Logan Park High School year 12 student Emerson Davies, 16, holds a laptop at the 2025 Otago Polytechnic Game Jam yesterday. Polytechnic department of information technology principal lecturer Grayson Orr said the participants had two days to develop a game from scratch that included prompts. The prompts were "green", "floating island" and "villain". This year was the biggest game jam yet with 33 participants with eight groups. Emerson said he was having a lot of fun learning about game development and was considering a career in information technology. His group developed a game in which a frog’s parents had been kidnapped by a fly and he had to rescue them.
