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 ===== What are Regions? ===== ===== What are Regions? =====
-Game event organizers, curators, and developers share a common interest in generating or crafting experiences. That's why they share, preserve or create what they identify as important, directing it towards an audience that is associated with an specific area, division or group, located through the world or within a country. This is the tradional concept associated with a Region. The task of delimiting the regional scope of a Game event can be complemented by considering the following Terms of Reference:+ 
 +Game event organizers, curators, and developers share a common interest in generating or crafting experiences. That's why they share, preserve or create what they identify as important, directing it towards an audience that is associated with an specific area, division or group, located through the world or within a country. This is the tradional concept associated with a Region. The task of delimiting the regional scope of a Game event can be complemented by considering the following terms of reference:
  
 ===== Purpose and Value: There’s no “Where” without asking "Why"===== ===== Purpose and Value: There’s no “Where” without asking "Why"=====
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 ===== Relationships and Identity: Enhance the regional experience ===== ===== Relationships and Identity: Enhance the regional experience =====
  
-Just as the perception of the value and significance of an experience can vary according to the Region to which an audience belongs, the regional context has a great influence on the construction of individual identity. So it is assumed naturally and unconsciously that people represent their own region to the rest of world, from what they do and say, especially in artistic or creative contexts.+Just as the perceived value and significance from an event experience can vary according to the Region to which an audience belongs, the regional context has a great influence on the construction of individual identity. So it is assumed naturally and unconsciously that people represent their own Region to the rest of world, from what they do and say, especially in artistic or creative contexts.
  
-Another way to enrich the experience of your event is meeting, sharing or inviting people of diferent Regions, who may have a common purpose and who, under a scheme of mutual benefit, can get involved as special exhibitors, collaborators, strategic allies, organizers, associates or even sponsors. This will give a distinctive socio-cultural value to your event, generated by their personal experiences from other Regions and the cultural exchange with your audience.+Another way to enrich the experience of your event is meeting, sharing or inviting people from different Regions, who may have a common purpose and who under a scheme of mutual benefit can get involved as exhibitors, collaborators, strategic allies, organizers, guests, associates or even sponsors. This will give a great and distinctive socio-cultural value to your event, thanks to the socio-cultural exchange.
  
  
 ===== Everything is connected: Communities and Networks around purpose as a model to act locally and think globally ===== ===== Everything is connected: Communities and Networks around purpose as a model to act locally and think globally =====
  
-The figure of “Communities” around Games and Arts allow the exchange between audiences that share the same purpose, as well as collectively nourishing the transfer and generation of specialized knowledge or experiences within the same Region. The Communities tend to operate locally or on a reduced scale, and even so, they are able to create links or affiliations with other Communities that belong to Regions set in different frontiers.+Game arts communities allow the exchange between audiences that share the same purpose, as well as collectively nourishing the transfer and generation of specialized knowledge or experiences within the same Region. The Communities tend to operate locally or on a reduced scale, and even so, they are able to create links or affiliations with other Communities that belong to Regions set in different frontiers.
  
-Links between Communities are what motivates the figure of “Networks” to emerge. These allow the expanse of territorial borders and can define a shared framework of action over a specific purpose that Communities or Organizations could assume, support or identify with. An example of this, is the [[https://gameartsinternational.network/|Game Arts International Network (GAIN)]], whose purpose is the interconnection of Game Arts organizations, nurturing new structures in emerging regions and allowing the exchange and generation of specialized knowledge about art and games around the world.+Links between Communities are what motivates the figure of “Networks” to emerge. These allow the expanse of territorial borders and can define a shared framework of action over a specific purpose that Communities or Organizations could assume, support or identify with. An example of this, is the** Game Arts International Network** (GAIN)[[https://gameartsinternational.network/ | (gameartsinternational.network)]], whose purpose is "the interconnection of Game Arts organizations, nurturing new structures in emerging regions and allowing the exchange and generation of specialized knowledge about art and games around the world"(([[https://gameartsinternational.network/ | GAIN's Website]] **Game Arts International Network**. Retrieved on May 2021.)). Other example is the** International Game Developers Association (IGDA)**[[https://www.igda.org/| (igda.org)]], that "supports and empowers game developers around the world in achieving fulfilling and sustainable careers."(([[https://igda.org/about-us/|IGDA's Website]] **International Game Developers Association**. Retrieved on May 2021.)).
  
 The interaction between Communities from different Regions of the world, under a shared framework promoted by an International Network that represents and integrates them, can be interpreted as a model to understand how global thoughts and common knowledge within the Network itself can generate a bidirectional and multidimensional exchange of value inclined towards mutual growth, with its member Communities that operate locally in select Regions. This is often known as “acting locally and thinking globally" or what is associated under the concept of Glocality. The interaction between Communities from different Regions of the world, under a shared framework promoted by an International Network that represents and integrates them, can be interpreted as a model to understand how global thoughts and common knowledge within the Network itself can generate a bidirectional and multidimensional exchange of value inclined towards mutual growth, with its member Communities that operate locally in select Regions. This is often known as “acting locally and thinking globally" or what is associated under the concept of Glocality.
  
-Another practical example of this is the [[https://instagram.com/laragamejam|Lara Game Jam]] community located in Barquisimeto, Lara, Venezuela, that organizes local game jams, talks, workshops and meetups to promote the culture of video Game Development in the Central-Western Region of the country. This Community was founded in 2019 as a result of the organization of a local and annual site for the international [[https://globalgamejam.org/|Global Game Jam]] event. This is a Game Development hackathon, that sets common parameters shared by all the event sites in the world, that motivates an exchange of knowledge and experiences between people from different Regions, but whose meeting point and core shared purpose is the interest in the creation of games under an experimental, collaborative and innovative scene. +Another practical example of this is the **Lara Game Jam** ([[https://instagram.com/laragamejam]]) community located in Barquisimeto, Lara, Venezuela, that organizes local game jams, talks, workshops and meetups to promote the culture of video Game Development in the Central-Western Region of the country to support the local and national game development scene. This Community was founded in 2019 as a result of the organization of a local and annual site for the international event by the name of **Global Game Jam** ([[https://globalgamejam.org/]]). This is a Game Development hackathon that sets common parameters shared by all the local event sites in the world, 
 +while motivating the global exchange of knowledge and experiences between people from different Regions. Its meeting point and core shared greater purpose is the the creation of games under experimental, collaborative and innovative scenes, as a case of acting in locally while thinking in a global proportion.
  
 Therefore, if you want to go further with the Regions of your exhibition or event, you could consider generating or affiliating with a Community around its theme and purpose that you have defined for it. This will not only allow you to meet and interact with more people in your Region with the same purpose, but will let you reach and cooperate with other Regions of the world through the consolidation and participation in related Networks. Therefore, if you want to go further with the Regions of your exhibition or event, you could consider generating or affiliating with a Community around its theme and purpose that you have defined for it. This will not only allow you to meet and interact with more people in your Region with the same purpose, but will let you reach and cooperate with other Regions of the world through the consolidation and participation in related Networks.
  
-|**NOTE**: I think this last topic is central to the main ideas I want to represent in the chapter, however it still can be summarized/ paraphrased a bit if you think it's needed. Thinking that a visual explanation could help in this case, maybe(? | 
 ==== Authors for this section: ==== ==== Authors for this section: ====
  
 Jose Luis Pacheco Boscan Jose Luis Pacheco Boscan
-==== Editors for this section: ==== 
  
-Add yourself if you edited something+==== Editors for this section: ====
  
 +Mer Grazzini
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