{"id":6108,"date":"2026-10-17T10:30:00","date_gmt":"2026-10-17T08:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theoluk.com\/?p=6108"},"modified":"2026-10-16T21:36:04","modified_gmt":"2026-10-16T19:36:04","slug":"gumball-social-game-il-videogioco-deciso-dai-bambini","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theoluk.com\/en\/gumball-social-game-il-videogioco-deciso-dai-bambini\/","title":{"rendered":"Gumball Social Game: the videogame designed by kids"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">What if a videogame was designed by kids? \ud83d\udc7e<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">For five weeks Boing asked kids one question per week on TV, and they voted on the features of a new game: gameplay, setting, game mode, heroes and villains.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The result is <strong>Gumball Social Game<\/strong>: a vertical space race with Gumball, Darwin and Anais, from planet to planet up to the podium, with all of Gumball\u2019s friends as rivals.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1392\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theoluk.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/gumball-social-game-boing-pixel-art-the-oluk-01-intro.png\" alt=\"Gumball Social Game, il videogioco Boing deciso dai bambini: titolo e personaggi in pixel art\" class=\"wp-image-6065\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.theoluk.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/gumball-social-game-boing-pixel-art-the-oluk-01-intro.png 1920w, https:\/\/www.theoluk.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/gumball-social-game-boing-pixel-art-the-oluk-01-intro-300x218.png 300w, https:\/\/www.theoluk.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/gumball-social-game-boing-pixel-art-the-oluk-01-intro-1024x742.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.theoluk.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/gumball-social-game-boing-pixel-art-the-oluk-01-intro-768x557.png 768w, https:\/\/www.theoluk.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/gumball-social-game-boing-pixel-art-the-oluk-01-intro-1536x1114.png 1536w, https:\/\/www.theoluk.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/gumball-social-game-boing-pixel-art-the-oluk-01-intro-18x12.png 18w, https:\/\/www.theoluk.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/gumball-social-game-boing-pixel-art-the-oluk-01-intro-370x268.png 370w, https:\/\/www.theoluk.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/gumball-social-game-boing-pixel-art-the-oluk-01-intro-1120x812.png 1120w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I handled concept, game design and pixel art, as always in Photoshop. Thanks to Dinobros for the development and to Edo Faravelli for animating Anais and Gumball\u2019s friends \ud83d\udc9c<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1080\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theoluk.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/gumball-social-game-boing-pixel-art-the-oluk-05-gameplay.png\" alt=\"Schermata di gioco di Gumball Social Game\" class=\"wp-image-6069\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.theoluk.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/gumball-social-game-boing-pixel-art-the-oluk-05-gameplay.png 1920w, https:\/\/www.theoluk.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/gumball-social-game-boing-pixel-art-the-oluk-05-gameplay-300x169.png 300w, https:\/\/www.theoluk.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/gumball-social-game-boing-pixel-art-the-oluk-05-gameplay-1024x576.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.theoluk.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/gumball-social-game-boing-pixel-art-the-oluk-05-gameplay-768x432.png 768w, https:\/\/www.theoluk.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/gumball-social-game-boing-pixel-art-the-oluk-05-gameplay-1536x864.png 1536w, https:\/\/www.theoluk.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/gumball-social-game-boing-pixel-art-the-oluk-05-gameplay-18x10.png 18w, https:\/\/www.theoluk.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/gumball-social-game-boing-pixel-art-the-oluk-05-gameplay-1280x720.png 1280w, https:\/\/www.theoluk.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/gumball-social-game-boing-pixel-art-the-oluk-05-gameplay-400x225.png 400w, https:\/\/www.theoluk.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/gumball-social-game-boing-pixel-art-the-oluk-05-gameplay-1120x630.png 1120w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1080\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theoluk.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/gumball-social-game-boing-pixel-art-the-oluk-06-finish-line.png\" alt=\"Traguardo di Gumball Social Game\" class=\"wp-image-6070\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.theoluk.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/gumball-social-game-boing-pixel-art-the-oluk-06-finish-line.png 1920w, https:\/\/www.theoluk.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/gumball-social-game-boing-pixel-art-the-oluk-06-finish-line-300x169.png 300w, https:\/\/www.theoluk.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/gumball-social-game-boing-pixel-art-the-oluk-06-finish-line-1024x576.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.theoluk.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/gumball-social-game-boing-pixel-art-the-oluk-06-finish-line-768x432.png 768w, https:\/\/www.theoluk.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/gumball-social-game-boing-pixel-art-the-oluk-06-finish-line-1536x864.png 1536w, https:\/\/www.theoluk.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/gumball-social-game-boing-pixel-art-the-oluk-06-finish-line-18x10.png 18w, https:\/\/www.theoluk.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/gumball-social-game-boing-pixel-art-the-oluk-06-finish-line-1280x720.png 1280w, https:\/\/www.theoluk.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/gumball-social-game-boing-pixel-art-the-oluk-06-finish-line-400x225.png 400w, https:\/\/www.theoluk.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/gumball-social-game-boing-pixel-art-the-oluk-06-finish-line-1120x630.png 1120w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The game is available on Boing App in Italy and Spain.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\ud83d\udc49 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theoluk.com\/en\/portfolio\/gumball-social-game\/\">Discover the project in the portfolio<\/a><br>\ud83c\udfae <a href=\"https:\/\/des98fz5jsos4.cloudfront.net\/boing\/dynamic\/web_game\/00000000\/791\/ba1910cb-d48a-423a-ba3b-9b65f5ec1e94_1779789728\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Play now<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe title=\"Gumball Social Game \u2013 Trailer | Il videogioco deciso dai bambini per Boing\" width=\"1170\" height=\"658\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/tIcJ0GEBhAg?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Per cinque settimane i bambini hanno votato in TV le caratteristiche del gioco: il risultato \u00e8 Gumball Social Game, una corsa nello spazio con Gumball, Darwin e Anais.<\/p>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":6119,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[104,222],"tags":[28,209],"class_list":["post-6108","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-video-game","tag-boingtv","tag-dinobros"],"acf":{"full_width":false,"header_transparent":false,"header_white":false},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theoluk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6108","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theoluk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theoluk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theoluk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theoluk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6108"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.theoluk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6108\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6118,"href":"https:\/\/www.theoluk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6108\/revisions\/6118"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theoluk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6119"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theoluk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6108"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theoluk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6108"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theoluk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6108"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}