What do I bring?

This depends on what you want to make.

• For digital games: You bring your own tools, laptop (and charger), sound equipment, peripherals, software, assets, etc. We do not provide any equipment for making digital games.
• For non-digital games (card/boardgames): Bring paper, scissors, dice, card, paints, pens, pencils, and other crafty materials.
• Art: Drawing tablet/ art supplies
• Writing: Pen and paper/laptop and charger

What kind of games can I make?

We can break games in to the follow broad categories:

• Digital or Video Games
• Table Top Games (boardgames, cardgames)

Digital Games

Twine

If you want to make a game focused on the writing, Twine lets you create html games where you progress by clicking highlighted words or links. This is suitable for a something with a lot of choices, such as an interactive conversation, or if you want to make a game where the player has no choices at all.

Twine publishes directly to HTML, so you can post your work nearly anywhere. Anything you create with it is completely free to use any way you like, including for commercial purposes.

Getting started with Twine

You can: Download and install (preferred) or make your game online

See more info via https://twinery.org/wiki/twine2:getting_started

Tutorials

• A good starting guide via Twine
• A Total Beginner’s Guide to Twine 2.1 via adamhammond.com/twineguide

Example Twine Games

• So You've Been Called Out
• Depression Quest

Bitsy

This is a new game making tool for lofi pixelated games. This is good choice if you don't feel comfortable creating art but you still want to make a video game in which a character moves around and talks.

• Tutorial by Claire Morley: claire1605.itch.io/tutorial

@adamledoux says "the goal is to make it easy to make games where you can walk around and talk to people and be somewhere."

Getting started with Bitsy

Go to https://ledoux.itch.io/bitsy.

Tutorials

A good tutorial to get you started: clairemorleyart.com/a-bitsy-tutorial

Example Bitsy Games

• The Milk and Mitten
• Rainy Day

Board Game or Pen & Paper RPG Games

If you don't want to use computers at all, you can make a board game with physical materials! Or even a pen & paper roleplaying game, where a group of players act out and improvise their choices in scenarios you create for them.

Tutorials

• How to make a Pen & Paper RPG!
• How to make a Board Game!

Examples

• Monster Hearts 2
• Consentacle

Flatgame (A mix of both paper art and digital)

You could also create a game using your own drawings and handwriting. Flatgames are often made in Unity a game making tool that allows your game to publisher on the web but also on phones and other devices. There is a template so you can just import your own art and sounds and the game is playable immediately!

Tutorials

How to make a flatgame for absolute beginners!

Flatjam Examples

• Craigallian Fire
• How to Sea

I've never made a game, can I take part?

🙌 Yes!

This event is both a creative jam for all mediums and a game jam. We'll have people giving tutorials and information on how to make games on the day, who will be on hand to help out with any problems. Games are a collaborative medium, if you write/draw/compose then you can join a team with programmers there to make a game together. No coding knowledge necessary.

Do I have to be on a team?

Nope, let us know when you check-in at registration on Sunday morning, and let us know what skills you have, and we can form a group in the morning before our announcements.

I've made loads of games but I don't know how to approach this?

We'll have some tutorials on agency and presenting choice in games as well as some information from ithrivegames.org on creating empathy in games, and we're hoping to get some help from political game creators in the UK - watch this space!

What happens after the event?

We'll be collecting the different games on a itch.io page so they're easy to find, we're hoping to promote and spread the games so many people can experience them.

Ownership of the games?

All games and content produced during Repeal Jam event remains the full property of their creators. Repeal Jam makes no claim to anything participants create. When you take part in Repeal Jam events you own everything you create.

All trademarks remain property of their respective owners.