Portfolio

Games that made the news. And made companies.

Every experience we design is built on a real brief, for a real audience.

BBC News · Africa

Rebranding Africa through play and design

Utalii Creative featured on BBC Africa for using gamification and design to change how Africa is represented.

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Case Studies

Real briefs, real audiences.

The Cross-Cultural Foundation of Uganda (CCFU)

Ekiteera Conservation Game (2026)

A board game designed to teach school-going children how to coexist peacefully with chimpanzees living along the forest corridors of the Bunyoro region.

Service offered

Designed and developed the board game, conducted field testing across five schools in three districts, then refined and finalized the Minimum Viable Product (MVP).

Outcome

Successfully validated through field testing in five schools across the Bunyoro region, producing a classroom-ready conservation education game informed by real user feedback.

Uganda Registration Services Bureau (URSB) & World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO)

IP in a Box (2025)

A gamified learning toolkit designed to simplify intellectual property education for young innovators and entrepreneurs.

Service offered

Game Design • Educational Toolkit Production • Gamification

Outcome

Designed and produced five custom educational games for WIPO's IP in a Box initiative, helping launch Africa's first IP Game Lab in partnership with URSB.

TotalEnergies Uganda

Launch of the 5 Levers for a Sustainable Change Initiative (2024)

Gamifying the launch experience to turn sustainability principles into interactive learning. Transform a corporate sustainability launch into an engaging, participatory experience that encouraged employees to understand and interact with the five behavioral levers.

Service offered

Experience Design • Event Gamification • Interactive Learning Facilitation

Outcome

Designed and delivered a fully gamified event experience featuring themed board game stations and facilitated learning sessions that enabled participants to actively explore and engage with each of the five sustainability levers.

MTN Uganda

Team Building Week

Service offered

The Ultimate Board Games Experience

Media Challenge Initiative (MCI Media Hub)

End of Year Party 2022

Service offered

The Ultimate Board Games Experience

Goethe-Zentrum Kampala (GZK Kampala)

Azulato Children's Festival 2022 + 2023

Service offered

The Ultimate Board Games Experience

Uganda Development Bank (UDB)

Launching Customer Service Charter for All Staff to Adopt

Service offered

Game-Based Learning Workshop

Uganda Marketers Society (UMS)

Marketers Day Out 2022 + 2023

Service offered

The Ultimate Board Games Experience

Media Futures East Africa (MFEA)

The East Festival 2022

Service offered

The Ultimate Games Experience

French Embassy in Uganda & Stanbic Business Incubator Limited (SBIL)

Network for Innovation and Sustainability in Agriculture and Tourism (NISAT) Program

Service offered

Game-Based Learning Workshop

The Innovation Village

The Inaugural Freelancers Summit 2024

Service offered

The Ultimate Board Games Experience

MTN Uganda

August Monthly Tee Tournament

Service offered

The Ultimate Board Games Experience

FSD Uganda

End of Year Party 2023

Service offered

Team Building Experience

NCBA Bank Uganda

The NCBA Golf Junior Golf Tournament in Uganda 2023 + 2024

Service offered

The Ultimate Games Experience

Next Media Services

End of Year Party 2022

Service offered

The Ultimate Games Experience

Behind the scenes

More of this, as it happens.

Every activation, puzzle relay and workshop we run, posted in real time.

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The studio

The studio.

Origin story coming soon.

Emily Banya

Co-founder, Behavioural Design Expert

Led the design and implementation of every project in this portfolio.

Racheal Winnie Kangumba

Co-founder, Design and Gamification Expert

Bio coming soon.

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Our Ventures

Two experiences we designed grew into companies.

Participation Systems · M&E

Akatuuti

A gamified monitoring and evaluation experience we designed for Africa’s creative economy. It measures attendance, participation and impact, and grew into a platform of its own.

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Deeper Connection Initiative

DCI Wellness

A gamified mental-health experience we designed to open hard conversations through play. It became its own venture in wellbeing and early-warning systems.

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