What do you need for a Game Design Summer Camp?

Lego! Lots of Lego.

Today our colleague Rob Tieben travels to Brazil with only his cap and tons of Lego in his suitcase. What else do you need besides endless creativity and a motivation for making games?!

We will inspire, teach, learn, cry, laugh, smile, run, build, draw, write, think and publish educational games with 40 kids and 12 teachers in Rio de Janeiro Favela.

Author: Jurriaan van Rijswijk

Jurriaan van Rijswijk is Applied Game Architect for 25 years. He develops game strategies and designs behavior change with games for among others healthcare professionals, therapies for patients with chronic illnesses, mental and emotional health therapies, lifestyle interventions and rehabilitation. He developed and produced hundreds of applied games and game concepts. Many of his games won various awards and/or are clinically and/or scientifically validated. Furthermore, Jurriaan is founder and chairman of the Games for Health Europe Foundation. The Games for Health Europe Foundation is the largest worldwide networking ecosystem of people, companies and institutes for research, development and implementation of games within the health ecosystem. In 2014 Jurriaan won the ICT Personality of the Year Award. This award is an acknowledgement for a person who stimulate and impactful applies and implements the use of ICT for the benefit of profit and non-profit organizations as well as governmental organisations.

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