Create a game in 48hrs for Global Game Jam

  We’re excited to announce we will be hosting a Global Game Jam event at the University of Lincoln THIS WEEKEND 29-31 January. In the Co-Op Lecture theatre we will hold a massive 48-hour event where game designers of all levels come together and pit their development skills against the world for prizes and of course, fun!…

Huge success of Global Game Jam

Lincoln’s School of Computer Science was again an official site of the Global Game Jam (GGJ). More than 50 jammers joined from all over the UK in what is becoming one of the School’s most enjoyable events. The GGJ is the world’s biggest hackathon focused on games development, which this year involved more than 28,000…

Create your own dungeon with new roguelike

Developers from the University of Lincoln, UK, have created a new fantasy roguelike that allows players to generate their own content through Twitter. #Dungeon is a simple dungeon crawler, created from tweeting code tagged as #HashtagDungeon. Roguelike is a sub-genre of role-playing video games, characterized by random level generation, tile-based graphics and permanent death. Likened…