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.
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
Mar 18
2018
Conference Date
Draft paper submission deadline
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