Social interactions in game jams

Pirker, Johanna; Punz, Andreas; Kopf, Johannes

doi:10.1145/3337722.3341843

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“…Jamming the Curve attracted more than 400 participants who collectively developed 51 games. Pirker and Voll [5] characterize a game jam of this size as a "giant game jam." By opening the jam to international participants, Jamming the Curve ensured that there was a diverse range of ideas and approaches, which was especially relevant given the pandemic's global impact.…”

Section: Game Jam Overviewmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Game jams traditionally take place at onsite location(s), usually educational institutions. The jams typically consist of a set of rules that include the injection of new ideas into the game industry, a general thematic focus, short time span, restriction of location and tools, and ad-hoc team formation [5]. Jams are used to help build industry-relevant skills and portfolios as well as connect developers, students, and industry representatives.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Jams are used to help build industry-relevant skills and portfolios as well as connect developers, students, and industry representatives. Participants come from many different backgrounds with varying levels of expertise and skillsets [5][6][7]. Game jamming is a social experience with a sense of community, feedback, and motivation facilitated within the experience [1,6].…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Virtual Game Jam: Collaborative Pathway to Serious Games for Health

Matthews

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2022

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Game jams are collaborative competitions where participants make games from scratch within a short period of time. Occasionally, these games aim to promote meaningful learning outcomes by embedding functional knowledge into entertaining and engaging gameplay. We wanted to understand if a game jam during a global pandemic could be used as an effective method to facilitate a collaborative, multidisciplinary team’s ability to design, develop, and implement a serious game on a health-related topic (i.e., COVID-19). We examined the 2020 game jam hosted by the National Academy of Sciences to evaluate one method to organize a serious virtual game jam and provide a roadmap for implementation using qualitative and quantitative data collection methods to evaluate its efficacy. In addition to identifying best practices and lessons learned from our tools and processes, our results demonstrate that a virtual game jam can in fact be a powerful tool for creating a scientifically sound, population-level, big picture–thinking serious game used for health education, facilitate collaborative multidisciplinary teams and be a practical learning experience for game jammers.

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Section: Game Jam Overviewmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%