Game jams are intensive events focusing on creation. Their popularity and visibility have
soared in recent years. The phenomenon has attracted the attention of scholars interested in …

In less than a year's time, March 2022 will mark the twentieth anniversary of the first
documented game jam, the Indie Game Jam, which took place in Oakland, California in …

This article summarises three years of studying game jams. Rooted in extensive field work—
participating, organising, studying and discussing game jams—and multiple methods, we …

Game jams, events for co-creating digital or non-digital games, are connected to learning in
several ways: learning is a common motivation for participation and various learning results …

This article describes the expectations and experiences of young (16 to 19 year old) digital
game jam participants (N= 34) who attend Finnish general upper secondary schools. Game …

Game jams are accelerated game creation events usually taking place over the course of a
short time period. A variety of learning outcomes from game jamming has been discussed in …

Game jams are games enthusiasts' encounters for one obvious goal in common: creating
games. But more than that, these meetings work as an important networking environment for …

In this paper, we examine the motivations and experiences of game jam organizers in
Finland. For the purpose of the study, 13 game jam organizers were interviewed in 2018 …

Time-bounded collaborative events bring together participants from different backgrounds to
address a problem by creating a computational artifact over a short period of time (eg, one or …

Open innovation initiatives aimed at building and proposing service improvements for the
Government increasingly include activities of programming marathons for Apps …