Do you need some time on your own? Do you need some time all alone? If you want to make games but feel the chorus to “November Rain” burning in your heart, you’re not the only one. Several of your kindred spirits will soon be gathering on a remote farm in northern Iceland for the Isolation Game Jam 2015, where you can create games and “enjoy the silence and near complete lack of human civilization.”
This is the second year for the event, which is organized by Jóhannes Gunnar Þorsteinsson, founder of the Icelandic Game Assembly. “The best word to describe the area is bleak, and I do not mean that in a bad way,” Þorsteinsson told Kill Screen. Close your eyes, and let the event description take you on a journey:
Imagine sitting outside, with barely any sign of human civilization around you. The only thing you can see is the barren highlands ahead and the small pack of game developers around you who got the same crazy idea as you. To travel to an old farm far inside a dead end valley in North West Iceland to make games.
GO ON.
Did I mention you will be able to pet lambs?
Well, that settles it. If you can afford a plane ticket to Reykjavík, reserve your space now. The event will run from May 28 to June 1 and charge 5,500 Icelandic kronur (about $40 for Americans) for lodging, in addition to the cost of food and travel. Last year’s event drew seven developers from countries including Romania, Sweden, Finland, Iceland, and Canada, and space remains very limited—there are only eight beds at the farmhouse. Go live your best life and make wonderful things in a beautiful, remote place with other people who love games. Remember, the lambs are waiting for you, and try as they might they cannot pet themselves.