It was a wonderful sunny day at Belfast, and as Mick and I pulled up and parked outside Farset Labs, Glenn welcomed us and we saw a few people have arrived to set up early. Brekkie table was over-burdened with food, big thanks to Farset Labs for supplying substanence.

I want to say first and foremost before I proceed, a hu-uge thanks to Glenn from Farset Labs, and NI Creativity for making Belfast GameCraft possible!

Now back to the mountain of food we were supplied by Farset Labs… everyone was certainly well fed. This mountain of food materialised for lunch, check the photo out…

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The theme was FAKE NEWS, and laughter was heard which meant we hit the right theme once again, light humour and a bit topical. Folks went straight to work, which I left alone.

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Moar photos

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The winners are…

Big congrats to everyone and to the following who won people’s choice awards. You are all awesome!

People’s Choice 1st Place

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People’s Choice 2nd Place

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People’s Choice 3rd Place

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To everyone who came along

Share your games, videos and photos

Oh if you have tweets, do remember to use #GameCraft and @GlobalGameCraft. Other places to share your tweets, video and photos

• Videos: https://www.youtube.com/user/gamecraftfoundation
• Photos: https://www.flickr.com/groups/globalgamecraft/

Don’t forget to upload your game and share with everyone

Submit your game to https://itch.io/jam/belfast-gamecraft-2017–farset-labs.

Hu-uge thank you again to everyone

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Upcoming Games-related events

Following are some upcoming games events. If you know of other events, do tweet @GlobalGameCraft and we will RT. You can also submit your content to GameDevelopers.ie via here.

The Games Co-Op: April meetup

• When: April 10 @ 7:00 pm - 10:00 pm
• Where: The Liquor Rooms, Dublin
• https://www.facebook.com/events/387358924976377/

Games NI Meetup – StartPlanetNI

• When: April 12 @ 6:00 pm - 9:00 pm
• Where: StartPlanet NI, Belfast
• https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/games-ni-meetup-april-tickets-33213579711

Game Dev Hangouts

• When: April 19 @ 7:00 pm - 10:00 pm
• Where: Farset Labs, Belfast
• https://gamedevelopers.ie/irishgamedev-diary/game-dev-hangouts/

Q-Con XXIV

• When: June 16 - June 18
• Where: Queen’s University, Belfast
• https://www.q-con.org.uk/

Other groups (in no particular order)

• imirt.ie
• NI Game Dev Network - https://www.facebook.com/groups/nigamedevnetwork/
• IrishGameDev FB Group - https://www.facebook.com/groups/370082486348048/
• gamedevelopers.ie
• Galway Game Jam - https://www.facebook.com/galwaygamejam/
• Galway Game Developers - https://www.facebook.com/groups/galwaygamesdev/
• 1GAM Dublin - https://www.facebook.com/groups/1GAMdublin/
• 1GAM Galway - https://www.facebook.com/1gamgalway/
• dubLUDO - https://twitter.com/dubludo
• State of Play - https://www.stateofplay.ie/