Global game making competition aimed at 8-18 year olds announces winners of competition to create best game that imagines a future with access to clean water.
The winners of the Mobo Game Jam, a global game making competition encouraging 8-18 year olds to design games imagining a future where everyone has access to clean water, have been announced.
The jam, which was created in partnership between Digital Schoolhouse, edu360, Into Games, Kucheza Gaming and WaterAid, encouraged young people fro
m across the world to create prototype games digitally or on paper.
Over 1000 registrations from the UK and Nigeria were whittled down to 12 finalists, with submissions competing in a range of age groups in the final showcase on Monday 22nd March.
And while every game in the final showcase shone, the following games emerged as the global winners from the public vote – which attracted over a thousand responses – within each of the following age groups.
- 8-11 year olds – Mmesoma, for their game Water Allies
- 12-14 year olds– Samuel, for their game Race to Water
- 15-18 year olds – Obi, for their game Aqua
Winners will receive a series of prizes including a range of dedicated game laptops and Amazon vouchers.
“The range of games submitted to the Mobo Game Jam was outstanding,” said Shahneila Saaed, Head of Education for Ukie and Director of Digital Schoolhouse. “To see so many creative concepts tackling an issue of such importance flood in from around the world was genuinely inspiring and we’d like to thank everyone who took part.”
The theme of the Mobo Game Jam is also inspiring the theme this year’s Ukie Student Game jam, which takes place as usual during the London Games Festival. It commences today, with teams across the UK creating their games in the next 24 hours.
