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Introduction

We are glad to announce the third annual International Conference on Game Jams, Hackathons, and Game Creation Events (ICGJ 2018). ICGJ is an interdisciplinary conference for educators, researchers, professionals, and event organizers across various fields related to game jams and hackathons. This one-day conference will hosted in San Francisco at GitHub HQ on March 18, 2017. This conference builds on expanding number of conferences, workshops series and research evaluating, enhancing, and improving game creation events. The conference proceedings will be published in the ACM Digital Library.

Call for paper

Important date

2017-12-08
Draft paper submission deadline
2018-01-05
Draft paper acceptance notification

Submission Topics

Major topics of interest this year will include (but are not limited to) the following: 

  • Communication skills 

  • Community building 

  • Creativity 

  • Educational dimension of game jams and hackathons (formal or informal) 

  • Game design issues in game jams 

  • Game jam and hackathon attendance: who and why? 

  • Game jam and hackathon impacts 

  • Game jam and hackathon methodologies 

  • Game jam and hackathon resources and assets (art, animation, music, sound, etc.) 

  • Group dynamics 

  • Ideation 

  • Incentives and rewards in game jams and hackathons 

  • Learning in game jams and hackathons 

  • Makerspaces 

  • Rapid application development 

  • Team formation 

  • Theme development 

  • Tools and technologies 

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Important Date
  • Mar 18

    2018

    Conference Date

  • Dec 08 2017

    Draft paper submission deadline

  • Jan 05 2018

    Draft Paper Acceptance Notification

  • Mar 18 2018

    Registration deadline