The 3rd annual Toronto Game Jam has just been announced for May 9 - 11, 2008. If you’re not familiar with TOJam, it’s a weekend-long event where game developers and artists gather to tackle the challenge of creating a complete game in just 3 days. It’s a friendly, collaborative environment where burgeoning game creators can exchange ideas and get some recognition. You can participate as a single, in a team or as a floater, helping others out. The end result is always a slew of games that shows off Toronto’s wealth of untapped game development talent.

Things I would love to work on and/or see at the jam this year:

• non-musical re-interpretation of guitar hero/rock band controllers
• iPhone games using the new SDK (might be hard with few iPhones in Canada)
• games driven by web content sources (think Wikipedia: The FPS)
• alternate reality games