No More Sweden

Go over to the summary page to see it.

Kaplan has another accomodation suggestion for those of you who feel that planning is for pussies:

http://xenia.se/ (and on Google map)

Seems very nice too and only slightly more costly.

In the menu to the right you can now find a summary page for No More Sweden 2010. Take a look there if you’re interested in a preview of the presentations that will be held during the event.

I should also point out that we have a Facebook event and community page for those of you who are Facebook-connected.

Ooops… it seems like we’ve forgotten to say exactly where in Skövde the event will be, sorry about that! For those who attended the first NMS — we will not be in the same place!

We’re going to hang out at the business incubator Gothia Science Park that is located next to the university (and very close to the train station).

Click here for walking directions on Google maps

The building looks like this:

Just enter through the front door and you will find us directly to the right on the bottom floor!

Call this number if you get lost: +46 (0)73 75 66 716

Today’s your last chance to sign up for No More Sweden 2010!

Make sure you send an email to signup@nomoresweden.se if you want to come. If you by any chance still is undecided, please take note that we’ve scheduled over 15 presentations of unreleased indie games, prototypes and game theory discussions. Not to mention that we’ll be game jamming and creating even more indie game projects!

PS. If you also want to hold a presentation, please contact erik.svedang@gmail.com as soon as possible.

Come tomorrow it’s only a week until the start of the glorious NMS2010 with more than twenty people signed up already we’re slowly approaching the attendance of last year, but there’s plenty of room for more.

If you haven’t signed up already, make sure you do before Friday (July 2nd). That’ll be our cutoff date. The instructions are in this post.

Stay tuned to this very blog the coming days for more updates about the event. And as always, if you have any questions, post them in the comments!

All claims that this post first had a weird date are untrue. I deny any and all accusations.

Daniel Kaplan, who has organized the avenue in Skövde for us, has also been able to find four switches with 8 jacks in each. However, it’s still worth stating the obvious: remember to bring network cables! (The longer the better.)

Hey!

I’ve been put in charge of organizing the jam this year, so I wanted to point out that format will be almost the same as the previous two years, with only some minor modifications. Like last year, the jam will begin on day one (thursday) and end on day three (saturday) with voting and game presentations. Also like last year, each game will be evaluated in 7 different categories, and should incorporate two to three randomly selected keywords. The categories will be announced when the jam begins (one of these is “Best Experience”, as usual), and the keywords are handed in by the participants before.

The difference, however, is that in addition to receiving 3 randomly selected words, you will also be allowed to use one of your own words as a replacement. Hopefully this will limit the effect of “silly” words that people complained about last year. I still think that the word constrait is a fun excercise that creates a lot of weird and interesting game concepts.

If you feel that you rather work on a bigger and more polished game than a 40-hour jam, I strongly encourage you to send a message to Erik on erik.svedang@gmail.com and present your game for everyone!

UPDATE

Erik wanted more time (and less interference) with the presentations, so we’ve adjusted the jam schedule a little.

Instead of beginning thursday evening, we’ll begin thursday afternoon (around 14 or so) and run the jam until friday evening (around 18 or so). Then we’ll use saturday (from 10 to 16 or so) to playtest and vote for all games. This still leaves a fair amount of time to make a game, while allowing people to relax and listen to all presentations friday and saturday nights.

Hey!

I’ll just write a really quick update on the NMS10 status:

• The event will take place July 8 – 11
• We will be in Skövde, Sweden (Google Maps)

More details will follow when we have decided on the schedule etc. As Erik wrote earlier, we will focus more on sharing ideas this time around, but we will still have a game jam as usual. If you want to hold a presentation please contact Erik on erik.svedang@gmail.com.

Update:

If you know for sure that you are coming, please sign up by sending a message to signup@nomoresweden.se.Please include the following:

• Your real name
• Your artist name / internet nick
• Phone number
• Country
• Website / information about yourself
• When you will arrive, if you already know that

One of the reasons why we chose 8-11 instead of 1-4 was because a local hostel had a lot more spare beds that weekend. You can read more about the hostel here: http://www.skovdevandrarhem.se (in Swedish, though).

Hello!

Another awesome No More Sweden is in the works, hopefully we can soon secure a location. The preliminary dates for this year’s event is July, 1-4th or 8-11th. If you’ve got a big problem with attending any of those weekends, comment below so that we can see how many people want to change it to some other time. The thinking behind the dates is that it’s late enough for people to actually have started their vacation but still far enough from the BIGjam in August. For general questions about the event, use this e-mail: info@nomoresweden.se

The big upgrade this year’s NMS is that we will try to focus more on learning from each other and show off our work. Everyone who is interested in giving a talk should send an e-mail to erik.svedang@gmail.com with a short description off what they’d want to do and how much time they’ll need. Hopefully this can become a great opportunity to get to know more about what everybody is up to; a kind of mini-GDC (but more fun!)

Examples of what YOU could do:

• Show prototypes, experiments, unreleased stuff etc. Finished or unfinished, it doesn’t matter.
• Show a finished game you’ve made and explain your thinking behind it
• Review/show anything that you find inspiring
• Talk about game design, art, sound, programming, whatever (maybe you have given a talk somewhere else that you can use again?)
• Give a tutorial or “tips & trix”-session for some program that you like (Gamemaker, Unity, Flash, Photoshop, etc)
• Rant about something that pisses you off
• Panel discussion (suggest other panel members) about a subject matter close to your heart
• Share an experience of being an indie game developer
• Anything else you can come up with

So please, think of a something you would want to do and help us make this a reality!!!

Also, for those who worry: there will still be a competition (Jens is going to be in charge of that) but it’s going to take less time and be a little less serious than last year.

Hope to see you at this year’s No More Sweden!