Wild Pockets and Crispy Gamer Present - The Bay Area Game Jam

People's Choice Award

On April 4-5th we held the First Annual Bay Area Game Jam in San Francisco. Our judges chose their favorite games but now we want to see what the world thinks. We’re giving everyone the chance to play and rate each game to determine to People’s Choice Award winner.

Visit our Peoples Choice Award Voting page to play the games and vote for your favorites. You can play the games as often as you’d like but you can only rate each game one time. Voting ends at 9am, PST on Tuesday, May 26th. Winners will be announced later that week.

In order to play the games you will need to install the tiny Wild Pockets 3D Plug-in. You can learn more about the plug-in here.

If you'd like to create your own games, sign up and get started!

2009 Game Jam Winners

The Grand Prize winner was Lava Ball by Daniel Bryner, Bradley Johnson and Chris Webb		Second place went to Aaron lo, Soo Jeong Bae, Heegun Lee, Ivan Ortega, Hua-Wei Sung for their game Save the Boy		Anthony Abrams and Shannon Abrams took home Third place for Bumper Bash

See all the finished submitted games from the Bay Area Game Jam in the Games Section!

All the Game Jam Press and News Here 

Event Video

Opening and Closing Presentations

These are 5 minute previews, Click "Watch the Full Video" on the top left of the videos to see the full length versions. 

Game Jam Concerts

These are 5 minute previews, Click "Watch the Full Video" on the top left of the videos to see the full length versions.

Bay Area Game Jam Recap

On April 4th and 5th, Wild Pockets hosted the Bay Area Game Jam, sponsored by Microsoft, Crispy Gamer, and Super Rewards.

Teams were given 24 hours to create a single level or prototype game using Wild Pockets, the newest 3D game engine. The teams were competing for a grand prize of $2,500 and distribution on Crispy Gamer’s BYOG site. Over 80 developers participated in a weekend of fun, competition, creativity and very little sleep!

The event kicked off with two keynote speakers that included Andrew Sheppard from Hi5 and Marc LeBlanc from Mind Control Software, who set the stage for success and innovation in 24 hours. Following the kick-off participants were given a one hour tutorial, and for many attendees this was their first glimpse into the new platform.

The event was a tremendous success with fantastic facilities and food provided by Microsoft throughout the event. The participants worked in teams of 1 to 6 people, and had access to the Wild Pockets engineering team for support and questions throughout the event. The event wasn’t all work; there were plenty of opportunities to take a break and network. Participants could play Halo, Scene It or Lips on Xbox 360’s in the Microsoft Home Lounge. They could also enjoy a special concert featuring The Megas and The OneUps who play variations of video game music and themes.

At 12:30pm sharp on Sunday afternoon, 21 final games were submitted for judging. The games were reviewed by an esteemed panel of judges, including Anne-Marie Roussel of Microsoft, Robert Ashley of Crispy Gamer and A Life Well Wasted, Jesse Manuel of Super Rewards, Jameson Hsu of Mochi Media, Andrew Sheppard of Hi5, Alan Yu of ngmoco and Lars Butler of Trion Worlds. Through a thorough process of rating and reviews, the winners were selected:

1st place
Lava Ball by Daniel Bryner, Bradley Johnson and Chris Webb

2st place
Save the Boy by Aaron lo, Soo Jeong Bae, Heegun Lee, Ivan Ortega, Hua-Wei Sung

2st place
Bumper Bash by Anthony Abrams and Shannon Abrams

You can see photos from the event on our Flickr page.

Event Photos

About Wild Pockets

Wild Pockets is currently in open beta, and gives indie and casual game developers a powerful platform to create Web-based games for free. Using Wild Pockets browser-based tools, developers can create elaborate games, interactive training, and 3-D advertising, which can then be posted easily on just about any Web site by using an embed tag similar to YouTube videos.