Earlier this month, UW–Madison’s Game Lab, housed in the School of Education’s Department of Curriculum and Instruction, hosted a 2023 Global Game Jam (GGJ) event where participants developed three new video games.
The event, which took place over a 48-hour period, allowed gamers from around the world to compete against each other to create video games based around the same theme.
Following are the three games that were created during UW–Madison’s Global Game Jam event:
Inner Workings: “Inner Workings is a 2D side scrolling adventure platformer where you are an unidentifiable ball of light and have found yourself in a strange cave full of mutant lifeforms. You have no idea how you got here, but the only way out is forward. Solve puzzles and unlock memories in order to reach the end.”
Root Beer Resurrectionist: “Root Beer Resurrectionist is a 2D pixel platformer that begins one dark and thirsty night when you discover your supply of root beer is running dangerously low. Play as a little girl with a big sword and fight your way from crypt to crypt collecting the ingredients you need to salvage your family’s root beer recipe. Each new location gives you the chance to play as mothers from generations past, with new abilities and new challenges at every stage!”
Thorn: “Play as Chuck, a squirrel to defend the ocean from a ferocious plant.”
According to the Daily Cardinal, which covered the event, “The winners of the competition, soon to be announced, get to have their game released for the public to play.”
Read the Daily Cardinal story to learn more, or check out this page on the GGJ’s website to learn more about the three games created at UW–Madison.