Guts for Glory Game Summit
Jeffrey
Pixel Arts presents
Guts for Glory
A Gaming for Social Good Summit
Make games to benefit Donate Life Northwest and
save lives through organ, eye and tissue donation.
Thursday Oct. 18th to Sunday Oct. 21st, 2012
Supported by
The Portland Indie Game Squad,
Game It Forward, Portland Games for Change, and PAGDIG.
Schedule of Events
Opening Panel
6-7:30pm, Thursday October 18th
"Collaborative Game Development for Non-Profit and Non-Governmental Organizations"
Presenters: Valerie Egan, Brandon Bozzi, Corvus Elrod, David Galiel and Wolfgang Wozniak
Hosted by the 4th Annual Emergent Learning Commons conference
The University of Oregon's White Stag Building
70 NW Couch St., Portland, OR 97209
A seperate registration is required for the panel.
Please register@http://elcommons.org/oied-2012-registration-form
How can we create community based game development for social good? Hackathons and game jams often suffer from top-down approaches led by technology rather than the needs of users and clients. We flip this by inviting NPOs and NGOs to share their missions, goals and challenges; and, one of our case studies comes from Donate Life Northwest, an organ donation non-profit seeking to update their video game Scalpel Pal.
Our panel explores ways to approach the challenges of these NPOs and NGOs through game-based design perspectives. In doing so, they discuss how we can leverage community to crowdsource solutions through game jams and other social practices for collaboration. Following the conference, we will be hosting a 3 day startup game jam to develop games tailored to the needs of participating organizations.
Startup Game Jam
Build teams and move from concept to prototype in 3 days.
Friday October 19th, 6-10pm
Saturday October 20th, 9am-5pm
Sunday October 21st, 9am-7pm
Hosted by ISITE Design
2030 NW Pettygrove Street
Portland, OR 97209
Parking available across the street in bays 35 and higher only. Additional street parking is available.
Light breakfast and full lunch will be provided. Please select dietary needs on your checkout registration.
Donate Life Northwest is a 501(c)(3) non-profit dedicated to saving and enhancing lives through organ, eye and tissue donation.
For more information, goto http://www.donatelifenw.org/
In a 20-hour challenge, you will work with fellow game developers to create a game prototype for the purpose of furthering the goals of a Portland nonprofit organization!
We will be working with Donate Life Northwest for this game summit. Participating developers will be creating a game prototype dedicated to aiding the mission of this organ donor registry nonprofit, the goals of which are outlined in the immediate link!http://www.donatelifenw.org/content/what-we-do
This Game Jam will be focused on creating a deliverable for Donate Life in the long run; the event will be set in a production environment, allowing developers to consider aspects of game development such as budgeting, client input, marketing, and their own quality of life on a day-to-day basis. That being said, production managers, marketers, and advertising agents are welcome to sign up as participants!