Guide to Game Jam hosting

Our association, PALO ALTOURS (Tours, France) has been organising Real World Gathering for Game Jams since 2016, as well as Startup Weekends and other Hackthons since 2014.

After 10 Startup weekend, 8 Game Jams and some more Hackathons, we now have some experience to share... So we have put together a guide.

Short version :

15 tips to host a successful and convivial Real World Gathering

Long and extensive version :

1. What is a Game Jam?
   
2. Before the event - Preparing and recruiting
3. During the event - Creating a comfortable and creative environment
4. During the event - Accompanying the participants to the success
5. During the event - Creating the emulation and the excitement
6. After the event - Nail your success
   

More information:

HitboxMakers page (the section of PALO ALTOURS organizing Game Jams) : https://hitboxmakers.itch.io/ 
Our discord : https://discord.gg/tMeZaps
Contact : hitbox@paloaltours.org