Girl's Game Jam (Middle and High School Girls)
Fri, Mar 27
|University of Memphis Research Park
Time & Location
Mar 27, 2020, 6:00 PM – Mar 29, 2020, 10:00 PM
University of Memphis Research Park, 460 S Highland St, Memphis, TN 38111, USA
About the event
Over the course of 3 days, on the weekend of Friday, March 27 (6-9pm), Saturday, March 28 (10am-5:00pm), Sunday, March 29th, 30 middle-high school girls will meet at the University of Memphis Research Park to learn how to build and create games that have a social impact.
On the first day they will be exposed to the idea that games can be designed to have a social impact. We will teach the girls how to use TyranoBuilder (visual novel software), assign them a group, and then give them time to create an app geared towards a social cause. The girls will break up into groups of 2-4 and work as a team. As a team, they will collaborate, problem-solve, delegate roles and responsibilities to each member.
On Saturday, the teams will spend most of their time working on building and developing their games. Throughout the day there will be short…