Children and young people are creatnig a predominantly text-base game, aimed at giving so-called reluctant readers a reading-for-pleasure alternative that they will thoroughly enjoy. There will be an option to have the text narrated and the dialogue performed by voice actors. As well as text, the game will have illustrations, animations, puzzles, and mini-games as a reward for progress.

Theatre of the Air was an Arts Council funded project which brought together a group of theatre practitioners who had been unable to practise their craft due to the Covid-19 lockdown in 2020. Participants collaborated with our staff to create an audio drama based on the folklore of Wiltshire. The project culminated in the launch of a new audio theatre company, which they also called Theatre of the Air.

Young storytellers, gamers, coders, writers and artists are working together to devise, write, illustrate and publish an interactive fantasy gamebook, both in print and online.

Inspired by the ideas, ideals and creative freedom of the Surrealist movement, primary age children authored and published their own artistically ambitious video game, called Paper Dreams.

With the support of our professional artists, they developed an amazing a range of quirky characters and outlandish environments. They created illustrations, animations, interactions and wrote text based dialogues as part of a fun, authentic and inspiring creative experience.

We worked with 63 young people aged 11 – 19 from 3 schools to support them to create an interactive, illustrated gamebook for tablet and smartphone. Young people took part in plotting, writing, illustrating, app design and coding workshops. Young people worked with professional writers, illustrators, musicians and developers. We published the final game is available on the iOS App Store and Google Play.

A project in which diverse groups of young people made their own levels for an epic video game.

Together, they came up with an amazingly rich story and a diverse cast of complex characters.

Each group chose their own style of game for their level and did all the drawing and animation.