Frima Studio, developer of Half the Sky Movement: The Game Since its debut less than three months ago on March 4, the Half the Sky game has seen more than 780,000 players, who in total have contributed more than $321,400 in donations directly or through sponsors. Players have already unlocked 179,700 free books and $110,500… Read more »

The Games for Change Festival is offering limited $150 tickets to the indie game development community, in honor of our partnerships with Babycastles, Hide&Seek, and the Global Game Jam as curators for the 10th Anniversary Festival. Whether you’re a one-person operation or a small team whose members are in single digits, enter the code “Lets-Make-G4C”… Read more »

Less than a week remains in regular registration for the Games for Change Festival. Get your tickets before Friday, June 7, to avoid the last-minute rush (and elevated late registration prices that will start June 8!). BREAKING: Opening Keynote from Google’s Michael Jones Michael Jones, the chief technology advocate at Google and a founder of… Read more »

From left to right: Safe Sex With Friends, Check/Mate, and SexEd Super Task Force. Games for Change is excited to announce the finalists for our first-ever public design competition! Selected finalists are: Safe Sex with Friends by Team Jimmy: A social mobile game for iPhone and Android that uses a simple pick-up-and-play mechanic to teach… Read more »

Who’s going to be at the 10th Anniversary Games for Change Festival? In addition to our phenomenal lineup of speakers and six keynotes, attendees who have registered so far represent a diverse background from game-making, academia, education, film-making, museums, and NGOs and NPOS from the U.S., Australia, Brazil, Columbia, England, Israel, and more. One in 10 attendees… Read more »

We’ve seen so many game-changing creators over Games for Change’s 10-year history; we really ought to start giving them awards. … And this year, we are! Jesse Schell is a modern day Da Vinci — an award-winning game designer, CEO of Schell Games (80+ employees), distinguished professor at the Entertainment Technology Center at Carnegie Mellon… Read more »

There are thousands of games made each year during the annual event – so many it is impossible to play them all (thank heavens for my grad student Vince who played through this diversifier). This year I was asked by the Games for Change Festival to curate games that highlighted the diversifier, the Bigger Picture,… Read more »

If games and learning is a topic that sets your creativity reeling, then block your calendar for June 17—19th and make your way to New York City for the 10th Anniversary Games for Change Festival. The Joan Ganz Cooney Center at Sesame Workshop has curated a selection of speakers and panel discussion on a wide… Read more »

Wonder City, the companion game to the documentary Wonder Women! The Untold Story of American Superheroines, launched this week with the aim of changing how players visualize power and gender. Just as the documentary examines American pop culture’s attitudes toward powerful women, this online game specifically reaches out to tweens to address the very same… Read more »