Village Builder
Village Builder is a real-time strategy, village construction management game for school children in Sub-Saharan Africa. The game features prosocial objectives with cognitive reasoning and planning goals.
The game serves as an alternative to traditional computerized cognitive rehabilitation therapy (CCRT), like Brain Powered Games 2.0. It is being used with HIV inflected children in Malawi and Uganda and is currently in a clinical research trial to gauge effectiveness.
The game is part of a suite of cognitive training games developed by the Games for Entertainment and Learning (GEL) Lab at Michigan State University and supported by a grant from the National Institute of Health.
Game Development Team:
Production
Brian Winn: Executive Producer
Mikayla Miklasz
Bilal Saqib
Programming
Shawn Pryde
Joe Sak
David Robitaille
Joe Daprai
Kathryn Nagy
Keith Lerner
Design
Amanda Hackbardt
Aaron Solon
Connor Miller
Ben Barber
Sound Design
Austin Wilson
Gaby Bendtsen
Isaac Houston
Lyndsay Mohr
Art
Tatum Cho
Mackenzie O’Connell
Rhian Perry
Rein Acevedo
Sydney Kitchen
Alan Ramirez
Release Date: In Development
