- 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
Inclusive Storytelling
Shadow Game
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.
