On Saturday, December 6th, Mouse had the exciting opportunity to host a game-making table at the Hive Moveable Game Jam! The event was hosted at Brooklyn College Community Partnership and featured activities and youth from Mouse and other Hive NYC organizations! This was the third of six Game Jams that Mouse will be a part of over the course of the year.

We started the day by hacking the popular game "Rock, Paper, Scissors" as a group and then split up to go to different stations. 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.

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 and hand-drawn pictures scanned in with the computer's built in camera.

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:

• Build a game with Gamestar Mechanic at the Global Kids table.
• Hack Brick Breaker with stop motion at the Museum of the Moving Image table.
• Learn how to build platform games in Pixel Press at the CodorDojo table.
• Hack games with MiniCade at the Eyebeam table.

Missed this Game Jam? Don't worry! The next Game Jam is Friday, January 23rd at 5 PM! Stay tuned to The Wire for more information!