Background: Game-making has the potential to foster cultural participation and empowerment, yet its role as a form of culture- making remains underexplored. Existing approaches to cultural engagement often overlook the creative and participatory pos- sibilities of game-making for addressing pressing …

In this paper, we present a multiple-site case study to illustrate the similarities and differences in cultural game jam design with youth in situated research contexts. The aim is to provide the reader with an insight into the problem space, jam design, outcomes and opportunities of a set of linked, …