​Seize the mechanics of your games, join the Mod Jam movement!

​Join us for the second event in the Mod Jam series at Newspeak House with Mod Jam #02 - ToxiCity.

​The Mod Jam series demonstrates how re-purposing, remixing, expanding and hi-jacking existing games can be channeled for collective expression.

​Staying with the legendary Doom (1993) and building upon our experiences from previous sessions, we will explore the alternative narratives that can break through the confines of Doom's strict yet open game environment. Can Doomguy address contemporary toxicity while operating radioactive waste facilities?

​Modding allows us to reclaim agency. It is an act of opening possibilities within an existing system, to change a world using its own rules and constraints - performance applied to gameplay. As a community-led practice to appropriate, tweak, expand and improve the medium, modding can help us free the creative genie from the gaming industry's bottle.

​Outline

• ​Recap on modding and Doom (we are planning a workshop event dedicated to this prior to this event too)

• ​Brainstorming

• ​Jam

• ​Presentations

​Checklist

• ​No programming skills required as basic modding (assets/textures) is done through file-swapping into packages that we can run through pre-installed software

• ​Computer (If you don't have a computer, think about how you could collaborate with the other people. Drawing on paper? Writing? Sound making?, etc.)

• ​If you can, you can pre-install ZDOOM and Slade in advance.

• ​You can also install a DOOM level builders such as Ultimate Doom Builder. (For Mac, Eureka seems to work kind of OK)

• ​You could also get a WAD file such as FREEDOOM but for this, you can wait until the event

• ​We're planning to organise a separate workshop event before this. The date is to be announced but you could plan to attend that one too sometime the week before the jam

​​Please note that we won't be providing food so feel free to bring your own and there will be plenty of food options nearby.