9th Annual Games for Change Festival | New York, June 18-20, 2012

Microsoft Card Game Playtest

Playtest a late-stage prototype card game designed to explore adequate and appropriate privacy and security policies.

What Games Are Good At

Jesse Schell addresses fundamental questions about what games do well, and how they can solve problems.

Part of the Summit: Federal Games Working Group June 2012 Convening

Psychology of Engagement: Essential motivational ingredients for successful gamification

Part of the Summit: Federal Games Working Group June 2012 Convening

NYU Game Center: Agitprop Game Design

Can games contribute to social change as active participants in political issues?

Tools For Making Digital Games

Part of the AMD Summit: Workshops for Teaching Game Design to Youth

Workshop – Game Design 101 with Gamestar Mechanic

Part of the AMD Summit: Workshops for Teaching Game Design to Youth

Workshop – Activate! Making games the active way

Part of the AMD Summit: Workshops for Teaching Game Design to Youth

Opening Keynote: Jane McGonigal

Jane McGonigal game designer and author of Reality Is Broken.

YourTurn! Designing a Music Game for Social Impact

Competition, collaboration and play in a music mash up game.

Game-o-matic: A Tool for Generating Journalistic Games on The Fly

Ian Bogost presents tool for generating newsgames through a simple “concept mapping.”

Case Study: Inside The Haiti Earthquake

See how a story-based simulation from raw documentary footage was created.

Legs vs Fingers: Why Live Games Are A Better Bet for Cultural Spaces Than Digital Projects

Museums can use an awesome interface readily at their disposal to make game.

Agents of Change: A Location-based Game for DC Museums and the Girl Scouts of America

Girl Scout cookies, sadly, not included!

The Next Gen Arcades: Games with Social Impact in Cultural Spaces

Cultural institutions as the next game distribution hubs.

Opening Night Party

Come exchange ideas and network after the first day of events at the Games For Change Festival. Play games in the Kinect Lounge and enjoy a drink on us!

Keynote: Dr. James Paul Gee

Part of the Games For Learning Institute Programming

Deepak Chopra’s Leela – Creating a Video Game to Connect People with Themselves

An accesible meditative experience.

USS Rivet City: Lessons from Modding Fallout 3 for Serious Games Research

Modding Fallout 3 to create a testbed for shipboard navigation skills.

Deconstructing and Rebuilding the Next Evolution in Games: 1979 The Times

Game-Changing Marketing: How Games for Good are Reshaping Cause-Based Consumer Engagement

Good Games Belong in Schools

Part of the Games For Learning Institute Programming

From John Locke to LeapFrog: Three Centuries of Using Play to Promote Learning

Part of the Games For Learning Institute programming

Awards Ceremony

Awards presented for: Most Significant Impact; Most Innovative Game; Best Gameplay; Knight News Game; and Game of the Year.

Closing Keynote: Lucy Bradshaw

Closing: Spotlight on the Industry with Michael Gallagher