John,

Do you want to apply your creative skills and lived experience to develop new games that shift how our culture values care work and caregiving?

Diverse stories of care experiences in the media, on television, and other cultural mediums — like games — help shape our collective narratives around how we care for one another. Video games reach across all segments of our culture, and give people an opportunity to experience worlds and perspectives that are both familiar and new.

So what if, instead of transporting the player to outer space or the wild west, we could play video games that let us see the world through the eyes of someone with dementia, or save the planet as a queer disabled superhero whose sidekick is their caregiver?

Care Jam 2021 is setting out to do just that! Learn more here. [[link removed]]

We’re excited to be partnering with NDWA [[link removed]] , Code Coven [[link removed]] , and Counterpoints Arts [[link removed]] for Care Jam 2021, a weeklong hackathon-type experience for gaming.

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For the first time, game designers will join people with disabilities, aging adults, family caregivers, care workers, and other folks touched by care to design games that spotlight care. The Care Jam will help us reimagine a world where care is collective, visible, and valued.

Want to join? You still can! The Care Jam will run from December 2-9, and we’ll set you up with a team if you don’t already have one. Time commitment is whatever you’re able to give.

Sign up for Care Jam 2021 today! [[link removed]]

Beginners are welcome! There will be tutorial sessions, industry experts and sensitivity consultants available for mentorship and support, and a whole bunch of Care Jam resources at your disposal. Registration and participation is free, and the sessions will be hosted via Itch.io and Discord.

Participants will learn about harmful stereotypes that keep care — and the people doing it and receiving it — invisible and undervalued. Teams will learn how to challenge those narratives, and bring lived experiences of care into video and analog game prototypes to build game players’ empathy and understanding while increasing representation in the gaming industry.

Game jams encourage people with diverse skill sets and lived experiences to test out ideas and explore story-based gaming concepts to not only reimagine, but help build the caring world we want to live in.

I hope you will join us! You can read more and register here. [[link removed]] And be sure to follow along with #CareJam2021 on social media for updates!

With care,

Sarah Vitti, Culture Change Manager
Caring Across Generations

PS — Interested in how caregiving can shape game design, but not able to commit to the Care Jam? That’s ok! We’re hosting an exciting roundtable featuring leading game designers, culture change experts, people with disabilities, care workers and caregivers to discuss how storytelling through games can shift the culture around care. The roundtable is free to join and will take place on Monday, November 29 at 1pm Eastern / 10am Pacific. Sign up to attend the roundtable discussion here! [[link removed]]

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