The game jam kicked off with a panel of narrative designers and game makers sharing their knowledge with the participants. The panelists included:

• • Golboo Amani is a multidisciplinary artist and her work creating the Settlers of Catan expansion pack Unsettling Settlers, highlighted how to create a game as a community-builder both through its creation and the act of play
  • Adam Clare is a professor of Game Design at Sheridan College and one of the founders of Board Game Jam.
  • Pam Punzalan wears many hats: writer, game designer, editor, authenticity reader, cultural consultant, and community builder. She builds tabletop and fictional worlds that speak her truths as a queer, Filipino woman. Her work in all these spheres has been nominated for awards.
  • Kimi Terasaki is a video game journalist and speculative fiction writer who investigates the need for diverse voices within video games and within creative fiction.

I functioned as curator and offered a curriculum and guide for the game jam participants as they navigated the narrative aspects of creating their games and building their worlds.

At the end of the jam, the completed games were showcased in an arcade-style exhibition. Games that were unable to be completed were still showcased by way of presenting a black screen and the text, “Undeliverable.” This act is inspired by Carmen Papalia’s curatorial practice showcased in the Undeliverable exhibition at Tangled Art + Disability in which any work that could not be completed in time for the show was given recognition by empty wall space as a way of showing solidarity for the humanity we often forget to bestow on our very mortal and very human fallible bodies.