What is a Game Jam?

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Lai, Gorm and Khosmood, Foaad. 2022. What is a Game Jam? In: Allan Fowler and Foaad Khosmood, eds. Game Jams – History, Technology, and Organisation. Cham, Switzerland: Springer, pp. 1-20. ISBN 9783031151866 [Book Section]

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While we may have an intuitive understanding of what game jams are, in this introductory chapter we will break things down a bit to give the reader a more fundamental understanding of the game jam movement and its history. We also look at the typical elements of a game jams, identify different types of game jams, and finally take a quick look at why we jam and examine attempts at formal definitions.

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https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-15187-3_1