Calendar An icon of a desk calendar. Cancel An icon of a circle with a diagonal line across. Caret An icon of a block arrow pointing to the right. Email An icon of a paper envelope. Facebook An icon of the Facebook "f" mark. Google An icon of the Google "G" mark. Linked In An icon of the Linked In "in" mark. Logout An icon representing logout. Profile An icon that resembles human head and shoulders. Telephone An icon of a traditional telephone receiver. Tick An icon of a tick mark. Is Public An icon of a human eye and eyelashes. Is Not Public An icon of a human eye and eyelashes with a diagonal line through it. Pause Icon A two-lined pause icon for stopping interactions. Quote Mark A opening quote mark. Quote Mark A closing quote mark. Arrow An icon of an arrow. Folder An icon of a paper folder. Breaking An icon of an exclamation mark on a circular background. Camera An icon of a digital camera. Caret An icon of a caret arrow. Clock An icon of a clock face. Close An icon of the an X shape. Close Icon An icon used to represent where to interact to collapse or dismiss a component Comment An icon of a speech bubble. Comments An icon of a speech bubble, denoting user comments. Comments An icon of a speech bubble, denoting user comments. Ellipsis An icon of 3 horizontal dots. Envelope An icon of a paper envelope. Facebook An icon of a facebook f logo. Camera An icon of a digital camera. Home An icon of a house. Instagram An icon of the Instagram logo. LinkedIn An icon of the LinkedIn logo. Magnifying Glass An icon of a magnifying glass. Search Icon A magnifying glass icon that is used to represent the function of searching. Menu An icon of 3 horizontal lines. Hamburger Menu Icon An icon used to represent a collapsed menu. Next An icon of an arrow pointing to the right. Notice An explanation mark centred inside a circle. Previous An icon of an arrow pointing to the left. Rating An icon of a star. Tag An icon of a tag. Twitter An icon of the Twitter logo. Video Camera An icon of a video camera shape. Speech Bubble Icon A icon displaying a speech bubble WhatsApp An icon of the WhatsApp logo. Information An icon of an information logo. Plus A mathematical 'plus' symbol. Duration An icon indicating Time. Success Tick An icon of a green tick. Success Tick Timeout An icon of a greyed out success tick. Loading Spinner An icon of a loading spinner. Facebook Messenger An icon of the facebook messenger app logo. Facebook An icon of a facebook f logo. Facebook Messenger An icon of the Twitter app logo. LinkedIn An icon of the LinkedIn logo. WhatsApp Messenger An icon of the Whatsapp messenger app logo. Email An icon of an mail envelope. Copy link A decentered black square over a white square.

Summer of Games: V&A Dundee brings down the curtain on four-month extravaganza with game design jam

Students from Abertay took to the City Square to launch the Summer of Games
Students from Abertay took to the City Square to launch the Summer of Games

V&A Dundee will bring down the curtain on a Summer of Games as it hosts its first ever game design jam, featuring creations inspired by the £80 million museum and its exhibitions.

Over three days, the venue will become a live design studio open to game makers, artists, programmers, musicians and sound designers as they are invited to work with Abertay University to create new projects inspired by V&A Dundee.

This could be a game based on Kengo Kuma’s famous architecture, the permanent Scottish Design Galleries, or the exhibition Videogames: Design/Play/Disrupt.

Dundee has been home to a four-month programme of events called the Summer of Games since May, with a range of talks, design competitions and family actitivies arranged to coincide with the popular V&A exhibition.

The game design jam is intended to be a finale to the summer of activity and will take place from September 6, with the public invited to visit the museum to play the prototype games from 2 to 6pm on September 8.

Joanna Mawdsley, head of learning at V&A Dundee, said: “Videogames: Design/Play/Disrupt has been a hugely exciting exhibition for us to put on, and visitors of all ages have had the opportunity to see behind-the-scenes of how games are made, from beautiful sketches to huge orchestral scores.

“For the final weekend we want to take this even further and working with Abertay University we’ll be welcoming game designers to create entirely new games in the museum over three days.

“V&A Dundee was created to showcase and inspire creativity, and I can’t think of a better way to celebrate the end of this wonderful exhibition than a huge game jam inspired by V&A Dundee.”

Clare Brennan, a lecturer in visual arts practice at Abertay University, hailed the game jam as the perfect way to bring to a close an exhibition which has “shone a light on what games and game design mean in the modern era“.

Abertay lecturer Clare Brennan

She said: “Our staff and students have been working hard to bring together this special celebratory game jam – a fitting way to bring the curtain down on the exhibition and Dundee’s city-wide Summer of Games programme.

“I’m looking forward to seeing how our jammers respond to the theme and would encourage anyone with an interest in videogame development to get involved.”

Summer of Games could ‘cement’ Dundee as international innovation hub and inspire budding local developers

The game jam will take inspiration from a quote by game creator and academic Frank Lantz which is featured at the start of the exhibition.

It states: “Making games combines everything that’s hard about building a bridge with everything that’s hard about composing an opera. Games are operas made out of bridges.”

Game makers can register for the deign jam as a group or join a team on the day. Free tickets are available at vam.ac.uk/dundee.