The Global Game Jam has passed into the realms of history, and the crash from the 48-hour caffeine buzz has just about worn off. It was a brilliant weekend, even better than 2009 if I may say so!

This year I teamed up with Matthew Simmons, Chris O’Donovan and Martyn Poole in Team FAIL HARDER (Team FAIL from last year, plus two) to produce the Global Game Jam Game Jam Boat Game. I spent my weekend up to my eyeballs in PHP, C# and pizza and made it through training alive.

Training for what, you say?

The X48 Microsoft XNA GameCamp will be at Birmingham City University next Friday-Saturday (19th-20th Feb) and Matthew Simmons, Martyn Poole, Jason Thomas and I will be there!

Over the weekend, we will have roughly 24 hours to produce a game using Microsoft’s XNA Framework, so it’s all the work in about half the time! Last year in Derby, my team produced Bellis Perennis which made 3rd place, so we have something to live up to this time!

Some interesting stats from last year’s X48 event - in 48 hours, we went through:

• 264 chocolate bars,
• 90 pints of milk,
• 80 Freddo bars,
• 100 assorted pizzas, and
• 315 assorted cans of energy drink

(More stats available at daytum.com/x48)

I’ll be tweeting from the event (as usual) via my Twitter page, and if you’re going I’ll see you there! The Inside Xbox video from last year’s event can be found below if you’re still wondering what it’s all about (look out for me at the back of my team at 1:35):