Introduction to the Cultural Game Jam Kits

The 4 EPIC-WE Cultural Game Jam Kits offer a comprehensive, practical pathway for designing and facilitating Cultural Game Jams across contexts, sectors, and communities. Cultural Game Jams are structured, co-creative events in which young people design and prototype games inspired by cultural heritage, values, and societal questions. They bring together creative practice, cultural exploration, and active participation, inviting youth not only to engage with culture but also to shape and reinterpret it through game-making.

1. Cultural Game Jam Kit Core Framework
2. Cultural Game Jam Kit Expansion Pack
3. Cultural Game Jam Kit Capacity Building
4. Cultural Game Jam Kit Facilitator’s Handbook

Across the four kits, you will find a shared approach that blends clarity with creativity. Participants explore cultural materials such as artworks, archives, stories, and places, and transform them into interactive experiences. In doing so, they develop cultural imagination, express identities, and engage with the values and questions that shape society. Cultural Game Jams create spaces to explore, question, and remake culture, while game-making becomes a method for learning, collaboration, and innovation. The overarching aims of Cultural Game Jams are to support youth’s empowered participation in culture through game-making and game innovation, both for and through culture, through a structured – though flexible – CGJ process model.

Each kit supports different approaches to EPIC-WE Cultural Game Jams. Together, they form a coherent suite of processes and materials that spans structured frameworks and flexible, youth-driven formats, and from hands-on capacity building to confident facilitation. Whether you are establishing your first Cultural Game Jam or expanding existing practices across partnerships and contexts, the kits provide clear guidance, adaptable tools, and proven methods to support meaningful, inclusive, and impactful cultural co-creation.