According to Wikipedia, a game jam is a gathering of people for the purpose of planning, designing, and creating one or more games within a short span of time, usually ranging between 24 and 72 hours. Participants are generally made up of programmers, game designers, artists, writers, and others in game development-related fields.

• October 27, 2017.  6PM - 10PM. Orientation, team registration, keynote
• October 28, 2017 9 AM through October 29, 1 PM - Game Jam
• Complete schedule is available at https://pittgames4health.com/schedule/

Games4Health is open to any university student 18 years of age or older.

Design and develop a serious or a transformational digital game that addresses critical issues in one of the following areas:

• Asthma
• Cancer
• Depression, anxiety
• Eating disorders
• Diabetes self-management
• Autism
• Learning disorders
• Medication abuse
• Epilepsy or other seizure disorders
• Food allergies
• Inflammatory bowel disease
• Obesity
• Organ transplant
• Sickle cell disease
• Stuttering

$4,250 in prizes

• Games4Health is open to any university student 18 years of age or older.
• Teams must be comprised of 3-5 graduate or undergraduate student-members
• Teams must be cross-disciplinary and have at least one:
  • Computer science, Information sciences, or Engineering student
  • A Health Sciences student (dental, medicine, nursing, pharmacy, public health, or rehabilitation sciences)
  • Business student
• We encourage participants to form teams prior to Games4Health kick-off date.  If you are looking for teammates, please post the following information about yourself on our Facebook group (https://www.facebook.com/groups/1953854054871443/):
  • Your name
  • University
  • Major
  • Degree
  • Email address
  • Which overarching theme you are interested in
  • What skills will you bring to the team

You can register for Games4Health 2017 through https://pittgames4health.com/registration/

• Relevance / Usefulness
  
• Innovation
  
• Fun factor
  
• Quality of Implementation