Founded by self-taught game designers Bram Allegaert and Lennert Mottar in February 2023, BrainBugs collaborates with various illustrators, animators and screenwriters on different projects. Take a look at our projects page (in Dutch) to get an overview of our work.

Our studio promotes social equality, active citizenship, media literacy and accessible digital technology. We choose projects and partners that align with these values and focus on making games that are accessible and modular. This allows for quick updates and adaptations, ideal for iterative co-design processes, enabling us to respond to the needs of users and partners without making them dependent on commercial platforms.

In our approach to ‘serious games’ , we emphasize a unique perspective by prioritizing reflection on societal issues, often through moral dilemmas, rather than focusing solely on knowledge transfer. It is important that we do not impose a moral standpoint on the player by promoting a singular worldview or offering very linear gameplay. We always explore how we can provide players with freedom of movement and choice within compact games.

Our original modular approach and passion for societal issues push the boundaries of digital game design potential in various learning contexts. Beyond impacting our target audience, we strive for sustainable expansion and deepening of collaborations across various sectors, starting at the national level. For the world does not lack high-speed trains, but rather slow trains that value different horizons and possibilities.