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

​Join us as we launch the Mod Jam series at Newspeak House with Mod Jam #01 - DADA DOOM.

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

​Starting with the legendary DOOM (1993) and looking at its rich modding history, we will explore the alternative narratives that can break through the confines of a strict game environment.

​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 has shaped the industry from Counter-Strike (Half-Life mod) to Team Fortress (Quake), DOTA (Warcraft III), and PUBG (ARMA 2).

​Outline

• ​Recap on doom mod (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.