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Game jams as method: and how to run your own

Harry R Wilson, Richard A Cole, Sarah E Campbell, Eirini Lampiri, Ruth Mariner

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Abstract

We are all, already, game designers, having discovered the world through play.
Game jams activate this latent potential and have the capacity to become ideas laboratories. The ‘Game jams as method’ resource on this page offers a series of approaches and advice for how you can run your own game jam to explore pressing real world challenges.

This resource offers advice for anyone interested in using game jams as a method to tackle complex real world problems.
Original languageEnglish
TypeImpact Toolkit
Media of outputPDF
PublisherUniversity of Bristol
Number of pages16
Publication statusPublished - Jan 2026

Keywords

  • AI
  • XR
  • video games
  • game jam

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  • How to run Game JamRED_FINAL

    This resource is free to use and adapt for your own work under the Creative Commons-BY license. This license enables reusers to distribute, remix, adapt, and build upon the material in any medium or format, so long as attribution is given to the creator(s). The license allows for commercial use. You must credit the ‘AI Tools for Games and XR Storytelling Project’ and provide a link to our website: aitools.blogs.bristol.ac.uk.

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    • The Bristol Digital Game Lab

      Cole, R. A. (Co-Principal Investigator), Samuel, M. (Co-Principal Investigator) & Zhang, X. (Co-Principal Investigator)

      1/08/22 → 31/07/30

      Project: Research

    • AI Tools for Games and XR Storytelling

      Wilson, H. R. (Principal Investigator), Cole, R. A. (Co-Investigator) & Campbell, S. E. (Co-Investigator)

      23/07/24 → 31/05/25

      Project: Other

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