​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