In the last couple of years, awareness of mental health has increased. However, there’s still lots of work to do. In the workplace, mental health illnesses are still not recognized in the same way as physical illnesses and talking about it is still difficult for many people. With this game jam, we want to open up the conversation by building some creative games around this important topic. We need your help!
Topic
Mental Health
Subtopics
Mental Health Illnesses
Self-care
Coping Mechanisms
Symptoms
Breaking walls
Empathy
Support
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When: 17th Feb - 23rd Feb
The Game Jam will run for a week . In that period, make some time to work on your entry but please be aware that you need to sleep and take care of yourself.
Where: online
The Game Jam will be exclusively online, so you are free to choose where you want to work.
Who can participate?
Anyone can participate and everyone is encouraged to participate. In Game Jams all the roles are pretty useful!
What can you make?
Any game you want, that can be downloadable. We are also admitting board games submitted in pdf format.
It’s your first jam? Don’t you know any coding but want to try and make something?
Check these engines:
● Bitsy
● Twine
A selection of games will be curated for an exhibition at Somerset House in London during London Games Festival in April 2020. Participants selected will be contacted by us.
Judgement criteria
The main criteria for judging the entries are: use of theme, gameplay, narrative, art, audio and originality.
Judges
Osama Dorias - Lead Game Designer Warner Bros Montreal
Eline Muijres - Producer Mi'Pu'Mi Games
Adam Campbell- Product Manager at Azoomee Kids
Giada Zavarise - Journalist at Rock Paper Shotgun
Gareth Williams - Co-Founder of Safe in Our World
Rules
- The organization will have the right to remove contents from the Jam that perpetrate discrimination or hate. Any author creating this kind of content will immediately be excluded.
- We don’t accept any discriminatory content or hate-themed creations. The punishment for inappropriate content based on these rules will be the immediate removal from the Game Jam.
- This Jam does not endorse crunch. Please, work a reasonable number of hours and take care of yourself.
- Participants can't submit games made before the game jam's starting date.
- Enjoy!
Discord
Join the community we created specifically for this Jam and find help and inspiration.
Which charities are GamesAid supporting over 2019?
- MAPS
With your help, either making games or donating for this cause, we are able to help these and other organizations to change the lives of many, many people. We need you!
Donations
We are able to help our charities every year thanks to the generosity of people like you. Please, consider to support us through or Just Giving page. Any contribution makes a big difference!
Social Media
The hashtag for the jam is #GamesAidMHJam. You are also helping us by sharing your progress on social media!
Contact
Partners
We are looking for people and organizations to support us! If you are interested, contact us via email.
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