Simon Karman

Cloud Consultant and Game Developer

Teamzania Enterprise Yourself

The prototype game I created at the Utrecht University in collaboration with the HKU for Plan International for the unemployed youth in Tanzania.

Published on 2015-12-20

Created by Simon Karman, Jochem van der Lof, Suus Looijen, Thomas Groot Zwaaftink and Jasper Hutte

At the Utrecht University I collaborated with the HKU (Hogeschool van de Kunsten Utrecht) in Hilversum to create a prototype game for the unemployed youth in Tanzania.

Plan International asked us to come up with a way to turn the current classical way of teaching the unemployed youth in Tanzania to learn about entrepreneurship into a playful and fun learn experience.

Teamzania Team

We created a lot concepts based on themes we came up with, visited Tanzania, presented to Plan in Mwanza, went on a safari in the Serengeti Safari Park, had three meetings with VSLA groups in and around Mwanza, visited a business school, came up with a final concept, play-tested with a paper prototype, worked really hard on creating an android app, held a conference talk at Afrikaday 2015 in Amsterdam, had a feedback session with the Online Review Board of Plan in 5 different countries, play tested the android game via Skype with our target audience in Mwanza, presented our work at Plan Netherlands, showcased our game at the HKU Showcase, had a newspaper article written about us, and a lot more ...

and this all happend in under three months time!

You can watch a 14 min demonstration of our game at the following youtube video:

Youtube Video Enterprise Yourself

The download links provides you with a presskit of our project. Including ingame screenshots, logo's and the ingame music and soundtrack especially created for this game!

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