Ayiti: The Cost of Life [view profile]
URL: CostofLife.org
Developer: Global Kids and GameLab
Description: Ayiti: 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.
Karma Tycoon [view profile]
URL: www.KarmaTycoon.com
Developer: 9mmedia (and Do Something)
Description: Karma 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
PeaceMaker [view profile]
URL: www.peacemakergame.com
Developer: ImpactGames
Description: PeaceMaker is inspired by real events in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. It challenges players to succeed as a leader where others have failed: bringing peace to the Middle-East. Playing both perspectives, players could experience the joy of winning the Nobel Prize or the agony of plunging the region into disaster.
RePlay: Finding Zoe [view profile]
URL: www.metrac.org/replay/en/index.html
Developer: METRAC in partnership with Susana Ruiz, Huy Trong, Ashley York
Description: The RePlay video game is geared towards promoting healthy, equal relationships between youth aged 8 to 14 years old. It challenges mainstream gender stereotypes that children learn from a young age, and that often lead to the social proliferation of violence against women and girls.
Orange Revolution [view profile]
URL: research.takingitglobal.org/orange
Developer: TakingITGlobal
Description: A simulation guiding players through the events of the Orange Revolution of 2004 in Ukraine, through the eyes of the two main presidential candidates. Players must come secure democratic reform without violence.
The Arcade Wire: Airport Security [view profile]
URL: www.shockwave.com/gamelanding/airportsecurity.jsp
Developer: Persuasive Games
Description: Airport Security offers a satirical critique of airport security practices circa early fall 2006, when security agencies in the US and abroad changed their policies to prohibit common items like toothpaste and hair gel.
The Arcade Wire: Oil God [view profile]
URL: www.shockwave.com/gamelanding/oilgod.jsp
Developer: Persuasive Games
Description: You are an Oil God! Wreak havoc on the world's oil supplies by unleashing war and disaster. Bend governments and economies to your will to alter trade practices. Your goal? Double consumer gasoline prices in five years using whatever means necessary.
Climate Challenge [view profile]
URL: www.bbc.co.uk/sn/hottopics/climatechange/climate_challenge/
Developer: Red Redemption Ltd.
Description: Climate Challenge is a single-player game about climate change, playable for free on the BBC website. It is a sandbox-style strategy game based on real climate change data, where the player can try out different approaches, learn about the issues and have fun at the same time.
A Force More Powerful [view profile]
URL: www.afmpgame.com
Developer: International Center on Nonviolent Conflict, York Zimmerman Inc. and BreakAway Games
Description: AFMP is the first and only game to teach the waging of conflict using nonviolent methods. Destined for use by activists, the game will also educate the media and general public on the potential of nonviolent action and serve as a simulation tool for academic studies of nonviolent resistance
Darfur is Dying [view profile]
URL: www.darfurisdying.com
Developer: interFUEL, LLC
Description: Darfur is Dying is a web-based, viral video game that provides a window into the experience of the 2.5 million refugees in the Darfur region of Sudan. It is designed to raise awareness of the genocide taking place in Darfur and empower college students to help stop the crisis.
Planet Green Game [view profile]
URL: www.planetgreengame.com
Developer: Tree Media
Description: Starbucks and Global Green USA have teamed up to encourage individuals to learn about global climate change and smart solutions with the launch of Planet Green Game (www.planetgreengame.com). Planet Green Game offers real-world examples of how individuals can change their own behavior and also influence the actions of community, political and corporate leaders to engage in the effort to stop global warming.
Community Organizing Toolkit [view profile]
URL: www.organizinggame.org/
Developer: Doug Nelson
Description: The Toolkit is a set of resources that supports face-to-face training for residents and community leaders. The computer-based component (the "Organizing Game") is used to introduce concepts, prompt discussion, and allow residents to practice skills in a safe, non-threatening environment. The initial focus of the Toolkit is teaching Doorknocking, an organizing technique that's particularly effective in moving issues within a local community.
McDonald's Video Game [view profile]
URL: www.mcvideogame.com
Developer: molleindustria
Description: McDonald's video game is a business game that aims to demonstrate the social and environmental unsustainability of the fast food industry.
Food Force [view profile]
URL: www.food-force.com
Developer: Deepend Srl for the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP)
Description: Food Force is an educational action computer game that teaches kids about the problem of global hunger and the importance of humanitarian aid work.
ICED - I Can End Deportation [view profile]
URL: www.icedgame.com
Developer: Breakthrough
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.
Play The News [view profile]
URL: www.playthenewsgame.com
Developer: ImpactGames
Description: An engaging, community-driven experience - imagine fantasy sports meets the evening news. Play the News is a web-based platform that changes the paradigm of news consumption from passive reading to active engagement.
CONSENT! [view profile]
URL: slurl.com/secondlife/GK%20Machinima%20Island/176/212/25
Developer: Global Kids/ Digital Refinery
Description: CONSENT! is a game in Second Life produced with Global Kids Youth leaders in the Global Kids Playing 4 Keeps program that offers a simulation of life as an African-male prisoner confronting five decades of medical racism.
Hurricane Katrina: Tempest in Crescent City [view profile]
URL: tempestincrescentcity.ning.com/game
Developer: Digital Creations
Description: Our game is about the everyday people who became heroes during the Hurricane Katrina disaster. The player is a resident looking for her mother. Along the way she must rescue people, and help neighbors help each other by distributing local resources and aiding comunication.
Pos or Not [view profile]
URL: www.posornot.com
Developer: VPI
Description: Pos or Not is a viral online game that confronts the stigma still surrounding HIV/AIDS more than 25 years after the first case of the disease was reported.
Free Rice [view profile]
URL: freerice.com
Developer: John Breen
Description: Free 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.
Pictures for Truth [view profile]
URL: www.picturesfortruth.com
Developer: Florent Guinier, Karim Osman, Patrick Boutot, Vincent Theriault
Description: Pictures for truth is a full 3d adventure game where you play a journalist in China. You will take picture and publish article to help about human right related trouble.
3rd World Farmer [view profile]
URL: www.3rdworldfarmer.com
Developer: 3rd World Farmer Team
Description: 3rd World Farmer lets players manage a small virtual farm in a developing country, and thus experience the hardships and dilemmas faced by the poor.
Harpooned [view profile]
URL: harpooned.org
Developer: Conor O'Kane
Description: Harpooned is a free game for Windows. It is a Cetacean Research Simulator, where you play the role of a Japanese scientist performing research on whales around Antarctica.
The Vinyl Game [view profile]
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URL: www.vinylgame.com/
Developer: Zelian
Description: Can you manage an industry sustainably? The Vinyl Game requires you to deliver shareholder profits whilst taking socio-economic and environmental decisions. The consequences of playing purely for economic growth become apparent as EU legislators levy fines, consumers boycott products and the trade unions vote to take strike action!
World Without Oil [view profile]
URL: worldwithoutoil.org
Developer: Writerguy LLA
Description: WORLD WITHOUT OIL invited people worldwide to contribute “collective imagination” to confront a real-world issue: the risk our thirst for oil poses to our economy, climate and quality of life. It’s a milestone in the use of games as democratic, collaborative platforms for exploring possible futures and sparking future-changing action.
Global Conflicts: Palestine [view profile]
URL: www.globalconflicts.eu
Developer: Serious Games Interactive
Description: Global Conflicts: Palestine is a 3D role-playing game for players to explore the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. They will be confronted with issues around human rights, terrorism and the media’s role in conflict zones and will experience situations taken from real life events that are more complicated than outsiders may realise.
Global Conflicts: Latin America [view profile]
URL: www.globalconflicts.eu
Developer: Serious Games Interactive
Description: Global Conflicts: Latin America is a 3D-roleplaying game that let players explore key problems in Latin American countries. The region is one of the most turbulent, violent, and poverty-striken places in the world, yet we rarely hear anything about the nations that struggle with paramilitary rule, extreme poverty, and exploitation of the population.
My US Rep [view profile]
URL: www.boogaholler.com/myusrep/
Developer: Red Aphid
Description: Now you can role play your favorite US House of Representative with My US Rep! Your mission is to increase your rep's popularity while you navigate a game space of legislation, lobbyists and media. Learn how your rep voted on key bills, then cast your own vote.
eLECTIONS: Your Adventure in Politics [view profile]
URL: www.ciconline.org/elections
Developer: Cable in the Classroom
Description: eLECTIONS is a powerful online learning experience that demonstrates how broadband technology - with its capacity to deliver video, audio, excellent inter-activity, design and content - can support active, meaningful and memorable learning.
The Redistricting Game [view profile]
URL: www.redistrictinggame.org
Developer: USC Game Innovation Lab
Description: The Redistricting Game educates, engages, and empowers citizens around the issue of congressional redistricting. As is illustrated in the game, our system is subject to a range of manipulations and helps fuel long-term political polarization in the U.S. Those empowered to change the system – congress - have the least incentive to do so.
Energyville [view profile]
URL: www.willyoujoinus.com/energyville/
Developer: The Economist Group
Description: Energyville represents the average industrialized city and its consumption of energy. Players must create energy sources in the present in order to create a sustainable future city in 2030.
Deliver the Net [view profile]
URL: www.nothingbutnets.net/its-easy-to-help/game.html
Description: The challenge: race the sun and hand out as many insecticide-treated bed nets as you can to African families. The more virtual nets you deliver – before the mosquitoes come out – the more lives you save.
Global Warming Interactive [view profile]
URL: www.globalwarminginteractive.com/
Description: CO2FX is a web based multi-user educational game which explores the relationship of global warming to economic, political and science policy decisions. The game is driven by a systems dynamics model and is presented in a user friendly interface intended for the high school user.
The Great Green Game [view profile]
URL: go.ucsusa.org/game/
Developer: The Union of Concerned Scientists
Description: This game tests your knowledge of how consumer choices affect the environment.
Mission: Migration [view profile]
URL: ny.audubon.org/missionmigration.html
Description: Learn how your everyday choices can affect the fate of migrating birds.
Go Goat Go [view profile]
URL: www.globalgang.org/funandgames/games/gogoatgo/game.html
Developer: Christian Aid
Description: Game about the importance of goats to the livelihood of a poor village.
Nuclear Weapons: The Peace Dove Game [view profile]
URL: nobelprize.org/educational_games/peace/nuclear_weapons/index.html
Developer: The United Nations
Description: Take on the mission to disarm the world of nuclear weapons! You have eight "Peace Doves" to help you, each able to disarm one of the eight countries possessing nuclear weapons.
A Seat At The Table [view profile]
URL: www.oxfamamerica.org/whatyoucando/act_now/fast/a-seat-at-the-table
Description: A 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.
Serious Policy [view profile]
URL: www.playgen.com/home/index.php?option=com_content&task=blogsection&id=5&Itemid=96
Developer: PlayGen
Description: The SeriousPolicy Game sets the player on a mission to win Treasury funding for a new policy.
Our Courts [view profile]
URL: www.ourcourts.org/
Developer: Jim Gee
Description: Through the lens of the judiciary, Our Courts will allow students to participate in realistic simulations of government and to grapple with relevant social issues.
Food Force [view profile]
URL: ff.fighthunger.org/index.php/game/
Developer: Deepend and Playerthree
Fat World [view profile]
URL: www.fatworld.org/
Developer: Persuasive Games
Description: FATWORLD is a video game about the politics of nutrition. It explores the relationships between obesity, nutrition, and socioeconomics in the contemporary U.S.
Stop Disasters [view profile]
URL: www.stopdisastersgame.org/en/
Developer: Playerthree
Description: Disaster prevention awareness on a grand scale. This game for the UN ISDR tackles the very real issue around the World of saving lives and reducing the financial impact that natural hazards cause when they turn into disasters.
Budget Hero [view profile]
URL: marketplace.publicradio.org/features/budget_hero/
Description: Budget Hero seeks to provide a values- and fiscal-based lens for citizens to examine policy debates during this election year.
Hush [view profile]
URL: www.jamieantonisse.com/hush/
Developer: Jaimie Antonisse
Description: Hush is a game created by University of Southern California Interactive Media Division MFA students Jamie Antonisse and Devon Johnson in their fall 2007 Intermediate Game Design and Development course.
Homeless: it's no game [view profile]
URL: wetcoast.org/games/homeless/homeless.swf
Developer: Terry Lavender
Description: A 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.
SimEP (Solid Waste Management Computer Game) [view profile]
URL: www.swmgame.org
Developer: Hong Kong Productivity Council
Description: SimEP is an online RPG game with six characters in a family setting which aims to inspire every citizen to lead a greener lifestyle. Through this game, the public will be able to appreciate the growing waste problem, how they can play a role in addressing the problem through waste reduction, re-use and recovery.
Against All Odds [view profile]
URL: www.playagainstallodds.com/
Developer: UNHCR: The UN Refugee Agency
Description: Against All Odds is about the global refugee experience from the time people are forced to leave their countries of origin to the beginning of their new life abroad.
Heifer Village Nepal [view profile]
URL: www.heifervillage.org/nepal/
Developer: Heifer International
Description: In this game you learn about the impact goats can have on a small Nepalese village.
Akrasia [view profile]
URL: gambit.mit.edu/loadgame/akrasia.php
Developer: Doris Rusch
Description: Akrasia is a single-player game that challenges game conventions and is intended to make the player think and reflect. It is based on the abstract concept of addiction, which is expressed metaphorically throughout the game.
GumBeat [view profile]
URL: gambit.mit.edu/loadgame/gumbeat.php
Developer: GAMBIT-MIT Lab
Description: In the world of GumBeat, you take the role of a defiant teenage girl who musters up the courage to stand up against the oppressive government.
The Garbage Game [view profile]
URL: www.gothamgazette.com/games/garbage.php
Developer: Gotham Gazette
Description: The Garbage Game allows you to make decisions that effect waste management in New York and helps you understand the funding and distribution issues in order to make educated voting decisions.
Traces of Hope [view profile]
URL: www.tracesofhope.com/
Developer: British Red Cross
Description: Vicious war in Northern Uganda has destroyed Joseph’s home and torn his family apart. He has one goal, to find out from the Red Cross if his mother is alive or dead.