Moray Game Jam: Workshops and Talks

Join us on Saturday 7 March for a range of workshops and talks hosted by a variety of industry veterans.

Agenda


🕑: 10:00 AM - 10:45 AM
"Optimization in Unity 6" for the technical audience
Host: Corrie Green

🕑: 10:30 AM - 11:15 AM
Creating Modern Retro Games
Host: Alistair Low

Info: Creating Modern Retro Games - Full details to follow

🕑: 11:30 AM - 12:15 PM
Audio Design and Music in Games
Host: Daniel Morrison Neil

Info: Daniel Morrison Neil is a musician, sound designer and lecturer in sound in the School of Innovation & Technology. Daniel is a director at the video game studio Team FOLON and previously worked on Fallout: London, as well as working as a dubbing mixer for various international films, and a recording mixer and engineer for La Chunky Studios in Glasgow. His main interests centre on temporality in sound design and music, as well as interactive design utilising game engines for sound exploration.

🕑: 11:00 AM - 12:15 PM
Real-World Game Development: Challenges, Decisions, Lessons
Host: Gary McCarten

Info: Running a game studio is a series of decisions, and some of them only make sense in hindsight. This workshop is an open, interactive discussion about the real challenges, decisions, and hard-won lessons that come with running a games studio. We’ll dig into what goes wrong, what unexpectedly works, and how small choices can quietly snowball into major consequences (both good and bad). Your questions are actively encouraged throughout. Whether you’re curious about setting up a studio, running a business, transitioning from developer to leader, or what it actually means to own and manage a team, bring it all to the table. The conversation will follow what you want to know, not a fixed agenda.

Rather than a scripted talk, this workshop is shaped by the questions and topics the audience bring.

🕑: 12:00 PM - 12:45 PM
Herding Titans: The Art Direction of Godzilla x Kong: Titan Chasers
Host: Louisa Gallie

Info: The Art Direction of Godzilla x Kong: Titan Chasers

🕑: 12:30 PM - 01:15 PM
How to make games long-term – lessons from 5 years of solo dev
Host: Iona Ferguson

Info: Iona Ferguson is a lecturer in Immersive Systems Design at The Glasgow School of Art where she teaches: game design, coding and audio design and is a researcher investigating the experiences of LGBTQ+ people in computer science. She operates Arboreta Games where she has released three games - The Black Iris (2021), It Sleeps Below the Haar (2024) and Unto the Aurora (2025) and closed caption plug-in CaptionAssist3D. She also runs TRANS//CODED, a Glasgow-based organisation offering events and classes to support coding education in the trans community.

🕑: 01:30 PM - 02:15 PM
More than games: Beyond Entertainment
Host: Brian Baglow

Info: More Than Games: Beyond Entertainment

🕑: 01:00 PM - 01:45 PM
Agentic Coding: The Future of Game Development (Live Demo)
Host: Andrew Mulholland

Info: What happens when an AI becomes your entire dev team? Watch as we build a complete game from scratch without writing a single line of code - just having a conversation with Claude Code while you direct the action. YOU control the creative process: vote on game mechanics, suggest features, choose themes, and even name the final boss.

We'll speedrun game development through pure conversation, testing whether AI can handle everything from ""add power-ups"" to ""make it two-player."" Every audience member becomes a game designer as we discover just how far natural language programming can go. Come see the future of game development where creativity matters more than syntax, and watch your ideas come to life in real-time."

Also check out other Workshops in Elgin, Arts events in Elgin.