Show of the Week: Fortnite and 5 Big Games That Started Life in a Game Jam
5,281Fortnite is a co-op survival shooter in which you build and fortify a base against monsters that are attacking said base. The idea originally sprung up from a game jam, as is often the case with ingenious game ideas, as we discover later in the show. Subscribe for this show weekly! http://www.tinyurl.com/SubToOxbox
A game jam is an organised event where game developers have a certain amount of time to let their imaginations run wild and develop a game concept from scratch, just to flex those creative muscles.
Occasionally, though, those ideas turn out to be too brilliant, and more importantly too potentially lucrative, to just leave on a hard drive somewhere. So they get developed further into actual games that you can buy, so we get to play them, and everyone wins.
Games such as Goat Simulator, which started life as a joke during an internal game jam by developer Coffee Stain Studios, after they released their very serious sci fi first person tower defence shooter Sanctum 2.
Clearly, these devs needed a break, because if you had to come up with an exact opposite of a serious sci fi tower defence game, it would be Goat Simulator, a game in which you play a goat who runs around destroying stuff.
Similarly, Surgeon Simulator was what a team of four developers from Bossa Studios came up with for Global Game Jam 2013, a worldwide event that encourages people to design a game within a time limit of 48 hours.
Nowadays you can play Surgeon Simulator on PC, mobile and even in virtual reality, which is why it’s hard to believe this tiny team came up with a playable prototype based on performing a heart transplant over the course of just a single weekend. Way quicker than six years of medical school.
Fortnite is available now for Xbox One, PS4 and PC as a paid-for early access title, with a free-to-play release scheduled for 2018.
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