Jump Start Game Jam

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Students from UMass Dartmouth and MassDiGI Collab are excited to offer the Jump Start Game Jam for interested high school students, their parents or teachers on March 20-21. The virtual event is free but preregistration is requested by March 19.===========================Students from <a href="https://www.umassd.edu" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">UMass Dartmouth</a> and the Massachusetts Digital Games Institute (<a href="https://www.massdigi.org" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">MassDiGI</a>) are offering the Jump Start Game Jam to interested high schoolers, parents or teachers starting on Saturday, March 20 at 1pm and running through the next day. The virtual event is free, but preregistration is requested by March 19.A game jam lets participants try their hand at creating a video game — from coding on up. The Jump Start Game Jam has been created with first-time participants in mind,&quot; said Luke Klegraefe &#x27;22 of UMass Dartmouth. &quot;We know that a lot of high school students who have a passion for games are searching for cool, fun things to do and we thought a game jam might hit the spot.&quot;Those who sign up will also get the chance to hear some mini-talks from game industry professionals .&quot;Creating a game is an amazing experience,&quot; said Robby Williams, a MassDiGI Collab student from Becker College. &quot;It opens up a whole new world. Every game jam I&#x27;ve taken part in has always produced some great work.&quot;Additional UMass Dartmouth and MassDiGI Collab students involved are Ryan Wickett, Mike Correia, Haylie Ingels, Mikey Schubert and Dan Denis.For participants, there will be a dedicated communications channel on Discord (click this <a href="https://discord.com/invite/TqzZ4xmee7" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">link</a> to join the server now!) with UMass Dartmouth and MassDiGI Collab student members so that if anyone participating online has questions, wants advice or bumps into any problems they will be able to connect.All who participate will receive an introductory online game jam information “kit.” The &quot;kit&quot; will include some game jam basics, recommendations for free software and some game assets that they might need.The games created during the jam will be posted online on <a href="https://itch.io/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Itch.io</a> for all to play at the conclusion of the event.This virtual event is presented by UMass Dartmouth and MassDiGI.

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