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 journalismLast 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 interac