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!

⚠️ 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 (from around 10:30–11:00am)

· Brainstorming

· Jam

· Presentations (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 Newspeak House!