Reyal Hoxie Participates in Global Game Jam

2015 Feb 16

Reyal Hoxie, a Biochemistry major in the School of Humanities and Sciences at Ithaca College, participated in the 2015 Global Game Jam, a 48-hour international video game creation event.

The event brings game developers together at hundreds of sites across the globe to create games during a 48-hour period. With a different theme each year, the event aims to use video games to give developers the opportunity to be creative, share experiences, and express themselves.

Hosted by the Department of Computer Science and Game Development Club at Ithaca College, fourteen developers worked together to create three games based on this year's theme "What do we do now?"

Hoxie developed the character sprites for the game “Your Home, Your Castle” which entails a boy in blue pajamas breaking into the player's house and smashing all of his or her pots, leaving it up to the player to find a way to keep him from coming back.

"This year there was an increase in the number of participants at the Ithaca College jam site, a trend that will hopefully continue into the future," said Nathan Prestopnik, assistant professor and advisor of the IC Game Developers Club. "Every team had fun, learned a lot and is excited for next year's jam."

LeapTrade -- a gaming website and news source for gamers -- sponsored the event.