Get ready for Board Game Jam 2023!
The theme reveal, brainstorming about silly game ideas, playing around with prototype cards and tokens and eventually seeing everything come together in an actual playable game. It's one of the best feelings in the world, and it's not much longer before we can experience it all again... So join us for the Board Game Jam 2023! We are going to create a positive and relaxed environment all geared towards developing your skills whether you are an absolute beginner trying to get off the ground or an accomplished designer about to move to the next level. The Board Game Jam is also a great place to meet other designers, play testers and other great people involved with the craft.
What is the Board Game Jam?
The theme reveal, brainstorming about silly game ideas, playing around with prototype cards and tokens and eventually seeing everything come together in an actual playable game. It's one of the best feelings in the world, and it's not much longer before we can experience it all again... So join us for the Board Game Jam 2023! We are going to create a positive and relaxed environment all geared towards developing your skills whether you are an absolute beginner trying to get off the ground or an accomplished designer about to move to the next level. The Board Game Jam is also a great place to meet other designers, play testers and other great people involved with the craft.
Our schedule can be summarized as: "Three Days of Creating Games".
How does it work
- Find a team! You can create a team beforehand, gather your team or join an existing team at the start of the jam. It is advised to have a team of around 4 members.
- Theme reveal. The jam will start with the revealing of the theme, the theme determines what your board game should be about. The theme serves as a guidance for your ideas and prevents participants to work out their ideas before the event.
- Start brainstorming. Come up with ideas, write them down, elaborate, collaborate.
- Work out your idea. Put it down on paper or in a digital document, work out the rules and details, start making the basic components of your game.
- Playtest your game. Start playing as soon as possible, only then will you know if your game works and if it is fun.
- Keep on improving. No game is perfect in the first run, improve, iterate, change the rules, add and drop rules. Make sure your gameplay is as smooth as possible.
