Games for Change has identified and selected the following games as being examples of games that engage contemporary social issues in meaningful ways to foster a more just, equitable and/or tolerant society. These games have been created by cross-disciplinary teams from around the world and all aim to serve the public interest.
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3rd World Farmer (
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11 and up
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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.
Developer
3rd World Farmer Team
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Economics
Poverty
Global Conflict
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A Force More Powerful (
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14 and up
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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
Developer
International Center on Nonviolent Conflict, York Zimmerman Inc. and BreakAway Games
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Public Policy
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Against All Odds (
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14 and up
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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.
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UNHCR: The UN Refugee Agency
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Human Rights
Global Conflict
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Akrasia (
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14 and up
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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.
Developer
Doris Rusch
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Public Health
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Ars Regendi (
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11 and up
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Political online game and economic simulation, where the player can found an own state and lead it according to his own political ideas.
Developer
Redmaze
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Human Rights
Economics
Public Policy
Public Health
News
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At-Risk (
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18 and up
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At-Risk is an interactive, game-based simulation that aims to reduce the stigma associated with mental illness in order to reduce the number of students with undetected or untreated conditions. Addressing the fear and stigma of mental illness is one key to preparing university faculty and staff to assist students exhibiting symptoms of mental illness, such as depression, anxiety, and thoughts of suicide.
Developer
Kognito Interactive
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Public Health
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Ayiti: The Cost of Life (
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11 and up
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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.
Developer
Global Kids and GameLab
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Human Rights
Poverty
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Balance of the Planet (
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11 and up
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Balance of the Planet simulates nothing less than Earth's ecosystem. Although Maxis' Sim Earth is often credited as the first "ecosim", the title rightfully belongs to Crawford's game. Both games are equally interesting nevertheless, as they use two vastly different approaches to an enormously complex subject.
Developer
Chris Crawford
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Environment
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Branches of Power (
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11 and up
Description
Play all three branches of the U.S. government and experience the powers and limitations of each in trying to get things done!
Developer
Filament Games
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Public Policy
Politics
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Budget Hero (
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Budget Hero seeks to provide a values- and fiscal-based lens for citizens to examine policy debates during this election year.
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Caduceus (
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7 and up
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The Caduceus “Game for Good-Make it Better” — g4gMIB — challenge is the nation’s first online game-a-thon for kids aged 8-12. Kids are invited to apply their passions for games and their “powers for good” to help raise money to fuel the discovery of cures and treatments for serious childhood diseases at Children's Hospital Boston.
Developer
FableVision and MIT Education Arcade
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Other
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Civilization IV: Quality of Life (
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14 and up
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Popular government games view citizens as tools to glorify the governor. Instead, what if we score our quality of life? In this Civilization IV mod, your score is the people's health and happiness. This ethical calculus incentivizes restraint and art. Choose your moral values. Discover the policies you are rewarding.
Developer
Ethan Kennerly
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Economics
Poverty
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Climate Challenge (
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18 and up
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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.
Developer
Red Redemption Ltd.
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Environment
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Community Organizing Toolkit (
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11 and up
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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.
Developer
Doug Nelson
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Public Policy
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Conflitos Globais - América Latina (
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11 and up
Description
The Brazilian version for "Global Conflicts", the Serious Games prize winner, integrates 3D immersion with social networking and action in the field.
Developer
Gilson Schwartz
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Human Rights
Economics
Public Policy
Public Health
Poverty
Environment
Global Conflict
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Connect2Climate (
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ZMQ Software Systems
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CONSENT! (
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14 and up
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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.
Developer
Global Kids/ Digital Refinery
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Politics
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Darfur is Dying (
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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.
Developer
interFUEL, LLC
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Debt Ski (
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mtvU
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Deliver the Net (
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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.
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eLECTIONS: Your Adventure in Politics (
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14 and up
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.
Developer
Cable in the Classroom
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Public Policy
News
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ElectroCity (
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ElectroCity is a new online computer game that lets players manage their own virtual towns and cities. It’s great fun to play and also teaches players all about energy, sustainability and environmental management in New Zealand.
Developer
Genesis Energy
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EnerCities (
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14 and up
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EnerCities is the first serious game on Facebook. It's about energy sources and the balance between people, planet and profit. Can you create a metropolis that stands the test of time?
Developer
Paladin Studios
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Economics
Public Policy
Public Health
Environment
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Energyville (
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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.
Developer
The Economist Group
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Escape from Woomera (
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7 and up
Description
If you thought escaping from Castle Wolfenstein was hard, try Woomera Immigration Reception and Processing Centre...
With a first person, 3D adventure game we invite gamers to assume the character of, and 'live' through the experiences of a modern day refugee. The effective media lock-out from immigration detention centres has meant that the whole truth about what goes on behind the razor-wire at Woomera, Baxter, Port Hedland, Maribyrnong and Villawood remains largely a mystery to the Australian public. We want to challenge this by offering the world a glimpse - more than that even: an interactive, immersive experience - of life within the most secretive and controversial places on the Australian political and geographical landscape. In this way, Escape From Woomera will be an engine for mobilising experiences and situations otherwise inaccessible to an nation of disempowered onlookers. It will provide both a portal and a toolkit for reworking and engaging with what is otherwise an entirely mediated current affair.
Developer
Katharine Neil (aka 'Kipper'), Creative Director, Matthew Jones (aka 'Matt Harrigan'), Programmer
Social Issue Channels
Human Rights
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Farmersi (
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14 and up
Description
Business multiplayer simulation - manage your farm in the Wild West!
Developer
Farmersi Team
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Economics
Other
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Fat World (
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FATWORLD is a video game about the politics of nutrition. It explores the relationships between obesity, nutrition, and socioeconomics in the contemporary U.S.
Developer
Persuasive Games
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Fate of the World (
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11 and up
Description
Save the world or burn it down - it’s your choice! Fate of the World is a unique dramatic global strategy game that puts all our futures in your hands.
Developer
Red Redemption Ltd
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Economics
Public Policy
Public Health
Environment
Global Conflict
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Feed the Rocker (
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14 and up
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Feed the Rocker (Beta) is a casual/social game on Facebook where players journey through a struggling musician’s career by solving puzzles, trading gifts, and reaching ‘Rock Actualization’.
Developer
Red Aphid Games LLC
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Public Health
Poverty
Environment
Other
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Food Force (
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Target Audience
7 and up
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.
Developer
Deepend Srl for the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP)
Social Issue Channels
Poverty
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Food Force 2 (
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Target Audience
7 and up
Description
Food Force 2 : An interactive and Collaborative Learning Platform
Developer
FoodForce2 Developers
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Economics
Public Policy
Public Health
Poverty
Environment
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Free Ranger (
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Target Audience
11 and up
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A better life awaits--for chickens, that is. You are Rex Rooster and you will save your sisters from Kenutky Factory farm. In this casual videogame, experience: Fast puzzle gameplay. Original music. Cartoon animatics. Facts about factory farming.
Developer
Ethan Kennerly, Hans Vancol, Sharon Volin
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Other
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Free Rice (
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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.
Developer
John Breen
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Garbage Glut (
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14 and up
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Garbage Glut is a choose-your-own adventure in waste management, available on Gotham Gazette. The game asks everyone to take a turn as sanitation commissioner, making key decisions about how the city should handle its waste.
Developer
Gotham Gazette with Isotope Media
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Public Policy
Environment
Other
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Global Conflicts: Latin America (
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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.
Developer
Serious Games Interactive
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Human Rights
Poverty
Environment
Global Conflict
Politics
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Global Conflicts: Palestine (
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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.
Developer
Serious Games Interactive
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Human Rights
Global Conflict
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Global Warming Interactive (
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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.
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Go Goat Go (
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Game about the importance of goats to the livelihood of a poor village.
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Christian Aid
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Guardian of Law (
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14 and up
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Guardian of Law is a video game that explores civic and judicial concepts. The player is a legal professional in a science fiction themed society. Players explore a virtual world and argue civil rights cases. Winning cases shows the effects of civil rights on society.
Developer
Filament Games
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Human Rights
Public Policy
Politics
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GumBeat (
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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.
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GAMBIT-MIT Lab
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Harpooned (
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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.
Developer
Conor O'Kane
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Hidden Agenda (
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In Hidden Agenda, you are the new president of Chimerica (a fictive country in Central America). You have been chosen after the citizens overthrew the evil dictator Farsante. The game can be considered good educational material.
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Homeland Guantanamos (
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Homeland Guantanamos is a game designed to spotlight the inhumane conditions faced by 300,000 people in immigrant detention as a result of unfair DHS policies. Players assume the role of an undercover journalist who must uncover the true story of an immigrant who died in ICE custody under questionable circumstances.
Developer
Breakthrough/Free Range Studios
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Homeless: it's no game (
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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.
Developer
Terry Lavender
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http://www.freedomhivaids.in (
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11 and up
Developer
ZMQ
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Public Health
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Hurricane Katrina: Tempest in Crescent City (
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11 and up
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Global 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
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Human Rights
Economics
Poverty
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Hush (
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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.
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Jaimie Antonisse
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Hustlin' Health Care (
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18 and up
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Undercut the competition! Lobby congress! Deny claims! Steal patients! You are an insurance company and it's up to you to stay in business while taking care of your patients. Are you up to the challenge?
Developer
Clay Ewing
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Economics
Public Health
Politics
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ICED - I Can End Deportation (
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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.
Developer
Breakthrough
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Karma Tycoon (
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11 and up
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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
Developer
9mmedia (and Do Something)
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Economics
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Layoff (
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LAYOFF 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
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love letters to the future (
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14 and up
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Love Letters to the Future is cross platform experience designed to raise awareness about the rapidly expanding danger of global warming. It was funded by Greenpeace International and a group of NGO's as an online innovative game, buried artfully in a website that contained user generated letters about the future of our planet. It launched prior to the UN Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen December 2009. The link attached is a video walkthrough of the project. It was recently nominated in best activism category of SXSW web awards,recently won two webby wards
Developer
sara thacher from nonchalance
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Environment
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Martian Boneyards (
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14 and up
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Martian Boneyards is a game of scientific collaboration and problem-solving in the new, spectacular, high definition massively-multiplayer online environment (MMO) called Blue Mars. EdGE@TERC and VSE have teamed together to bring expertise in innovative science education and state-of-the-art MMO gaming technologies to create an unprecedented opportunity for scientific knowledge building.
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EdGE@TERC and VSE
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Environment
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MILLEE: Mobile and Immersive Learning for Literacy in Emerging Economies (
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Cellphone-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
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Mission: Migration (
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Learn how your everyday choices can affect the fate of migrating birds.
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My US Rep (
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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.
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Red Aphid
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Nation States (
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NationStates is a free nation simulation game. Build a nation and run it according to your own warped political ideals. Create a Utopian paradise for society's less fortunate or a totalitarian corporate police state. Care for your people or deliberately oppress them. Join the World Assembly or remain a rogue state. It's up to you. NationStates was created by Max Barry and based loosely on his novel Jennifer Government.
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Max Barry
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Nuclear Weapons: The Peace Dove Game (
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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.
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The United Nations
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Oiligarchy (
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11 and up
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Now you can be the protagonist of the petroleum era: explore and drill around the world, corrupt politicians, stop alternative energies and increase the oil addiction. Be sure to have fun before the resources begin to deplete.
Developer
Molleindustria
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Human Rights
Economics
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Orange Revolution (
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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.
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TakingITGlobal
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Our Courts (
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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.
Developer
Jim Gee
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Participatory Chinatown (
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14 and up
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Participatory Chinatown seeks to pair gaming with the traditional town-hall meeting. Donning virtual avatars, residents explore Chinatown in someone else's shoes to complete virtual quests that highlight planning issues and encourage collaboration and discussion. The game combines virtual interaction, physical deliberation, and Web-based input to foster extended community participation.
Developer
Muzzy Lane
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Public Policy
Environment
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Pathfinder (
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11 and up
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Pathfinder's goal is simple: create a game to arouse high school students' interest in higher education; one that will enable and encourage them to successfully make the journey to and through college.
Developer
University of Southern California Game Innovation Lab
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Other
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PeaceMaker (
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14 and up
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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.
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ImpactGames
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Global Conflict
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Pictures for Truth (
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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.
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Florent Guinier, Karim Osman, Patrick Boutot, Vincent Theriault
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Play the News (
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"Play the News" is an engaging, community-driven experience - imagine fantasy sports meets the evening news. The platform’s goal is to drive “Interactive News” mini games that change news consumption from passive reading to active engagement. The platform is flexible enough to address a range of global and local content.
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ImpactGames LLC
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Pos or Not (
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14 and up
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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.
Developer
VPI
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Public Health
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Precipice (
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11 and up
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A narratively driven 3D game about climate change.
Developer
Centre for Digital Media
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Environment
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Raid Gaza (
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14 and up
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A short game that demonstrates the power imbalance between Israel and Gaza.
Developer
Raitendo
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Global Conflict
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Reach the World’s GeoGames (
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Can 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.
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Reach the World and Dangerous Media, with underwriting support from the National Geographic Society Education Foundation
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Economics
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Real Lives 2010 (
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11 and up
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Real 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.
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Educational Simulations
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Human Rights
Economics
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Poverty
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RePlay: Finding Zoe (
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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.
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METRAC in partnership with Susana Ruiz, Huy Trong, Ashley York
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Runesinger (
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7 and up
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Play 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.
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Poverty
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Seeds (
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14 and up
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Seeds is a thought-provoking, interactive experience that positions players at the center of bio-ethical debate. Part serialized medical drama, part online social game, Seeds prompts and often challenges players to assess their own beliefs to determine an ethical, moral and compassionate solution. Through engaging role-play in which players treat and diagnose infertility using cutting-edge and controversial technologies, players learn how each decision shapes their world and the fate of the characters in it.
Developer
Nahil Sharkasi
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Public Health
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September 12th - A Toy World (
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11 and up
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Highly controversial at its launch in 2003, September 12th’s describes the post 9-11 world. Created by a team of Uruguayan game developers lead by a former CNN journalist, this game virally exposed the futility of the US-led War on Terror.
Developer
Newsgaming.com
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Global Conflict
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