Lual Mayen is a South Sudanese developer and founder of Junub games.
His parents had to flee South Sudan to Northern Uganda to find a place of refuge.
Born in South Sudan and raised in the Refugee camp, Northern Uganda.





It all started when Mayen saw a laptop computer at a registration station for the refugee camp. He told his mother he wanted one. She saved money for three years to get the $300 to buy it for him. When she gave it to him in 2013, he burst into tears.


He took it to an internet cafe and used it. And he discovered Grand Theft Auto: Vice City and the joy of playing. He didn’t know how video games were made.

t was a three-hour walk to get to the internet cafe, but he made the journey regularly just to charge his computer and play games.

“I thought they fell from heaven,” he said.

Passionate about creating games to help promote peace.
Currently a Visiting Scholar-In-Residence at American University.

He created a game called Salaam (an Arabic word that means peace) about protecting communities from being destroyed. It was a 10-megabit mobile game, but he could only distribute it via Bluetooth networking. It spread in a viral way. A conference organizer at A Maze discovered it, tracked him down, and asked him to speak at a conference on games in South Africa.

Recognized at the Game Awards as the Global Gaming Citizen by Facebook Gaming and The Game Awards for using games to bring about a positive impact.
The awards bring together a diverse group of game players, game developers, and notable names from the popular culture to celebrate and advance gaming’s positions as the most immersive, challenging and inspiring form of entertainment. The Game Awards viewership more than doubled in 2018 with over 27.5 million live streams

He became 2018 Forbes under 30 scholars.
Feature on BBC News, Al Jazeera News, Gamasutra, and VOA News. The organizer of the first-ever global game jam in South Sudan.

Mayen now lives in Washington, D.C., and he is also working with a small team on a virtual reality game. Oculus is working with him on that title.
“Maybe one day, my dream will come true, making the biggest video game studio that makes games for peace,” Mayen said.

He is currently building a VR experience that focuses on the idea that an individual’s behaviors, and decisions; before picking up the gun; are the most powerful. the game shows that even small behaviors and choices can have devastating and far-reaching consequences. the game helps the player to practice and experiences how to avoid the path of war and violence in resolving the conflict.



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