{"id":2986,"date":"2022-03-09T15:10:08","date_gmt":"2022-03-09T15:10:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.doc.gold.ac.uk\/blog\/?p=2986"},"modified":"2022-03-16T15:16:29","modified_gmt":"2022-03-16T15:16:29","slug":"goldsmiths-students-organise-the-global-games-jam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.doc.gold.ac.uk\/blog\/?p=2986","title":{"rendered":"GOLDSMITHS&#8217; STUDENTS ORGANISE THE GLOBAL GAMES JAM"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" src=\"http:\/\/www.doc.gold.ac.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/DSC01119-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2993\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.doc.gold.ac.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/DSC01119-1024x576.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/www.doc.gold.ac.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/DSC01119-300x169.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.doc.gold.ac.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/DSC01119-768x432.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.doc.gold.ac.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/DSC01119.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Hacksmiths is the tech society at Goldsmiths, University of London that partook in the Global Games Jam. The Global Games Jam is the world&#8217;s largest game jam event that brings together thousands of people for a weekend of collaboration and creativity. Each year the Global Games Jam have a set theme and this year&#8217;s theme was duality. Students had 48 hours to create games either individually or in pairs on this topic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We interviewed Omar Tahir, the lead organiser of the event for more information about the event. The full interview can be found below.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-video\"><video controls src=\"https:\/\/www.doc.gold.ac.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/Re_-Global-Game-Jam-x-Computing-Interview-20220223_140600-Meeting-Recording-1-1.mp4\"><\/video><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The Hacksmiths team worked hard on making sure the event was safe, accessible and welcoming to all abilities. The society encourages students to join their <a href=\"https:\/\/discord.com\/invite\/9ysN82UUpK\">discord<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/hacksmiths\/\">follow their socials<\/a> for more information about upcoming events.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" src=\"http:\/\/www.doc.gold.ac.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/DSC01030-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2988\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.doc.gold.ac.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/DSC01030-1024x576.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/www.doc.gold.ac.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/DSC01030-300x169.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.doc.gold.ac.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/DSC01030-768x432.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.doc.gold.ac.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/DSC01030.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hacksmiths is the tech society at Goldsmiths, University of London that partook in the Global Games Jam. The Global Games Jam is the world&#8217;s largest game jam event that brings together thousands of people for a weekend of collaboration and creativity. Each year the Global Games Jam have a set theme and this year&#8217;s theme &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.doc.gold.ac.uk\/blog\/?p=2986\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">GOLDSMITHS&#8217; STUDENTS ORGANISE THE GLOBAL GAMES JAM<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2993,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":""},"categories":[108],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/www.doc.gold.ac.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/DSC01119.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.doc.gold.ac.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2986"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.doc.gold.ac.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.doc.gold.ac.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.doc.gold.ac.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.doc.gold.ac.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2986"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.doc.gold.ac.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2986\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3003,"href":"http:\/\/www.doc.gold.ac.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2986\/revisions\/3003"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.doc.gold.ac.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2993"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.doc.gold.ac.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2986"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.doc.gold.ac.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2986"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.doc.gold.ac.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2986"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}