Mod Jam #03 - ALT+CTRL DoomScroll
Join us for the third event in the Mod Jam series at Newspeak House with Mod Jam #03 - ALT+CTRL DoomScroll.
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.
This event will come in a twin edition with a sister event in Berlin at the A MAZE. Shop-Gallery in early June.
Seize the mechanics of your games, join the Mod Jam movement!
Outline
· Recap on ALT-CTRL and Doom WADs
· 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
· Feel free to bring your own (safe!) alternative controllers in addition to the ones provided on site
· Computer — if you don't have a computer, think about how you could collaborate with the other participants. Drawing on paper? Writing? Sound making? etc.
· You can pre-install ZDOOM and Slade in advance
· You can also install a DOOM level builders such as Ultimate Doom Builder
· You could also get a WAD file such as FREEDOOM but for this, you can wait until the event
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 Newspeak House!
Please arrive on time as we'll be sharing critical information in the introduction. We can always open the door to latecomers (the door to ring is 133 Bethnal Grn Rd).