Marie’s Design Jam is a 2-day workshop aimed at finding and iterating on new game ideas – like a Game Jam, but on paper. The bootcamp teaches participants step by step how to build a creative framework, and then use it as a northern star to extrapolate a feature set. The first day starts with an inspirational keynote about how to ’find the fun’ and ideas that stick, and then goes onto having participants flesh out their idea to design pillars. They then continue to immerse and describe the player experience they are looking for. On the second day, the participants get the expand their creative vision into feature sets, before diving down and learning about the very building blocks of game design and crafting their own core gameplay. They then learn how to lay out and design their own mock-up Steam page to illustrate the game on release. The jam ends with each group presenting their Steam pages and showing how they envision their full game to look like!