that was only missing the finalized assets.

On the third day we started to wrap up the project. Pieces started coming together fast and the final game was done well before the deadline. Later that day we had a bunch (around 20) kids visiting the studio and getting a chance to test our games.

It was really cool to see the reactions and different approaches they had to our games. We were not allowed to say anything about the game so it was interesting to see what approach they took. I think everyone who played our game really enjoyed it.

The cool guys at YLE even gave us some rewards (stickers and patch).