Free Knowledge and Game Design




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Summary: Game Jam: a concept that brings together game designers and game enthusiasts for anywhere between 24 and 72 hours with the purpose of planning, designing and creating a game. Since they started more than a decade ago, Game Jams have been going on regularly, all over the world often with specific themes. More Recently at Wikimedia deutschland in Berlin, there was the Free Knowledge Game Jam; were participants were once again challenged to create a game - only their games should make use of publicly accessible free and open licensed data and tools. A concept with far reaching impact, ot only for game makers but for society as a whole. Today on the program, we’re walking around the Free Knowledge Game Jam learning about these talented participants and their unique projects.