Projects with creative end goals

We love seeing people engage in our projects

Global Game Jam 2010, first time in Calgary was a great success *Art met Technology*. The connections have just begun. Featured on CBC's Homestrech program and Shaw TV Magazine, and receiving awesome support from the University of Lethbridge, Mount Royal, University of Calgary, SAIT, and community leaders in the gaming industry, Global Game Jam made it to Calgary for the first time. 40 teams of artists and developers made 6 of the 928 games along with 4,310 other jammers in 39 countries across the world as they participated in the now famous 48 hour marathon.

People do amazing things when they connect and get to meet peers who support them. Our goal is to engage the person, and focus on creative results. Most projects and ventures focus on money and commercialization before the results are discovered. We see some great things when freelancers, hobbyists, and even pros work together in a way that talent are combined.

Creative Calgary projects make sure the return always goes back to the particpants and supporters in the project. Our goal is to see connections, opportunities and creative results that exceed expectations.

All revenue from our projects is shared by the project team

Watch the 2010 keynote video

Watch the Global Game Jam Calgary event Mount Royal Video presentation!

Check out the list of Games sumbmitted.

The 2011 Global Game Jam event will be January 28-30, 2011, location TBA. Meanwhile, scroll down to see our next event.

Animation Jam, Calgary

Inspired by Global Game Jam

This event lets people experiment as they animate a story with various constraints.

Create, animate, and share a story at the Calgary Animation Jam. Collaborate with artists, writers, musicians and any number of talented creators with the goal of producing an animated short. Bring your knowledge of drawing, key framing, stop motion, story telling, sound editing, and anything else you have in your bag of tricks to show and share with creative amateurs and professionals. Traditional or avant-garde, digital or analog, we want to show the world what Calgary can create.

Designers, developers, artists, writers and anyone came out to try their hand at creating a story during the Animation Jam. Plenty of collaboration took place through out in the last event. Industry leaders turned out to cheer on teams and test run the results. It was more fun that we could have imagined.

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Creative Calgary

Projects focused on idea completion

People really like to express ideas and be part of something they value. Early in 2010, 40 people came together at SAIT and worked together on things they didn't know they could do. Our "Creative Calgary Experiment" proved creative people exist in Calgary. Two of our games made top six best played flash games in Global Game Jam and a few people went on to new ventures in gaming. Our sponsors were amazing. Shaw TV, Bioware, University of Lethbridge, Mount Royal University, Phoenix New Media, RObots and Pencils, and more along with our team of organizers Dr. Jim Parker, Robb Beggs and me.

We want to do more projects and create a medium for people to be themselves and create cool results. We see the value in working the creative processes through a natural cycle. We believe gems emerge through the passion and intentions behind the innovation.

Our projects are based on creative end goals. We are not limited to gaming, creative industries. We simply focus on a need and go from there. It starts with an idea.

Have an idea for a project or what creative calgary can do? Contact me. My info is at the bottom of this page.

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