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3rd World Farmer (0 comments)
Age Range
Ages 11 and up
Description3rd World Farmer lets players manage a small virtual farm in a developing country, and thus experience the hardships and dilemmas faced by the poor.
Developer
3rd World Farmer Team
Social Issue Channels
Economics
Global Conflict
Politics
Poverty
A Seat At The Table (0 comments)
Age Range
Ages 7 and up
DescriptionA Seat at the Table illustrates the root causes of global poverty and hunger, and let’s you navigate the choices that will determine how much you and your family will eat.
Social Issue Channels
Economics
Poverty
Ayiti: The Cost of Life (0 comments)
Age Range
Ages 11 and up
DescriptionAyiti: The Cost of Life is a game that challenges its players to manage a rural family of five in Haiti over four years and keep them healthy, get them educated, and help them survive. Develop in a unique partnership between youth in an after school program and a professional game developer, the game has been played over a half million times since its launch six months ago and has proven to be a hit as both an engaging game and as a tool for education.
Developer
Global Kids and GameLab
Social Issue Channels
Human Rights
Poverty
Youth-Produced
Food Force (1 comment)
Age Range
Ages 7 and up
DescriptionFood Force is an educational action computer game that teaches kids about the problem of global hunger and the importance of humanitarian aid work.
Developer
Deepend Srl for the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP)
Social Issue Channels
Poverty
Free Rice (0 comments)
Age Range
Ages 7 and up
DescriptionFree rice is a free online vocabulary gain that donates 20 grains of rice to the World Food Programme (WFP) for every correct answer. WFP ditributes the rice to hugry people all over the world.
Developer
John Breen
Social Issue Channels
Poverty
Go Goat Go (1 comment)
Age Range
Ages 3 and up
DescriptionGame about the importance of goats to the livelihood of a poor village.
Developer
Christian Aid
Social Issue Channels
Poverty
Heifer Virtual Village: Nepal (0 comments)
Age Range
Ages 18 and up
DescriptionHeifer Virtual Village: Nepal is browser-based real-time 3D simulation where the player's character must navigate a virtual Nepalese environment, interact with other characters in the village, and correctly complete tasks associated with the game's goal.
Developer
ForgeFX
Social Issue Channels
Poverty
Homeless: it's no game (0 comments)
Age Range
Ages 11 and up
DescriptionA simplification of homelessness and the people forced into that situation. Purpose to raise awareness of homelessness and to encourage people to learn more about the homeless and their problems.
Developer
Terry Lavender
Social Issue Channels
Poverty
Hurricane Katrina: Tempest in Crescent City (0 comments)
Age Range
Ages 11 and up
DescriptionGlobal Kids Youth Leaders selected the topic of Hurricane Katrina and worked with game developers Gamepill to create Hurricane Katrina: Tempest in Crescent City. The web-based game recognizes local heroes that emerged during the disaster while educating its players about the essentials of disaster readiness and of reporters.
Developer
Global Kids and Gamepill
Social Issue Channels
Economics
Environment
Human Rights
News
Politics
Poverty
Youth-Produced
Karma Tycoon (0 comments)
Age Range
Ages 11 and up
DescriptionKarma Tycoon is an online strategy game in which players solve community problems, such as homelessness, in cities across the US. Players learn the ins and outs of the not-for-profit world as they apply for grants, receive donations and have to manage their budget efficiently. It is available free of charge at KarmaTycoon.com
Developer
9mmedia (and Do Something)
Social Issue Channels
Economics
Poverty
Layoff (0 comments)
Age Range
Ages 11 and up
DescriptionLAYOFF comments on the current state of the US financial crisis. Part dark humor, mostly grim portent, players play from the side of management needing to cut jobs, and match types of workers in groups in order to lay the workers off and increase workforce efficiency.
Developer
Tiltfactor and Values at Play project. Tiltfactor hired out the programming tasks to a Rochester Institute of Technology Game Design and Development
Social Issue Channels
Economics
News
Poverty
Public Policy
MILLEE: Mobile and Immersive Learning for Literacy in Emerging Economies (0 comments)
Age Range
Ages 7 and up
DescriptionCellphone-based games that enable poor children in the developing world to acquire language and literacy in immersive, game-like environments. These games target localized language learning needs and aim to make literacy resources more accessible to underprivileged children who face the child labor challenge.
Developer
Matthew Kam and team
Social Issue Channels
Poverty
Other
Reach the World’s GeoGames (0 comments)
Age Range
Ages 3 and up
DescriptionCan you build the globe in less than three minutes? Give your world geography skills a test with Reach the World’s GeoGames, an online, interactive suite of geography-learning games based on research at Teachers College, Columbia University and funded originally by the National Geographic Society Education Foundation.
Developer
Reach the World and Dangerous Media, with underwriting support from the National Geographic Society Education Foundation
Social Issue Channels
Economics
Poverty
Youth-Produced
Other
Real Lives 2010 (0 comments)
Age Range
Ages 11 and up
DescriptionReal Lives 2010 is the latest version of the Real Lives simulation that enables you to live a life in any country of the world, all based on real world statistics.
Developer
Educational Simulations
Social Issue Channels
Economics
Global Conflict
Human Rights
Politics
Poverty
Public Health
Runesinger (0 comments)
Age Range
Ages 7 and up
DescriptionPlay with Korean. Feed a village. Practice a few nouns and verbs by serving food to villagers during a famine in North Korea. Each villager sings the food they need. Compose the letters into a magic word. Play in virtual environment and user interface that embody Hangul.
Developer
Ethan Kennerly et al.
Social Issue Channels
Poverty
Other
