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Video Games Can Save the World!

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  • Tuesday, 17 October 2017
  • 13:17 - 13:17
  • Duration: 28 mins
  • Publication date: 20 Oct 2017
  • Location: Turing Lecture Theatre, Savoy Place, London, United Kingdom
  • Part of event Engfest 2.0 2017

About the session

EngVentures

For KS3 students: start your journey into an exciting engineering career with a day of workshops, talks and an interactive exhibition.

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  • Engfest 2.0
  • VR
  • content
  • design
  • engineer
  • engineers
  • game design
  • iterate
  • plunderland
  • problem solving
  • test
  • video
  • video games

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    Max Scott-Slade

    Launcher of games including The Heist series, Comatose, the Banana Dash series and High Speed ChaseMax has launched a number of successful game IP’s over his 10 year career in games.As a co-founder of Johnny Two Shoes in 2007, Max launched The Heist series that has gone on to achieve over 250 million plays. Max has also launched many other games played by millions of fans, including Comatose, the Banana Dash series and High Speed Chase.Building games with film and commercial brands inspired Max to build the wildly successful iOS game in 2010 — Plunderland — with a metacritic score of 86 and over half a million downloads.Sea Hero Quest, launched in early 2016 with Telekom, was the first game to enable anyone to help with dementia research. With over 2.2 million downloads in the first 2 months, Sea Hero Quest has collected over 7,000 years worth of data for scientists working towards a cure for dementia.Sea Hero Quest won 9 Cannes Lions awards. Campaign Big Silver Award. Max speaks at events across the globe on game design and the disruptive impact of games on finance, education, health and science.
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