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CHANNEL LIST: Browse games by Social Issue Categories
COMPLETE GAME LIST:
3rd World Farmer [view profile]
URL: www.3rdworldfarmer.com
Developer: 3rd World Farmer Team
Description: 3rd World Farmer lets players manage a small farm in a developing country, and thus experience the hardships and dilemmas faced by the poor.
A Force More Powerful [view profile]
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
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.
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.
Community Organizing Toolkit [view profile]
URL: www.organizinggame.org/
Developer: Doug Nelson
CONSENT! [view profile]
URL: http://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.
Creative Express [view profile]
URL: www.Madcaplogic.com
Developer: Madcap Logic LLC
Description: Flash based, 3D animated program teaches Tweens the language of art as it helps develop creativity, visualization and problem solving skills. 16 main lessons, 100's of interactivities and projects.
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.
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.
Free Rice [view profile]
URL: www.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.
Giant Tank [view profile]
URL: http://www.deserthat.com/?p=games/gianttank
Developer: Devin Monnens
Description: Giant Tank is an antiwar game. Giant Tank depicts a battle between a soldier with a rifle and a tank. You are not the tank.
Homeless: it's no game [view profile]
URL: www.homelessgame.net
Developer: Terry Lavender
Description: You're homeless and alone. Can you survive on the city streets for 24 hours with your dignity intact?
Hurricane Katrina Hero (not real title, to be decided) [view profile]
URL: TBD
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.
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.
Karma Tycoon [view profile]
URL: 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
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.
Melting Point [view profile]
URL: cognitoy.com/meltingpoint
Developer: CogniToy, LLC
Description: The Melting Point web game is designed to provide a gentle introduction to the biggest issue around human-caused global warming -- the problem of energy. It asks players to balance the energy needs and economic growth of regions around the world against the accumulation of carbon dioxide (CO2), one of the leading greenhouse gases.
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.
Operation: Resilient Waters [view profile]
URL: www.jason.org
Developer: Filament Games
Description: This game is a 3D experience that places you in the role of an explorer working alongside real National Geographic scientists to gather data and use it to preserve or save an ecosystem. Players uncover relationships in aquatic ecology that support their scientific findings, share Data, and earn Prestige!
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.
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.
Pictures for truth [view profile]
URL: http://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.
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.
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.
Pos or Not [view profile]
URL: www.posornot.com
Developer: VPI
Real Lives [view profile]
URL: www.educationalsimulations.com
Developer: Educational Simulations
Description: Real Lives is a simulations of life from birth to death in any country of the world.
RePlay [view profile]
URL: Will be posted on www.metrac.org by end of May 2007
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.
Save Swampy Mobile Game [view profile]
URL:
Developer: Miki Pierre
Description: Swampy's is a one-button mobile game. The goal of the game is to help the main character, a little frog named Swampie, keep his swamp clean by destroying trash falling onto the screen.
