Hi! I'm your friendly intellikat, and this is the first game jam I've hosted.

I'm a director, writer, performer, game designer, artist, and educator. You can see some of the video games I've only recently been developing on my itch.io page. 

My interest in hosting a jam inspired by Gunpei Yokoi's Game & Watch series is really based on Yokoi's own philosophy of "Lateral Thinking of Seasoned Technology" (枯れた技術の水平思考, "Kareta Gijutsu no Suihei Shikō"). This approach utilizes technology which is already well-established and cheap to produce, and emphasizes innovation and fun over cutting-edge technology and trends. Its limitations are, in a way its freedom. A game's success has to do with the heart of what makes gameplay enjoyable, rather than a reliance on surface flash.

More on this later, if this game jam grows in numbers.