This year marked the beginning of the annual Hype Jam - a game jam organized by Andrew McPherson and hosted by the Seattle Indies. At this jam, game developers come together to create a trailer for a hypothetical game - in 48 hours!
This year, the event took place from August 2-4 at the beautiful Midtown 21 building in downtown Seattle. The jam was sponsored by Amazon Game Tech, Amazon Games, and Twitch, and it included food for hungry game developers and outstanding aerial views of Seattle. At the beginning of the jam, individuals conceptualized and presented ideas for a hypothetical game that could be created. Groups formed around some of these ideas, with programmers, artists, sound developers, and storytellers teaming up together to make a trailer.
-Tessa Thurman (story development)
-Anabelle Decoret (editor)
-Erika McKracken (videographer)
-Bill Morse (character design/2-D artist)
-Grace Wallis (music and sound design)
Together, we worked to create a game trailer based around the story of someone who applies for a job...only to get blackmailed into becoming a gig-economy super spy.
I participated by recording voice-overs, designing the sound for the sets and sound effects, and, of course, preparing the entire music soundtrack.
You can view the completed video here on YouTube:
It was a lot of fun to put together with my teammates, and I look forward to repeating the adventure at next year's Hype Jam!
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