You’ll design and build your own board game that raises awareness about a real-world issue you care about — whether social, environmental, or cultural.

You’ll go through the full game design process: creating a concept, designing gameplay, and making your own pieces using tools like 3D printers and laser cutters. Your final game will not only be fun to play, but also spark important conversations and inspire change.

Studio Brief

Mock up Prototype

Final Prototype

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Studio Process

Final Project Expectations

؜Students will design and build a board game that raises awareness about a real-world issue — social, environmental, or cultural.

Students will use cardboard, paper, and digital fabrication tools like 3D printing or laser cutting to create custom game pieces and boards that bring their concept to life.

Your game should include a meaningful narrative, mechanics that support your cause, and opportunities for players to reflect, collaborate, or take action.

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Studio Skills

Collaboration

Concept Development

Lo-Fi Prototyping

Positive Impact

Game Design

Hi-Fidelity prototyping

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Understand the importance of the grid and infrastructure.

Help people who suffer from Chromophobia

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Project Examples

؜Green War is a strategy cooperative yet competitive board game that mirrors the real world race toward renewable energy. Players take on the role competing with a shared mission of reducing global pollution. Building and upgrading green power plants earns players but collective success depends on how well everyone limits environmental damage. By blending strategy with collaboration, Green War turns climate awareness into an engaging and educational experience.

؜Light It Up! is an educational board game that combines interactive gameplay with Arduino-based electronics to teach players about e-waste management and energy efficiency. By moving through four zones, Collection, Hazard, Innovation, and Processing, players experience the challenges and rewards of sustainable practices.

؜Play Prosperity is a social-board game inspired by Qatar’s National Vision 2030. Through Introducing the concept of "Comprehensive Development", the players will engage in different roles through the historical world of the game and by dynamic interactions with the board, they strive to establish the 4 main pillars of social, human, economic and environmental development.

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؜Teach Syrian the Turkish language (Basics of chemistry, science, ...)

؜Learn about the process of recycling and the impacts of man-made waste

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