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Description: Personal portfolio page featuring a selection of the game projects Joeri has worked on.
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In Sheep Herders players each control a dog connected by a rope. By coordinating each other's movement they need to use the rope to herd sheep back into the pen.
Sheep Herders was originally designed as part of a gamejam organized by the Games[4...] organisation and a mental health clinic(GGZ) in Eindhoven. The game aims to stimulate youth with behavioral disorders that come from a very problematic living environment to develop more of an eye for the effects of their actions on others. By playing the game they have to communicate if they intend to progress, else their movement will be hindered by the other player. Since failure is a problematic thing for this youth,
After we applied some polish during a second Jam, the game was exhibited at the Games4Health conference 2014 in Utrecht and was received well by those attending the conference, it even got a small segment on a local news show 'Toekomst Makers'(01:59) . Ever since, the team which consists of graduates of the Utrecht School of the Arts, Fontys and NHTV, has had other priorities but the intention exists to develop the game into a fun chaotic multiplayer experience. Since the Jam a versus mode has also been add
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