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If you are new to making games, or you want some options beyond pen and paper, consider checking some of these out:

• Twine
• Ren'Py
• Bitsy
• Puzzle Script
• GB Studio
• Decker
• Narrat
• Pocket Platformer
• plingpling
• Adventure Game Studio
• engine.lol
• bipsi
• Godot Engine

Additionally, if you are curious about the actual work and though that goes into game design, check out some of these materials:

• Game Design Workshop
• The Art of Game Design
• Rules of Play
• Games, Design and Play

For a friendly local game development community in Gothenburg, check out: https://www.gamedevgbg.com

Do you have any suggestions or recommendations related to any aspect of creating games of your own? Feel free to add them here!

The theme of this game jam is to freely interpret its title, "Game Jam for Palestine". Feel free to use this game jam to explore and express your own relationship to Palestine, its occcupation and struggle for liberation and its international solidarity movement in Gothenburg and beyond. You could create an educational retelling about one or more historical events, an intimate reflection on personal experiences carried by you and people you know, or an interactive guide and call to collective action and organizing. It is also always an option to freely create a game with its own themes or topics, and taking this game jam as simply an opportunity to come together with others in solidarity with Gaza and all of Palestine.

Some potential sources of inspiration and information:

• Decolonize Palestine
• Uncivilized Media
• Electronic Intifada
• Mondoweiss
• Al-Shabaka: The Palestinian Policy Network
• Institute for Palestine Studies
• The Palestine Chronicle
• Al-Haq
  

Games, game bundles and other game related resources:

• Palestine Skating Game Prototype (newest)
• Poems for Palestine
• Every Time the Media Lies A Neighborhood in Gaza Dies
• Being
• A Palestine game collection on Itch
• Global Game Jam 2016 Palestine
• Global Game Jam 2017 Palestine
• Global Game Jam 2018 Palestine
• Global Game Jam 2019 Palestine
• Palestinian Relief Game Bundle
• Indie Game Bundle for Palestine
• TTRPG Bundle for Palestine
• Brief article on the Palestinian games industry
• Video report on gamers expressing solidarity with Palestine
  
• Game Dev Succinctly Answers What the Games Industry Owes Palestinians
• A Message to the Video Game Industry
• The Games Industry Must Not Stay Silent on Palestine

Do you have any further suggestions or recommendations for resources for the game jam? Feel free to add them here!

At the venue, there will be a fundraising for the campaign by the association Björkåfrihet in solidarity with the Al-Awda hospital, one of the few still functioning hospitals in the Gaza strip despite severe damages and with ongoing work to expand their services during the ongoing genocide. For more information on the hospital and its work, make sure to have a look at their website and on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter/X.

Feel free to support any other relevant fundraiser in connection to this game jam. A good alternative is to help Palestinians in Gaza stay connected through eSims, check out these alternatives:

• Connecting Humanity
• Crips for eSims for Gaza
• Geeks keeping Gaza connected
• Gaza Online

Also consider donating to the project Life For Gaza by the municipality of Gaza to restore vital services such as water supply, waste management and sewage treatment.

Do you have any further suggestions or recommendations for fundraising? Feel free to add them here!

If you're looking for a group, try posting here! As a suggestion, include what skills, talents and competences you are bringing to a group.