Rodrigo Alem Fernández, a professor in the Bachelor’s Degree program in Animation and Video Games, said that there were “many new faces: first-timers both at game jams and in game development in general.” “It was the largest jam held in the country to date. This includes the Global Game Jams in January,” he noted.
“To get started, we used the themes from previous years’ Global Game Jams to provide participants with inspiration.”
"Winter Jam is more independent because it isn't part of an international event: it's 100% Uruguayan," Fernández explained.
“In this second edition of Winter, and just as we do with the organizations that co-host the Jams (Ingenio la Winter, Antel la Global), we’re always raising the bar and striving to bring in more people—including newcomers—and create more opportunities for growth, while helping both newcomers to the scene and veterans exercise their creative muscles as they seek out new challenges and talent.”
On this occasion, many local multiplayer games were played, which gave participants the chance to play together on more than one occasion, with “very funny” results, he said.
“As a side note: Pokémon Go was bound to come up; the Pokémon Gym, located at Espacio Ciencia, was contested by teams in the game and was the site of more than a few Pokémon battles organized among players of the same team color.”
Winter Jam was organized by the Universidad ORT Uruguay , and Ingenio, with support from Lo Artesanal, which provided Sunday's lunch.