The Studio is delighted to be one of the host venues for the ExPlay Games Jam 2012.

Are you ready to push yourself to the limit, flex your brain, drop your pants and reach for the sky? The Extended Play game jam is where raw creativity reacts with extreme digital skills to explode and shower the public in face-melting interactive sickness.

This October, budding games developers and designers from across the UK are invited to take part in a 24 hour Games Jam here in the Studio or at the Science Museum in London. Open to teams and individuals, the Games Jam will be led by expert bio-medical scientists from the Wellcome Trust, who will reveal a theme at the start of the 24 hour period during which participants will work round the clock to create a brand new, playable game. Completed games will be judged by experts, and winners from each location will be able to showcase their games to the public at the ExPlay Games Festival in Bath in November 2012.

The Games Jam will take place on 5 and 6 October, with the theme, curated by The Wellcome Trust, announced on the morning evening of Friday 5 October and two locations linked by a live audio-visual feed. The Games are organised by ExPlay Festival, hosted by The Pervasive Media Studios in Bristol and The Science Museum in London and curated and funded by The Wellcome Trust.

How can I be involved?

You can register for the Extended Play 2012 Game Jam here.