Welcome to the GSE Identity Jam! 

Create a game that explores the meaning of identity! Express your own identity through your game, explore different identities or think of how you can implement diversity in game design and mechanics!  

The GSE Identity Jam is part of a class taught at the Game Studies and Engineering Master's program in Austria, Klagenfurt. The class is called "Selected Topics in Game Engineering focusing on Issues in Gender Studies: Mechanics of Identity" and is focused on exploring various aspects of identity and promoting diversity within the games industry. However, everyone is welcome to participate!

This Jam takes place in person in Klagenfurt, Austria. It is held in cooperation with the Global Campus Online Project (GLOCO) and GEPARD – The Global Education Project Award, funded by GENE.

Check out our diversifiers (feel free to use them as inspiration, but they are not mandatory!)

• Telling my story 

• Telling the story of a loved one

• What I struggle with

• Walking in someone else‘s shoes / Switching roles

• 'Where I come from,...'

• A diverse cast of characters

• Choices matter

• Gameplay / Story changing depending on the character you play as

• Celebrating difference
  

Hope you enjoy jamming! We can't wait to see your awesome games! <3

Check out what our participants thought about the game jam!