Nintendo Benelux organised a Super Mario Maker competition that revealed some of the best current Game designers. Leroy Freeth won the competition (and took home a brand new Wii-U console!) after building the most creative and playable level for Nintendo’s game. Leroy is a 2nd year Bachelor’s student enrolled in the Game Design & Development programme at Hanze University of Applied Science, Groningen.

Super Mario Maker is a game where players can create their own levels. The competition’s judges described Leroy’s work as follows: "Good game levels should compliment the law of Design (easy to learn, but difficult to master). Leroy showed creativity to the judges through the use of entertaining puzzles created for an environment in which the player is and what is expected of the player was always clear."

Nintendo’s competition took place from September to December 2015, in cooperation with Hanze UAS, Groningen.

Where is Leroy studying?

Hanze University of Applied Science, Groningen is the largest vocational university in the north of the Netherlands. It teaches over 27,000 students from all over the world.

Hanze UAS offers many English-taught Bachelor’s and Master’s programmes in Economics, Technology, Arts, Design, Music, and Sports.

Game Design and Development is a Bachelor’s programme at Hanze which prepares designers, artists, and programmers for working in the Gaming industry. The programme is taught in English and takes 4 years to complete.

To find more details regarding this programme, please visit the Hanze UAS website.