Cover Image for Mod Jam #03 - ALT+CTRL DoomScroll Berlin edition
Cover Image for Mod Jam #03 - ALT+CTRL DoomScroll Berlin edition
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Mod Jam #03 - ALT+CTRL DoomScroll Berlin edition

Hosted by Nomi & 3 others
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About Event

📍Locations

On the 5th (Friday), we decided to go for a field trip to Sybil where they are opening their new showcase from 18:00.
So,
5 June (Fri): Sybil from 18:00. If you wanna congregate earlier, let us know.
6 June (Sat): A MAZE Shop-Gallery from 10:00 to 22:00. We'll aim to wrap up presentations at 20:00 and leave by 22:00 sharp.

You can read about the event at Sybil on their Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/p/DY5E3SbjvaX/?img_index=2

🐟 Hallo Leute

Join us for the third (fourth?) event in the Mod Jam series Berlin edition at A MAZE. Shop-Gallery with Mod Jam #03 - ALT+CTRL DoomScroll Berlin edition.

We started this episode of Mod Jam in London in the end of March. We share the same itch page and you can already see some submissions from the London edition. https://itch.io/jam/altctrl-mod-jam-03-doomscroll

​🐟 About Mod Jam #03

Introducing alternative controllers to the Doom modding experience, we will be modifying and repurposing the physical interfaces we handle to enter classic WADs — modified Doom worlds from the world’s largest modding library.

Doom piano, toasters, bedwetting alarm, conductive thread, breathing sensors and cameras… doomscrolling has never been so sensual!

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

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 let the creative genie out of the gaming industry's bottle.

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

🗓️ The game jam will take place on 5 & 6 June (Friday & Saturday) — please arrive on time as we'll be sharing critical information in the introduction.

⚠️ Important notice: Bring your own tools! We will provide some pieces (e.g. switches, breadboards, buttons, pis, arduinos) and we encourage you to bring your own tools. It can be custom controller specific tools such as microcontroller (arduino, esp32s, etc.), makey makey, etc. but you can also repurpose your everyday controllers (keyboard, mouse, gamepad, joycon, etc.) by introducing a new way to interact with them. Here are some examples for making alternative controllers using the ordinary items by Tatiana Vilela dos Santos: 1, 2.

​🕰️ Outline

· Recap on ALT-CTRL and Doom WADs

· Brainstorming

· Jam

· Presentations on 6 June (around 19:00–20:00)

​✅ 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

· Feel free to bring your own (safe!) alternative controllers in addition to the ones provided on site

​🐠 Other information

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.

We look forward to greeting you all at the A MAZE. Shop-Gallery!

Please arrive on time as we'll be sharing critical information in the introduction. We can always open the door to latecomers.

Location
A MAZE. Shop-Gallery
Greifswalder Str. 14, 10405 Berlin, Germany
Sybil on Friday (18:00), A MAZE. Shop-Gallery on Saturday (10-22:00)
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