NASSCOM BYOG 2011

Warning: Sprint in Progress

Indie GameDev India partners with NASSCOM Gaming & Animation Forum to organise the first national BYOG in India. The BYOG is now taking place at the NASSCOM Game Developer Conference 2011.

What is BYOG?

Build Your Own Game (BYOG) is a development sprint in which game developers get together, team up and make games. This is the 4th BYOG since July 2010. A BYOG usually stretches over a period of 48hrs in which teams do focussed game development sprints and is very useful in creating prototypes and/or proof of concepts to showcase and pitch game ideas.

The NASSCOM Gaming & Animation Forum is committed to the nurturing of the game development initiatives in India and annually organises a game developer conference as one of its many initiatives to achieve this objective. The 3rd edition of the NASSCOM Game Developer Conference is scheduled for November 11-12, 2011 at Pune. The conference also serves as the venue for the BYOG.

Why Participate?

There are a number of reasons why you should participate in the BYOG:

• create a working prototype/proof of concept of your game in a focussed sprint, in limited time
• get judged by an awesome jury and get real constructive feedback
• push your game development skills and level up
• team up with other awesome developers
• showcase your skills
• earn exciting prizes, if you do manage to complete your project
• participate at the game developer conference

When & Where?

The BYOG is taking place at the NASSCOM Game Developer Conference 2011 in Pune.

Dates: November 11-12, 2011
Venue: Hyatt Regency, Weikfield IT Park, Nagar Road, Pune, India 411014

Participation will also be open remotely, over the internet. Please follow the prescribed schedule.

Theme

The Final Themes are: Lasers, Physics, and Society. Pick one and Build Your Own Game.

How to Participate?

• Login to your user account at InGDIn (this website) and register at this BYOG. You can also see a list of other participants at the BYOG.
• Follow the prescribed schedule

Schedule?

Day 1 – November 11, 2011

• 1100: Announcement of Themes
• 1200: Register game projects on InGD.In
• 1400: Publish 1st blog update about the game project on ingd.in/blog
• 1800: Publish 2nd blog update about the game project with at least 1 screenshot on http://ingd.in/blog
• 2200: Publish 3rd blog update about the game project on ingd.in/blog

Day 2 – November 12, 2011

• 0800: Publish nightly blog update about the game project on ingd.in/blog about what was achieved in the night
• 1300: Publish 4th blog update about the game project with at least 3 new screenshots on http://ingd.in/blog
• 1600: Finish the game and upload it somewhere online publicly (like dropbox/sendspace) and update game with download link; get ready for jury presentation (remote participants will do a presentation over skype)
• 1730: Announcement of Critic’s choice winner

Jury

The jury memebers are...

• Rahul Razdan
• Ian Livingstone
• Hrishi Oberoi
• Sumit Mehra
• Anando Mukherjee

Prizes?

Ibibo will provide the Critic's Choice award winner to publish the completed game on their Open platform alongwith a development device at the conference.

Hashtags and more

Use the following hashtags when you are tweeting from the event or about it - #ngdc #byog

You can also follow the following twitter accounts to know what's going on at the BYOG - @ingdin @nasscomgdc

Contact

Yadu: +919350620961

Kinshuk: +919910024895