Games Now! Community

Overview

In this project, we run experiments with game-native social platforms, such as Twitch.tv, Itch.io and Discord. The experiments are done as part of the Games Now! lecture series and directed towards building more communal feel for the students within the open learning community including Aalto University students, students at other universities as well as professional at the game industry.

Mainly we will aim for two developmental issues: creating more frequent open online learning community on Games Now! Twitch.tv and Youtube channels and developing the Games Now! Production Team engagement with playful and gamified approach to imitate the social and networked nature of Finnish game development learning communities. Through the student-driven activities of the production team, we will establish stronger interdisciplinary game community at Aalto University.

During the project, we will organize online game jams with accompanying Twitch talk-shows, with a different game experts as our visitors in each jam. Each jam will have a kick-off talk show, where the visitor will present a design constraint for the jam and we will be playing games that show the constraint in effect. The jams will end in a review talk-show, where we will play and discuss the submitted games with the visitor.