Endless Paradigm

Not sure how many of you will be interested in this, but there was a content held in the Queensland University of Technology (fairly close to where I am at now, in fact) where 20 teams were given the task to design and make a whole game in 48 hours straight.
I believe teams were limited to 6 people each; 16 of the teams were amateurs, and the other 4 "pros".

Arstechnica have a fairly long article detailing the events, split into three parts; at the time of writing, only the first two parts are up:
http://arstechnica.com/gaming/news/2011/...o-game.ars
http://arstechnica.com/gaming/news/2011/...rt-2-1.ars

If you're perhaps interested in game development, it may be an interesting read.

i wonder how they will smell after the 48'th hour of work, lol

anyways ive seen some of it yesterday in ars, and they take it seriously, i bet more 8bit goodness in their works, hehehe

They do something like this in ireland every year too at Tipperary Institute of Technology.

http://globalgamejam.org/
http://www.gamesfleadh.ie/compete/ggj/

Some people in my games development course done it this year (2011) with 4 people on each team.

Interesting.
(though not surprised that it's being done elsewhere, just posted this for the article if anyone was interested)

My university is going a one night game dev contest this saturday.

teams are entered and each team picks 3 themes out of a hat and has to make their game based on those 3 items they pick.

They start on the saturday, and don't stop until the same time on the sunday.

I did it last year as a sprite artist for a team, out game was pretty cool and wee won the "People's Choice" award. I got a free copy of Rock Band: Green Day for PS3.

Nice!