Humanos, an organization that brings multi-disciplinary teams from industry, academia, government, and not-for-profit sectors to co-design innovative and sustainable solutions, came to us with a unique project: guide a team of Montreal youth in designing a game to address vaccine hesitancy in their community.

There were a lot of challenges: a short timeline, an extremely ambitious youth team who dreamed of making a blockbuster game, and a secondary goal of teaching the team how to make games.

Even with the accelerated timeline we were able to give several classes about game design, have the youth create stories and art, and implement their work into a final small game to show off in the community.