On Friday, January 23rd, Mouse lead a Scratch remixing table at the January Hive Moveable Game Jam! The event was hosted at The Museum of the Moving Image in Queens and featured activities from Mouse and other Hive NYC organizations! This was the fourth of six Game Jams that Mouse will be a part of over the course of the year.

We started the day by splitting into groups and inventing a simple game on the spot! Then we got to choose one of four stations to check out and try a game-making activity. The activities at this game jam were focused more on the art and design side of games than ever before!

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 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:

• Reimagine classic video game characters with The Museum of the Moving Image
• Create levels for The Gravity Ethers with Iridescent.
• Create symbols and signs with Groundswell

Students from Groundswell helped facilitate their activity! So cool!

Missed this Game Jam? Don't worry! The next Game Jam is coming up in March! Stay tuned to The Wire for more information!