The theme of Bratislava Game Jam 2017 was Computer controlled society. Our attendees expressed their views on how would life in such society look like. Individual games worked with artifical intelligence, influencing elections, computer security, social media and reflection of video game design built on maximization of time spent playing the game. The fact, that our attendees shown how to combine critical thinking with spectacular technical, design and artistic proficiency directly by creating a video game makes us incredibly happy.
Winners
Main prize of Bratislava Game Jam 2017
Skinner
Team: Nohavmede
Clicker type game about Skinner the rat who lives in his box. He loves a casual play and rewards, unaware that he is the one who is being played with.
Best aesthetic experience
Mia_Bot
Team: Mega Z
Point and click adventure. Help robotic housewife take revenge against her owner!
Attendee choice
Last Phone
Team: Jánošíkové Gule
A game about 4 people fighting for the last phone.
Honorable mentions
Honorable mention for educational potential
Data Hunt
Team: Vypasené Holuby
People store most of their data on computers these days and corporations want their data. You are here to help the corporations.
Honorable mention for gameplay
Walking Hack
Team: Testicle Twisters
Hack people to control them as smartphone zombies in a multiplayer battle to conquer the current smartphone dominated society.
Honorable mention for the idea
Follower
Team: Vroom!
We live in the age of Social Media. But our computer–mediated interactions can be overwhelming. How much social pressure can YOU take?
A game for HTC Vive.
Honorable mention for aesthetics
Silent Slaver
Team: Gejm
Player as AI, is rigging infrastructure of little Darkweb town to get to some human slaves.
Honorable mention for aesthetics
Hands of Justice
Team: TEDi Games
In the future, currupted politicians are not tolerated and are replaced by robots. Thus ultimately the computers control the society.
A game for HTC Vive.
Honorable mention for aesthetics
The Last Two
Team: Gloomy Pigeon
You wake up and there are robots in the streets. Let’s get to the bottom of this.
We’ll add the link in a while.
Other games
Party For John
Team: TOFF Games
Unplug your neighbours from their electronic devices so they leave modern technology behind and all come to a birthday party of your little neighbour John who’s turning 6 in few days.
Predestination
Team: 3+1
You are a young AI in training tasked with sorting people into roles in a society based on their coded value.
72
Team: iddqd
Game about not letting a person leave his computer at any cost. You play as a computer sending him notifications
Neonator
Team: Junáci
A parody of the 80’s sci-fi action movies. The game takes place in a dystopian “future” where society has been enslaved by computers and your goal is to fight in order to defeat the computers.
Detective-Utopia
Team: CmdSpace
Investigate the uncommon fault of AI that controls a smart city.
Safe Space
Team: Fúzelníci
A game about reducing loss after an anonymous hacker breaches into your company network.
Dreams of Kyberia
Team: BeerMeisters
An ordinary day in Computer controlled society gone wrong.
People on Fall
Team: Dancing Ferrets
A game about preventing computer controlled society from developing.
A big thank you to our partners, without whom the event would not take place.