The Photos
Photos are going up on the Pixel-Lab Flickr account. Here’s a slideshow of the X48 2010 set:
Feel free to use them for whatever use you may find useful.
Friday, February 19th, 2010Archive for February, 2010
The Welcome
Before the coding kicks off there were talks. Not too many talks, mind. Here there are (apologies for the poor sound in places).
First our host Peter Rayson from Birmingham City University welcomed everyone:
followed the obligatory health and safety stuff which I didn’t record but it was actually rather amusing. Then we had Jason Hall from Screen West Midlands who talked about Game Central the regional games network for the West Midlands.
Next Toby Barnes from PixelLab revealed the theme for the GameCamp to be Discovery.
And finally Andy Sithers from Microsoft talked about the Imagine Cup.
And then the game coding began!
Friday, February 19th, 2010X48 @ BCU: What Happens & When
Here’s a little taster of what will be happening during the event that kicks off tomorrow at Birmingham City University’s Millenium Point Campus…
FRIDAY
11:00 – Registration
11:30 – Introductory Talks and revealing of THEME in Room 244!
12:30 – Grab yourself a sandwich and a drink
13:00 – GO!!!
20:00 – Pizza Pizza Pizza Pizza Pizza Pizza
Sleep? Who needs sleep? (Disclaimer: if you do need to sleep, there are rest rooms labelled near to the coding area)
SATURDAY
08:30 – Breakfast (in the café behind the GRUB N’ GAMES room)
12:00 – Lunch
15:00 – STOP!!! Everything must be handed in by now, with everything packaged up as instructed)
15:10 – Present your games to the other teams while the judges make up their minds…
16:00 – Prizes awarded
16:30 – Homeward bound! Eat. Sleep. Don’t code games for a day or two. See you next year?
One Week To Go
T-shirts are being made, posters are being printed, banners are getting ready to be hung. Pizzas are ordered, fry-ups are approved, and soon we’ll make the first Energy Drink Run. We’ve already booked the van for that 
We’ve also rounded up the now infamous X48 GIANT BEANBAGS that you may have seen starring in one of FailBlog’s most viewed videos.
So we’re just about all set for X48:Birmingham at Birmingham City University’s city centre campus at Millenium Point. It all kicks off at 11ish when we’ll be set up to register all the teams and get them fed and sat at machines.
The theme is also set. In a moment I’ll be writing it on a piece of paper, putting the piece of paper in a gold envelope, and putting the gold envelope in a safe in a secret location until a week today. Until then…
Friday, February 12th, 2010
