On Saturday, March 14th, 49 young people came to the March Hive Moveable Game Jam to play, hack and make games! The event was hosted at Iridescent Science Studios in the Bronx and featured activities from MOUSE and other Hive NYC organizations!

We started the day by splitting into groups and inventing a simple game on the spot! Then we got to choose two of four stations to try a game-making activity.

At MOUSE's station, attendees hacked a simple Scratch game called Ghost Blast! where you play as a friendly ghost who has to dodge evil spirits. You can try this activity yourself! Just go to Mission #7: It's the Remix in our Serious Games Badge.

Attendees replaced the characters in the game with their own characters and even swapped the game background in some cases. Participants used images from Google image search to fully make their games over.

Everyone hacked Ghost Blast in different ways, creating incredible new mods of the game. The final games can be played right here, so check them out.

We weren't the only table at this Game Jam running awesome activities. Attendees also got to:

• Draw maps for a platform style game with Pixel Press and CodorDojo NYC
• Create levels for Osu with Iridescent.
• Hack a different Scratch game with Exposure Camp

Missed this Game Jam? Don't worry! The last Game Jam of this year is coming up in April! Stay tuned to The Wire for more information!