Defining Game Jam.
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...Kultima discusses the potential of categorizing game jams in terms of durations, source and types of constraints, social context, rules, targeted participants, goals, and similar factors [9]....
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...In the literature several definitions for game jams can be found [63]....
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...Once the core of the story component was established, we engaged in the development of the game mechanics in a game jam.(71)...
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"Defining Game Jam." refers background in this paper
...In some papers game jams were specifically appointed as platforms for promoting the culture of embracing failure [9, 18]....
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...[18], who found a positive correlation between game jam participation and formal academic performance in game education....
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...Game jams were discussed widely in the papers as game development events [3, 4, 5, 6, 9, 10, 18, 20] or gatherings [4, 5, 20]....
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...The role of motivational factors was a popular topic in the game jam research papers [9, 18, 19, 20]....
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...Altogether 20 academic papers [2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 9, 10, 12, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26] discussing game jams in one way or another were examined for this study(24) (see Table 1....
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...[16] listed seven “key rules that [typically] outline the general event dynamics”....
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...[16] investigated game jams as a general format of prototyping to gain better understanding on prototyping practices in software development processes, while Scott and Ghinea [21] were interested in game jams as an opportunity for educating game makers on the issues of accessibility in games....
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...The community is also seen as essential: game jams gather similar-minded people with a shared passion [19, 20, 24], and jams can also work as fruitful platforms for networking [24] outside daily communities [16]....
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...Popularly in the examined group of academic papers, game jams were often described as rapid prototyping or events for rapid prototyping [2, 9, 15, 16, 22, 25]....
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...Usually a game jam is also celebrated as a place for people of multiple skillsets and backgrounds [3, 4, 5, 15] coming together and collaborating [2, 16]....
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"Defining Game Jam." refers background or methods in this paper
...In some papers game jams were specifically appointed as platforms for promoting the culture of embracing failure [9, 18]....
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...Goddard, Byrne and Mueller [9] frame game jams as games, or more precisely as...
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...…GGJ Japan 4 Zook & Riedl 2013 GGJ USA 5 Deen et al. 2014 (workshop proposal, general approach) The Netherlan ds, Australia, New Zealand, France 4 Goddard et al. 2014 Ludum Dare, fab48hr, GGJ Australia 10 Ho et al. 2014 GGJ Australia 4 Moser et al. 2014 (workshop proposal, general…...
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...Game jams were discussed widely in the papers as game development events [3, 4, 5, 6, 9, 10, 18, 20] or gatherings [4, 5, 20]....
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...Goddard, Byrne and Mueller [9] also created categories for different types of game jams based on the targeted participants and social contexts of the events....
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"Defining Game Jam." refers background in this paper
...Altogether 20 academic papers [2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 9, 10, 12, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26] discussing game jams in one way or another were examined for this study(24) (see Table 1....
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...Game jams were discussed widely in the papers as game development events [3, 4, 5, 6, 9, 10, 18, 20] or gatherings [4, 5, 20]....
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...[6] commented on how game jam participants’ “eager engagement” has been motivated by “the enthusiastic search for new ideas”, yet few proved successful in their endeavors....
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"Defining Game Jam." refers background in this paper
...Fowler et al. 2013 GGJ New Zealand, USA, Canada 5 Fowler et al. 2013 GGJ New Zealand, USA, Canada, UK 7 Reng et al. 2013 Nordic Game Jam Denmark 8 Scott & Ghinea 2013 GGJ UK 4 Turner et al. 2013 The 48hr game making challenge Australia 10 Yamane 2013 GGJ Japan 4 Zook & Riedl 2013 GGJ USA 5 Deen et…...
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...Some described game jams as “accelerated game development” [24] or expressed the intensity of the event by describing it as a “marathon” [20] or otherwise intense or energized happening [2, 19, 24]....
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...As already stated, the motivational factors of the jams were a popular topic in the game jam research papers [9, 18, 19, 20]....
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...The community is also seen as essential: game jams gather similar-minded people with a shared passion [19, 20, 24], and jams can also work as fruitful platforms for networking [24] outside daily communities [16]....
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...” Reng Schoenau-Fog and Kofoed [19] also emphasize the role of game jams as social events....
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