Juma Al-JouJou

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Juma Al-JouJou (born September 30, 1985 in Sharjah , United Arab Emirates ) is a German game designer and entrepreneur who has been developing games since 2011 and published them in the game publisher Karma Games, which he founded in 2013.

Al-JouJou and his publisher Karma Games are best known for their game Clans of Caledonia , which he published in 2017 after a very successful Kickstarter campaign and which was voted fourth at the German Game Prize 2018 and was nominated for several game awards.

biography

Juma Al-JouJou was born in Sharjah , United Arab Emirates in 1985 . He grew up in Bavaria and graduated from high school in Sulzbach-Rosenberg in 2005 . From 2005 to 2008 he studied philosophy and economics as a bachelor's degree at the University of Regensburg and then worked as a SAP consultant from 2008 to 2010. From 2010 to 2012 he studied innovation management & entrepreneurship / business administration at the TU Berlin and at the University of Twente in the Netherlands. After completing his studies, he founded his game publisher Karma Games to offer “online learning games as a communication medium for responsible companies”. The company was founded through an Exist start-up grant of 100,000 euros.

During his studies, Al-JouJou developed the game Green Deal and financed its realization through a campaign at Startnext . He then published the card game Fette Harvest and worked on the game Clans of Caledonia , which he presented at the 2016 Göttingen game designer meeting and submitted to the 2017 Hippodice game designer competition. On April 25, 2017, he started a Kickstarter campaign for the game with a target amount of 29,000 euros, which was supported by almost 6,500 supporters with almost 400,000 euros until May 18, 2017. Al-JouJou worked with the well-known game illustrator Klemens Franz for the realization . The game was officially released for the International Game Days 2017 in Essen and was sold out there within a short time. In 2018, Clans of Caledonia was voted fourth in the German Game Award and nominated for the Portuguese Jogo do Ano . At the beginning of 2019 it was awarded the MinD game award as a "complex game".

Ludography (selection)

  • 2013: Pretty Ugly: The Satirical Card Game against Beauty Mania (unpublished)
  • 2014: Green Deal (Karma Games)
  • 2015: Fat Harvest (Karma Games)
  • 2017: Clans of Caledonia (Karma Games)

Awards

supporting documents

  1. ↑ Juma Al-JouJou about his board game Clans Of Caledonia. Interview on reich-der-spiele.de, September 16, 2017; accessed on November 11, 2018.
  2. ↑ a b c founder interview: Nine questions for Juma Al-JouJou from Karma Games. Interview on vc-magazin.de, December 5, 2013; accessed on November 11, 2018.
  3. ↑ Green Deal - The Strategic Board Game. Campaign on startnext; accessed on November 11, 2018.
  4. ^ Clans of Caledonia: A Game about Whiskey, Trade, and Glory. Campaign on kickstarter; accessed on November 11, 2018.
  5. ^ Winner of the German Game Award ; accessed on November 11, 2018.
  6. ↑ The nomination list for the MinD game award (category: complex games) ; accessed on November 11, 2018.

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personal data
SURNAME Al-JouJou, Juma
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German game designer and publisher
DATE OF BIRTH September 30, 1985
PLACE OF BIRTH Sharjah , United Arab Emirates