Two Erasmus+ projects, one radical idea: games can do what classrooms cannot. We designed four educational tools — Mission Z, Real iDeal, Value Cards and The 4 Headed Monkey — to work on values, conflict, identity and inclusion with young people across Europe.
BB Games was born in Norway in 2014 to answer a simple question — can we learn the most important things in life by playing? BB Games Legacy picked up the baton from Belgium in 2019 to push it further, with new games and new countries.
The founding project. Coordinated from Norway, it brought together a network of European youth organisations to design and test the first game-based educational tools: Mission Z, Real iDeal and Value Cards. Three years of prototyping, workshops and non-formal educator training across six countries.
View Erasmus+ entryFive years later, a new consortium led from Belgium picks up the methodology, updates it for a post-pandemic world and adds a fourth game: The 4 Headed Monkey, an immersive experience on systems thinking, sustainability and complex problem solving. More partners. More languages. More impact.
View Erasmus+ entryAn immersive three-hour simulation where participants make real decisions under partial information, feel genuine emotions under pressure and discover truths about the group that no classroom could reveal. The most-used tool in the BB Games catalogue — tested with more than 25,000 people across Europe.
A game where you plan what your ideal life would look like, make decisions, face the unexpected… will you reach that life? A safe environment that is sure to raise many doubts and questions — playable from teenagers to adults. This is learning for life!
A deck of value cards that becomes a universal facilitation tool. Players pick, discard, defend and negotiate their values: what matters, what does not, what is non‑negotiable. Use it as an icebreaker, a closing exercise, or the thread of a whole retreat.
Play the online Value Cards game — choose, rank and reflect. It only takes a few minutes and the results are yours to keep.
Play the values gameWe all know that values play a crucial role in our lives — but can you tell which values guide the lives of those around you? Do we defend them at all times? What happens when we do, and when we don’t? This educational experience is about exactly that: discovering the values of others while we learn about the 76 European values already identified in Value Cards.
Footage recorded at workshops, schools and international encounters — Oslo, Brussels, Alicante, Turin, Athens. Click any card to play the file.
Twelve organisations across nine countries have contributed to the design, testing and outreach of the games. Their flags mark the map; the links lead to their sites.
All materials produced by the BB Games and BB Games Legacy projects are open-access under a Creative Commons licence. Facilitator manuals, printable materials, templates and methodological guides.
Complete manual to prepare and run the simulation. Roles, materials, debrief.
Cards, boards, role sheets and templates ready to print.
Instructions, variants and sheets to print your own deck.
72 value cards ready to print — English edition.
Facilitation manual, role system and boards for the four teams.
The reference document: pedagogical framework, evaluation and impact.
Results, impact indicators and lessons from the 2019–2023 consortium.
A free web version of the game — discover your own values in minutes.
We work with schools, city councils, NGOs, companies and European programmes. Within 48h we reply with a tailored proposal.
