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Design Processes in Game Jams: Studies of Rapid Design Processes

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CHI PLAY '17 Extended Abstracts: Extended Abstracts Publication of the Annual Symposium on Computer-Human Interaction in Play

Pages 723 - 726

https://doi.org/10.1145/3130859.3133226

Published: 15 October 2017 Publication History

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With the rise of game jams, game creation has been opened up to a diverse community of game developers, be they professionals or hobbyists. However, despite game jams? increasing importance for aspiring game developers, and their utilization in education and professional game development, game jams as a design process are not thoroughly researched, empirically or theoretically. I draw on interaction design and game design theory to study how design processes in game jams unfold; for example, how the format impacts the creative process, how participants cope with the specific challenges and opportunities in this process, and how they qualify design choices under the pressure of a game jam setting. In presenting my research and future plans for my PhD project, I discuss how game jams can be studied from a research-through-design approach to develop knowledge on how people work creatively in game jams.

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Design Processes in Game Jams: Studies of Rapid Design Processes
1. Human-centered computing

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CHI PLAY '17 Extended Abstracts: Extended Abstracts Publication of the Annual Symposium on Computer-Human Interaction in Play

October 2017

700 pages

ISBN:9781450351119

DOI:10.1145/3130859

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Eindhoven University of Technology and Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences, the Netherlands
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Eindhoven University of Technology, the Netherlands
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New Mexico State University, USA
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University of York, UK
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Eindhoven University of Technology, the Netherlands

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Maram SPfau JDodechani JSeif El-Nasr M(2023)A Visual Ethnographic Study at Cultural Spaces to Identify Character Creation OpportunitiesProceedings of the 18th International Conference on the Foundations of Digital Games10.1145/3582437.3582445(1-12)Online publication date: 12-Apr-2023
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