i‘ve been holding regular workshops for kids and teenagers around the topics of gaming: artwork, design, logic, sound, storytelling, fun
in these workshops we do a lot of collaborative drawing to come up with interesting characters and ideas as a basis for the games we go on developing. i feel like thinking about characters is a great way to deal with identification and possibilities
Draw your Game!
the app ‘draw your game‘ allows you to paint your level in 4 colors, each with a specific property
Bloxels
another tool we’ve been using during the videogame workshops is Bloxels. it‘s basically an engine where you can draw and animate characters, backgrounds and assets in pixel art and work collaboratively on a platformer sort of game
Minecraft
Minecraft, or the open source alternative Minetest, have been a great experience, especially during Covid lockdowns, a game with so many possibilities allowed for several interesting workshops on the topics of worldbuilding, architecture and speculation.
all works were made by workshop participants; hosted at various youth houses and day care centers; sponsored by the ‘Stiftung digitale Spielekultur’
