GGJW 2014 - Global Game Jam Workshop

The Global Game Jam (GGJ) is the world’s largest game development activity (“game jam”). Every year since 2009 thousands of game enthusiasts participate in this forty-eight hour challenge to make games together around the world. The event provides a unique opportunity to study and understand people, processes, and products; the three P’s of game development to explore innovation, collaboration and experimentation. The interest in researching the GGJ community has reached significant levels. It has been evolving for the past few years, extending and modifying existing methodologies used to understand the complexities game development within a rapid-prototyping framework, in a specified time and theme. In this workshop, we plan to continue where we left off from our successful FDG 2013 workshop. This will bring together academics and Game Jam organizers to discuss and understand the considerable potential that the GGJ offers participants, academics, and organizers.
Organizers:
Allan Fowler
Mirjam Palosaari Eladhari
Foaad Khosmood
Ali Arya