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    Inclusive Storytelling

    Shadow Game

    By Little Chicken Game Company, Happy Volcano and Prospektor

    Shadow Game is a coming-of-age story, a journey through the shadow side of Europe with underage refugees as our guides.

    Every day, young people traveling alone try to cross life-threatening borders in Europe, looking for protection and a better life. They travel through a shadow world we do not know: minefields, bears, fast-flowing rivers, smugglers and border guards. At the risk of their own lives, the teenagers make the crossing, which they themselves call the game. Meanwhile, they grow up at lightning speed.

    Shadow Game is a project of Eefje Blankevoort & Els van Driel. It consists of a feature-length documentary, a web series, an adventure game, and a photo series in collaboration with Cigdem Yuksel, which starts out as an engaging journey and ends with the understanding that real teens are taking life-threatening risks and go through almost surreal hardships.

    Sami is the 15-year-old main character of Shadow Game. Streetwise and resourceful, he has left his poor, war-torn home country to find safety and a better future. During the course of the game, he transforms from a naive boy into an adolescent, maturing fast in this harsh world. In Shadow Game, players get to experience his story.

    The documentary will premiere at the 2020 IDFA.

    With Shadow Game, we want to make sure that part of the proceedings of the game also flow back to helping these young immigrants. We view this as an essential element of making this game and telling their story.

    Furthermore, we think this story will resonate with an audience that is close in age to the subjects of this game and documentary. In our approach for the development, we want to secure a budget for the vertical slice in order to apply for further funding. Also of note is that part of the development budget will be doubled by the Belgian Government.

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    Credits

    • Game
    • Story by
      Niels ‘t Hooft
      Little Chicken Game Company
    • Project Lead
      Yannis Bolman
    • Programming
      Bas Roding
    • Art
      Rutger Stegenga
      Tobias van der Meer
    • Sound Design
      Senne de Jong
    • Happy Volcano
    • Creative Director
      David Prinsmel
    • Lead Developer
      Peter Maasen
    • Business Development
      Jeroen Janssen
    • General game Consultancy
      Ellis Barthelomeus
    • Documentary
    • Research by 
      Eefje Blankevoort
      Els van Driel
      Zuhoor Al Qaisi
    • Directed 
      Eefje Blankevoort
      Els van Driel
    • Interactive Direction 
      Sara Kolster
    • Camera 
      Ton Peters
    • Online concept 
      Eefje Blankevoort
      Sara Kolster
    • Montage 
      Patrick Schonewille
    • Production 
      Laura Verduijn for Prospektor
      Iris Lammertsma
      Femke de Wild for Witfilm
    • Photography 
      Cigdem Yuksel
    • Art work
      Aimée de Jongh
    • Design 
      Hamid Sallali
    • Impact Team 
      Tina Farifteh
      Nienke Huitenga
      Lara Aerts
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