VoiceYourView Game Competition
The VoiceYourView Game Competition ran over the Weekend of the 19th and 20th November 2011 at Coventry University. 16 cross disciplinary students from across the country engaged in 4 teams to form and develop ideas for community engagement games. Structured exercises, presentations and feedback sessions on Saturday led to refining the games and finalising ideas on Sunday. Teams worked hard into the night over pizza getting ready to present to the prestigious judging panel on Sunday afternoon.
Final Judging Team:
- Richard Vahrman – Chief Operating Officer of LocoMatrix
- Les Wynn - Manager of Industrial Design, Human Factors and Product User Experience at Xerox
- Panos Petridis – Serious Games Institute Coventry University
- Prof Jon Whittle - Chair of Software Engineering School of Computing and Communications at Lancaster University
- Dr Therese Lawlor-Wright – Manchester University school of architecture and engineering
- Renato Kern - specialised in design strategy and character development
- Prof Jane Binner – Chair in Finance, Sheffield University
The games:
Cityshakers
Uplift
Trust
Empower Your View
The Results!
The judges retired for the difficult decision ion choosing the winner and runners-up of the competition. With only 3 prioze places for 4 teams te judges agonized over their decision. Eventually they presented their decision:
- Winner: Trust
- 1st runner-up: CityShakers
- 2nd runner-up: Uplift
