GameBling Game Jam 2.0: The Writing Workshop

On the 11th and 12th of February 2023, Concordia University hosted the second edition of the GameBling Game Jam, one year after the successful first edition (Hoebanx et al., 2023).A game jam is an event during which individuals or teams attempt to create a game from scratch in a limited amount of time.A detailed explanation of game jams and a summary of the first edition can be found in Hoebanx et al. (2023).In Hoebanx et al. (2023), we argued that game jams can be used as an innovative research method "that can help uncover new ways to think about and question social science concepts."We put that idea to the test again in the second edition, with an added twist: we held a writing workshop after the event to which all jam participants were invited.Of the 16 original participants, 9 participated in the writing workshop.The primary goal was to encourage jam participants to reflect on and write about their experiences as game designers, aiming to gain insights into their thinking and design processes-something that last year's blog post was not able to achieve (Hoebanx et al., 2023).