Workshop on videogame creation for people with disabilities

December 16, 2011

Within the framework of the Inclusive Campus – Campus without Boundaries program, promoted by the Spanish Ministry of Education, the Fundación ONCE and the Fundación REPSOL, where UPC participates, professor Jesús Alonso, the director of the MA in Videogame Design and Creation, has lead a workshop on videogames to bring this discipline closer to young people with disabilities.

The workshop was attended by young people aged 13 to 16, studying ESO, from several parts of Spain, with different types of disabilities, physical and intellectual. The goal of this workshop was to show them in a practical, participatory and fun way, an area of knowledge that may be pursued in the academic field, so as to get to know the professional possibilities this has to offer.

The overall result of the workshop was a total success, since some of the participants took great interest in finding out what the road map is to work professionally designing and programming videogames. As the professor Jesús Alonso stated, this experience has been “a personal pleasure”, since it has contributed to triggering the “intellectual and work-related awareness of those who are in real need of this”.