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ICED - I Can End Deportation
Game URL: www.icedgame.com
Developer: Breakthrough
Non-Profit: Breakthrough was the lead Executive Producer and Developer, but it was a collaborative effort, groups include: Families For Freedom, Capital Area Immi
Release Date: February 18, 2008
Project Lead: Breakthrough
Funding Sources: Major foundations such as: Open Society Institute, The Overbrook Foundation, Libra Foundation, Starry Night Fund of the Tides Foundation, The David an
Sponsors/In-kind donations: Google Adwords, Families For Freedom, Capital Area Immigrant Rights Coalition, Detention Watch Network, Rights Working Group, New York Immigration Coalition, high schools: Urban Assembly High School, Newcomers High School, The Renaissance Charter School, Elizabeth Irwin High School Jenny Polak of Hardplace website, as well as many other consultants, gaming experts and our pro bono legal team at LeBeoeuf Lamb Greene and McRaye, LLP.
Budget:
Overall: 140,000
Secured: All
Brief Description
Breakthrough's video game, ICED – I Can End Deportation, (www.icedgame.com) puts you in the shoes of an immigrant to illustrate how unfair immigration laws deny due process and violate human rights. These laws affect all immigrants: legal residents, those fleeing persecution, students and undocumented people.
Full Description
ICED – I Can End Deportation, from non-profit Breakthrough (www.breakthrough.tv), is a free, 3D downloadable video game (available at www.icedgame.com). ICED teaches players about current immigration laws on detention and deportation that affect all immigrants: legal permanent residents, asylum seekers, students and undocumented people by violating human rights and denying due process. In the game, players can inhabit one of five immigrant youth, each of a different ethnicity and immigration status. The youth are being chased by immigration officers, while making moral decisions and answering myth and fact questions about immigration policies. If the player chooses or answers incorrectly, he/she increases his/her chances of being thrown into detention. Once in detention, the player endures both physical separation from his/her family and unjust conditions awaiting – often for unknown amounts of time – the random outcomes of his/her case. ICED comes with additional educational resources, which are found on the game website: a standards aligned curriculum for high school teachers that uses web 2.0 technologies and a discussion guide which provides talking points and tips for mobilization for organizations and community groups.
Target Audience: High school and college age youth
Social Issues Addressed: human rights, Immigration, Due Process and Human RIghts,
Purpose:
To reframe the immigration debate from a discussion that looks at immigrants as criminals, to one that looks at and creates awareness around immigration as an issue that violates human rights and denies due process of all immigrants- legal and undocumented.
Metrics:
How? The Center for Children & Technology – Education Development Center, Inc (EDC). developed pre and post surveys to measure knowledge around the 1996 immigration laws, current immigration policy and lack of due process.
What outcomes have been measured? The outcomes are currently being measured regarding pre game and post game knowledge. Our ideal outcome is to have raised awareness regarding the lack of due process and violation of human rights to all immigrants – legal and undocumented.
Press Coverage:
http://www.gamedaily.com/articles/news/iced-faces-deportation/?biz=1 http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2008/02/19/scitech/pcanswer/main3843379.shtml http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/03/13/video-game-outrages-anti_n_91445.html http://www.huffingtonpost.com/mallika-dutt/when-did-immigrant-beco_b_93348.html http://girlinthemachine.blogspot.com/2008/02/i-can-end-discrimination.html
Press Release URL:
Public Contact Information
Name: Crissy Spivey
Email: crissy@breakthrough.tv
Press Contact Name: Crissy Spivey
Press Contact Email: crissy@breakthrough.tv
Game Tags: Breakthrough ICED Immigration Immigrant Detention Deportation Human Rights Due Process Video Game Mallika Dutt Heidi Boisvert
Where you can play this game: ICED lives at http://www.icedgame.com - for MAC and PC.
