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Updates from the Festival
Photos from the 2009 Games for Change Festival
Posted by Mark Smith on 06-04-09
Browse our slideshow of images from the 2009 festival and 101 workshop!
Created with Admarket’s flickrSLiDR.
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G4C Festival Day 2 Summary
Posted by Mark Smith on 05-30-09
Posted by Emily Kornblut
This year’s Festival wrapped up with its third day of keynotes, panels, and conversations, with speakers throughout the day not only exploring how social issues can be integrated into games, but also considering how the best of gaming can create social change in the world.
To open the final day, Henry…
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Food Force 2 Beta Release
Posted by Hsing Wei on 06-29-09
Belated posting on the beta release of Food Force 2. This open source sequel of the World Food Program’s Food Force game aims for a more holistic approach to educating and motivating people to solve world hunger. Taking on the role of an Indian village administrator; by constructing facilities, upgrading facilities, and trading resources, the player aims to make a village self-sustaining in terms of nutrition, housing, health, education and training (nice screen shots on their wiki). While able to run on almost all platforms, Food Force 2 has been under development for the XO—an aligned channel since OLPC reaches out to developing and third-world countries.
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Check out G4C President Suzanne Seggerman’s Slightly Embarrassing Pop!Cast
Posted by Mark Smith on 02-26-09
Suzanne was honored to be invited to present at Pop!Tech - a conference dedicated to innovative ideas - this past year, and her talk has been released. Aside from the public speaking horror in the middle and the emotional breakdown at the end, we think the G4C message prevails. If you’d like to see a brief overview of what G4C is all about, this is one good place to start. And please do feel free to pass it along!
Check out the video here.
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