A ‘life-changing’ Sheffield project in which young people seeking sanctuary created video games is the focus of a new exhibition.
Children aged between eight and 14 developed two game concepts over a year-long initiative with Stand & Be Counted Theatre , the UK’s first theatre company of sanctuary, Sheffield’s National Videogame Museum and BIOME Collective. ‘Playing with Power’ charts the process of their innovative work, from drawing initial concepts, characters and missions on paper to designing video sequences and soundtracks online.
Both games were team-based and in stark contrast to many popular solo-player video games on the market. Rosie MacPherson, Artistic Director and joint CEO at campaign-led SBC, said the choice of concepts was interesting. She said: “It is interesting that the games young people came up with are so different from Call of Duty and other war-based games. “That was a conversation we had at the start, that there is too much glorification of war in video games.
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