Game jam

Deen, Menno; Cercós, Robert; Chatman, Alan; Naseem, Amani; Bernhaupt, Regina; Fowler, Allan; Schouten, Ben; Mueller, Florian

doi:10.1145/2559206.2559225

Cited by 29 publications

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“…[26,37]) or a nominal fee (e.g. various GGJ locations), compared to a higher workshop registration cost, such as at CHI2014 [6]. Examples of academic game jams include Game Jam: [4 Health] [8] and Game Jam: [4 Research] [6].…”

Section: Academic Game Jamsmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Playful Game Jams

Goddard

Byrne

Mueller

2014

Proceedings of the 2014 Conference on Interactive Entertainment

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Game jams are social events involving the integration of various game making disciplines (e.g. programming, art, design) to make games under constraints, such as a short fixed time. Game jams are emerging in areas such as research, education, and industry as events to facilitate game making for designed outcomes; i.e. outcomes elicited from appropriately designed game jams. Game jams continue to grow and be appropriated to new contexts, however, little is known about how to design game jams to facilitate designed outcomes. We identify participation in game jams as a constructive form of play defined as ludic craft. Consequently, we investigate the properties (e.g. rules) of game jams under the lens of play on the playful vs. gameful continuum. Reflecting on our experiences as facilitators and participants of jams in indie, industry, and academic contexts, we have derived a set of guidelines for game jams to facilitate ludic craft in its playful and gameful forms. We present this set of guidelines for jam facilitators to cultivate experiences that support designed outcomes in contexts such as research, education, and industry.

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Section: Academic Game Jamsmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…This growth has included the appropriation to new contexts, such as game jams for research [6]. Outcomes in learning suggests possibility for appropriation of game jams for education [12].…”

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confidence: 99%

Playful Game Jams

Goddard

Byrne

Mueller

2014

Proceedings of the 2014 Conference on Interactive Entertainment

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“…As the experience reached its climax, we gave some instructions where body contact was a more direct outcome, like "two players touch someone else's leg with their controllers". In our early evaluation of playtests held during our game jam design process [1], we find intangle encourages players to playfully and safely test social and personal boundaries of contact through game play. We allow room for these explorations to occur by inviting rather than enforcing body contact.…”

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Intangle

Garner

Wood

Danilovic

et al. 2014

Proceedings of the First ACM SIGCHI Annual Symposium on Computer-Human Interaction in Play

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Multi-player computer games are increasingly being designed to engage with interpersonal bodily interactions, however, their focus is often limited to facilitating direct body contact. In contrast, we propose that designers foster varying levels of body contact through the design of shared controller interactions to introduce new types of gameplay that affords players a more nuanced engagement with the concept of socially and personally mediated body-space in games. We explore this through our game intangle, where participants follow computer-generated vocal instructions on how to operate shared controllers that results inevitably into players weaving their bodies together. This game embeds strong social values in the gameplay such as collaboration, empathy and inclusivity.

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“…Games [4Diversity] (Games4Diversity, n.d.), games for research (Deen et al, 2014), and Games [4Health] (Games for Health Game Jam, 2014) are some significant examples in which a more "serious" topic is on the table for the jamming event. As seen in these examples, game jamming has a potential that can be leveraged for social exploration.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Jamming as a design approach. Power of jamming for creative iteration

Bayrak

2017

The Design Journal

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Game jams are constrained game creation events that have been rapidly growing over the last decade. With the space and restriction acknowledging the iterative design process, the sweet urgency and playfully creative nature of game jams enable a concert across several disciplines with the participation of various people in the creation of impressive designs and artefacts. Considering the productivity of these events, the approach of jamming can be a powerful design model for both research through design and design for social innovation. As a collaborative environment with the potential of purposefully creating curiosity, learning and awareness, the design approach of game jams can be the future of design within several multidisciplinary contexts. In response to questioning design for next, this work looks at jamming as a unified design approach that is collaborative and speculative in nature, with similarities to participatory design and speculative design.

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Game jam

Cited by 29 publications

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