The Hague University of Applied Sciences wants to create a Serious Game corner at its main campus in The Hague to showcase students’ work. The GameLab Arcade provides a blueprint. On Monday 8 September, a group of students came to GameLab in Zoetermeer to learn how this arcade works and get an introduction to game development more generally.
A group of 13 students will build one or more arcade cabinets to showcase work produced at THUAS. GameLab’s arcade is a good example, having been completed in the previous teaching period. It was not built from scratch, but acquired from Dutch Game Garden’s remaining assets and then refurbished and configured by Innovative Development students.
The GameLab Arcade features games made by students of the Game Development Minor, the Game Development graduation track and, of course, GameLab. Once the cabinets at the main campus are ready, these games should be playable there too, giving students’ work greater visibility and impact.
Lecturer Lucas Mastenbroek of TIS Communication, also a Future Urban Systems researcher, supervises the students and organised this exchange with GameLab.
Naturally, the cabinets in the National Videogame Museum’s mini arcade (the “Game Room”) were also thoroughly tested: research must be done properly, after all.
