Grendel Games (Netherlands) have been making serious games since 1999!
Jan-Jaap Severs is visiting us again next week for a guest lecture on serious games and the challenges inherent to the production and design of these types of games. Jan-Jaap is one of the co-founders of Grendel Games, a studio that’s been producing validated and commercially successful serious games for twenty years now! That is a lot of experience to be listening in on.
Time: 10:00-12:00, Thu 14th March
Place: E22, Campus Gotland
“Dealing with stakeholders, requirements and evidence in serious games development”
During this lecture we will discuss several aspects that make serious game design and development a challenging endeavor.
We will look at managing stakeholders and domain experts with different backgrounds, who speak totally different languages. We will investigate methods of gathering requirements from these stakeholders and the common obstacles we face during that process. Finally, we will discuss the gathering and dissemination of scientific evidence of the effect of a serious game and how we can prepare for this during the design phase.
The lecture will be structured around three in-depth examples in the fields of surgery training, behavioral change pertaining to water consumption and mathematics training for children with learning disabilities.
Time: 10:00-12:00, Thu 14th March
Place: E22, Campus Gotland
Please note: students taking the Serious Games class must be given priority. There are only ~20 free seats available, so guests have to be prepared to sit in the stairs!
Questions? Contact the course responsible; Ernest Adams.