1. BBQ Game Jam'13
the rules

2. Thanks to our partners

3. BBQ Game Jam
● Mini-games creation 9:40-19:00
● Living lab : 19:00-22:00
● Game testing : 19:00-20:00
● Lunch: 12:00
● BBQ!!!: 19:00

4. Keynotes
E4S
Technoport
Best wishes from Gulti
Rod McCall
Jimmy Fischer

5. Your mini-games
● max 10 seconds
● 800x480
● only mouse inputs
○ no keyboard
● keep it simple!
○ no title screen, loading bar, …
● tell players what to do
○ "Escape!", "Jump!", ...inspiration: http://bdaybash.aetherarcade.com/rules

6. The Theme
Schrödinger’s Cat!

7. Graphical resources
Feel free to use them.
http://bbq.extra-coin.fr/mini-
graphical-kit.zip

8. Mini-games aggregation: CoinWare
http://bbq.extra-coin.fr/coinware.zip
● technologies supported
○ HTML5, JS
○ Flash
○ Unity
○ Construct2
● Experimental, so optional!

9. Mini-games aggregation: CoinWare
http://bbq.extra-coin.fr/coinware.zip
● yourMiniGame
○ index.html
○ manifest.json
○ thumbnail.jpg

10. CoinWare manifest
{
"id": "YourMiniGame",
"name": "My Mini-Game",
"description": "My elevator pitch goes here",
"teamName": "MyTeam",
"credits": [{
"name": "Bob",
"job": "Graphism",
"url": "http://your-homepage-here.org"
}, {
"name": "Paul",
"job": "Code",
"url": "http://your-homepage-here.org"
}]
}

11. CoinWare Game API
● function gameLoad(game) {}
● game.ready()
● game.onStart(function(params) {})
● game.end(hasWon,score)

12. CoinWare Game API
function gameLoad(gameMgr) {
// configure your game
gameMgr.onStart(function(params) {
console.log('difficulty '+params.difficulty);
// start game loop here
});
$('#button1').click(function() {
gameMgr.end(false, 1);
return false;
});
// load your assets here
gameMgr.ready();
};

13. Game testing
● 19:00-20:00
● 10 games will be tested
● Evalyzer: automated user testing
platform
● Users should not play with your
games before the test