Jobbpuzzlet was a project I worked on during the fall of 2013 that won a prize for best innovation. The project was a co-operation between the University of Skövde and Bräcke Diakoni, where Bräcke had reached out to the university to ask them to help them develop a serious game for their business.

The main goal with this game was to motivate disable youth to look and apply for work, but also to teach them to understand their rights and what laws that is there to support them in all of it.

We were a group of four students working on the game.

The idea for the design of the game was spun out of the card game Yu-Gi-Oh! Where players battle each other by using tactics and hoping to get the right cards in hand to create the best combination.

In Livspuzzlet the player has to battle his or her way through administrators and insurance policies to finally reach their goal and get the support that they need.

We created a ton of cards that would work as attack and defence cards. To spicy things up and make it really fun and interesting for the young adults who would be using the game we tried to make the themes of the cards as relatable as possible. To understand our audience, we had a lot of meetings and interviews where we got the chance to sit down with these young people to get the chance to understand their view.

The result was quite hilarious and some of the attack cards that the opponent could throw at you was phone queue, paragraphs that isn’t meant to be understand by someone who doesn’t practice law or please fill out these forms again.

The player in other hand could use defence or their own attacks to create combos that they could send back and in that way beat the administrators and finally win the game.

Link to Swedish article about the prize that the game won: http://www.mynewsdesk.com/se/brackediakoni/pressreleases/braecke-diakoni-vinnare-i-post-och-telestyrelsens-innovationstaevling-fraan-studier-till-arbete-med-hjaelp-av-it-999684