A smiley girl in spectacles
Some of the questions are quite reasonable considering the circumstances: “Who is the youngest person in the room?” “Who has made a game in Unity?” Some seem utterly ridiculous – questions I couldn’t expect to ever answer. “Who has worked on a AAA title?” “Who has built a functioning robot?”
A bloody robot? Who builds robots? This isn’t Short Circuit – Johnny 5 is not alive.
“I built a robot,” pipes a fragile, female voice through the hum of chatter – and everyone pays attention. “For Halloween. It was an animatronic Squid Hat. It had motors in it. It moved around while it was on my head.”
An animatronic squid hat. Sorry, what?
The owner of said fragile voice is Jenna Fox – a smiley girl in spectacles with purple streaks though her hair. She looks and sounds like the friendliest girl in the world. She’s here for Game Jam – we all are – and this is a team-building exercise, designed to help this throng of absolute strangers come together and build a fully functioning video game in the space of 48 hours.
I was mentioned on Kotaku today. :)
(Source: kotaku.com.au)
