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0.0 hrs last two weeks / 17.6 hrs on record (3.9 hrs at review time)
Posted: Jul 10, 2014 @ 11:10pm

As a game developer who has been making games since the 90's independently and in the industry, these series (actually this only episode for now) of game jam episodes are good, not Bad, not great, but good. It does reflect how it is a game jam away from an event, a game jam at the privacy of someone's house, I have done game jams like this and the process was very similar.

On the first (and only episode for now) you can see how they start talking about the idea of the game regarding a given theme, and how from that both try to fit themselves in the same page to make the game. Then it gets boring in some bits, but interesting in others, you just see how it is. If you are looking for the technical aspect of the development, well it doesn't go in depth, it is superfical, but like Indie Game: The Movie, its like a PG way to display the development without scaring way the general audience. Actually if you like Indie Game: The Movie you will like Super Game Jam because it has the same style, same music direction, camera, motion graphics, to the point that it could be a sequel or continuation of some sort.

Now this was only one episode and there is more of them on the way, which can be more in depth or show more variety, but the problem is, they are not available yet. The application says the second one will be available June, but we are in July, then in the game page says the episode will be available early July, but now we are close to mid of the month.

I bet its a hard process to edit 48 hours into a one 30 minute episode, and try to make it interesting, because to be honest, on a game jam you are mostly crunching and it could be a little distracting stopping to talk about the project in hand.

If you like watching other people work, specially people that you admire their games, and you want to see how they interact with other developers and how they deal with fast development, yeah its an interesting watch for any aspiring game developer (but if you are a seasoned developer you might cringe about the approaches taken).

This review is based on the presentation of the application and the available episode. Hopefully, anytime now, the second one will be avaialble and so on. The third one should be available by the end of the month, lets hope they keep the schedule, unless something does wrong with the production like it happens with every unfinished project.
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