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SenAm Games is developing Al-Sirah, a game that educates young muslims about the Islam

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Founded in 2018 by CEO Senad Hrnjadovic, SenAm Games is an independent game development studio based in Munich, Germany. By making Islamic history accessible, fun and educational, we aim to inspire the next generation to connect with their heritage, he says. And so, for Hrnjadovic, Al-Sirah is more than just a game.

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Playground fights led to the sister’s power house Blind Bend Studio

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Top image: Gnoumagbee and Teninke Camara Photo by David Gossard from Tribune de Lyon It’s 3 am, and while the world sleeps, a creative force comes alive in the heart of Teninke Camara , the brilliant Creative Director and Founder of Blind Bend Studio. said Teninke. We are a great pair. We’ve pitched the game all around the world.

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Column Tomas Sala • Art schools should educate designers, not production drones

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Now that the games industry has witnessed more than 9.000 layoffs this year, we have to seriously reconsider how the educational system is operating. I strongly disagree with the perspective that game development education should focus on AAA jobs. It’s not as if ‘24 is painting studios and publishers in a kinder light.

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Epic Games introduces new cycle-based submission process for MegaGrants

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There have been past criticisms regarding the long wait times studios faced before learning whether their project would receive funding. Since its launch in 2019, the initiativeoriginally backed by a $100 million fundhas supported a wide range of creators, from indie game developers to open-source toolmakers and film studios.

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For Students and Educators: The Launch of Exclusive Academic Subscription

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And for the mentors, guides, and inspirers — yes, you, the educators — this is your chance to light up your classrooms with the spark of innovation and see your name up there, not in lights, but in the gratitude-filled credits of your students' first big hits.

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Passionate Resilience: The Rise of Pineapple on Pizza Studios with Kushal Sithlu

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This couldn’t be truer for Kushal Sithlu , CEO of the South African studio Pineapple on Pizza. Today, his award-winning studio, just a year old, has been a part of the prestigious Google Indie Games Accelerator and the Creation Africa Program. I think I would have ended up in educational games at the very least.”

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Yep I'm at GDC 2025 (links / presskit / dance card)

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I'm also speaking at GDC about the difficulty of teaching level design and writing The Level Design Book , now a top search result and community resource used in multiple schools and studios. TUESDAY: My "Teaching (and Rethinking) Level Design" microtalk is part of the Educators Summit: Educators Soapbox session. social event.