Press start: how to write a newsgame

Next week the Guardian is co-hosting a newsgame jam at the Rezzed games festival. Here are a few pointers for anyone new to interactive journalism

Last year in Germany, the games studio A Good Evil got together with the Cologne game lab to organise a two-day newsgame hack. Media companies from all over Europe were invited over to join coders, form teams and create short, simple video games around current affairs issues. The Guardian was there, joining in with the fascinating experiment in interactive journalism.

This year, we're going a step further, teaming up with the Rezzed games festival to help run and judge a news game jam. Taking place in London next week, the jam will run over the course of the event, challenging teams to design games, based around a story from Thursday's paper. We'll then take a look at the entries on Friday, with judges from co-sponsor Creative Assembly as well as the Guardian.