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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 (0 comments)
Age Range Ages 11 and up 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.
Developer
3rd World Farmer Team
Social Issue Channels
Economics, Global Conflict, Politics, Poverty
A Force More Powerful (0 comments)
Age Range Ages 14 and up 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
Developer
International Center on Nonviolent Conflict, York Zimmerman Inc. and BreakAway Games
Social Issue Channels
Public Policy
A Moose's Love (0 comments)
Age Range Ages 3 and up Description
A Moose's Love is an allegorical game about a marginalized moose trying to grow his tree of happiness. This was created as an experiment in communicating a message primarily through the rule system.
Developer
Mike Treanor, Teale Fristoe and William Manegold
Social Issue Channels
News, Politics, Public Policy
A Seat At The Table (0 comments)
Age Range Ages 7 and up 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.
Social Issue Channels
Economics, Poverty
Against All Odds (0 comments)
Age Range Ages 14 and up 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.
Developer
UNHCR: The UN Refugee Agency
Social Issue Channels
Global Conflict, Human Rights
Akrasia (0 comments)
Age Range Ages 14 and up 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.
Developer
Doris Rusch
Social Issue Channels
Public Health
Ars Regendi (0 comments)
Age Range Ages 11 and up Description
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
Social Issue Channels
Economics, Human Rights, News, Politics, Public Health, Public Policy, Youth-Produced
At-Risk - Identify and Refer Students in Mental Distress (0 comments)
Age Range Ages 18 and up Description
At-Risk is a web-based training simulation designed to help university faculty identify, approach, and refer students in mental distress to the campus counseling center. Utilizing Kognito’s patent-pending Human-Interaction Simulation Platform, users learn by engaging in simulated conversations with virtual characters that posses their own emotions and memory.
Developer
Kognito Interactive
Social Issue Channels
Other
Ayiti: The Cost of Life (0 comments)
Age Range Ages 11 and up 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.
Developer
Global Kids and GameLab
Social Issue Channels
Human Rights, Poverty, Youth-Produced
Balance of Power (0 comments)
Age Range Ages 11 and up Description
The goal of the game ist to conquer all countries. To reach this goal, every player has a certain amount of credits he can invest into the building and movement of armies, the creation of cities or the development in his countries.
Developer
Christian Busch
Social Issue Channels
Global Conflict, Politics
Balance of the Planet (0 comments)
Age Range Ages 7 and up Description
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
Social Issue Channels
Environment
Budget Hero (0 comments)
Age Range Ages 11 and up Description
Budget Hero seeks to provide a values- and fiscal-based lens for citizens to examine policy debates during this election year.
Social Issue Channels
Economics
Caduceus (0 comments)
Age Range Ages 7 and up Description
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
Social Issue Channels
Other
Civilization IV: Quality of Life (0 comments)
Age Range Ages 14 and up Description
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
Social Issue Channels
Economics, Politics
Climate Challenge (0 comments)
Age Range Ages 18 and up 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.
Developer
Red Redemption Ltd.
Social Issue Channels
Environment, Politics
Community Organizing Toolkit (0 comments)
Age Range Ages 11 and up 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.
Developer
Doug Nelson
Social Issue Channels
Public Policy
Connect2Climate (0 comments)
Age Range Ages 11 and up
Developer
ZMQ Software Systems
Social Issue Channels
Environment
CONSENT! (0 comments)
Age Range Ages 14 and up 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.
Developer
Global Kids/ Digital Refinery
Social Issue Channels
Politics, Youth-Produced
Darfur is Dying (0 comments)
Age Range Ages 18 and up 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.
Developer
interFUEL, LLC
Social Issue Channels
Global Conflict
Debt Ski (0 comments)
Age Range Ages 14 and up
Developer
mtvU
Social Issue Channels
Economics, Youth-Produced
Deliver the Net (0 comments)
Age Range Ages 7 and up 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.
Social Issue Channels
Public Health
ECON 201: Principles of Microeconomics (0 comments)
Description
The player lands on a post-apocalyptic earth and learns economics through a variety of subjects. Players must make ethical decisions. They face a disease outbreak, scarcity of resources, even an approaching devastating storm. They are introduced to historical examples of how people on earth handled similar problems in the past.
Developer
Univeristy of North Carolina at Greensboro
eLECTIONS: Your Adventure in Politics (0 comments)
Age Range Ages 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
Social Issue Channels
News, Public Policy
ElectroCity (0 comments)
Age Range Ages 7 and up Description
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
Social Issue Channels
Environment
Energyville (0 comments)
Age Range Ages 14 and up 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.
Developer
The Economist Group
Social Issue Channels
Economics, Environment
Escape from Woomera (0 comments)
Age Range Ages 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
Fat World (0 comments)
Age Range Ages 7 and up 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.
Developer
Persuasive Games
Social Issue Channels
Public Health
Fistful of Dollars (0 comments)
Age Range Ages 14 and up Description
This game teaches the dynamics and challenges of managing working capital; accounts receivable, inventory and accounts payable
Developer
Acton Foundation for Entrepreneurial Excellence and ViaVivo, Inc.
Social Issue Channels
Economics, Other
Food Force (1 comment)
Age Range Ages 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
Free Ranger (0 comments)
Age Range Ages 11 and up Description
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
Social Issue Channels
Other
Free Rice (0 comments)
Age Range Ages 7 and up 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.
Developer
John Breen
Social Issue Channels
Poverty
Garbage Glut (0 comments)
Age Range Ages 14 and up Description
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
Social Issue Channels
Environment, Public Policy, Other
Global Conflicts: Latin America (0 comments)
Age Range Ages 11 and up 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.
Developer
Serious Games Interactive
Social Issue Channels
Global Conflict
Global Conflicts: Palestine (0 comments)
Age Range Ages 11 and up 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.
Developer
Serious Games Interactive
Social Issue Channels
Global Conflict
Global Warming Interactive (0 comments)
Age Range Ages 14 and up 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.
Social Issue Channels
Environment
Globaloria Student Produced Games:The Zeitgest; The Ultimate Lunch Tray; Jimmy vs. the Splurge (0 comments)
Age Range Ages 7 and up Description
These games are all samples of original social-issue web-games students (10-24 years old) created using the Globaloria platform and curriculum. The Globaloria Program is a virtual network for learning social-issue web-game design that empowers youth with the digital literacies to actively participate and lead in today’s new media world.
Developer
Globaloria Students (10-24 years): The Zeitgeist: The Five Experimental Ninjas, RTC (High School) & MCTC (College), WV; The Ultimate Lunch Tray: The ReThinkers, Middle School, New Orleans; Jimmy vs. the Splurge: John Rhea, American University, DC
Social Issue Channels
Economics, Environment, Human Rights, Politics, Public Health, Public Policy, Youth-Produced
Go Goat Go (1 comment)
Age Range Ages 3 and up Description
Game about the importance of goats to the livelihood of a poor village.
Developer
Christian Aid
Social Issue Channels
Poverty
Guardian of Law (0 comments)
Age Range Ages 14 and up Description
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
Social Issue Channels
Human Rights, Politics, Public Policy
GumBeat (0 comments)
Age Range Ages 7 and up 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.
Developer
GAMBIT-MIT Lab
Social Issue Channels
Human Rights
Harpooned (0 comments)
Age Range Ages 7 and up 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.
Developer
Conor O'Kane
Social Issue Channels
Environment
Heifer Virtual Village: Nepal (0 comments)
Age Range Ages 18 and up Description
Heifer Virtual Village: Nepal is browser-based real-time 3D simulation where the player's character must navigate a virtual Nepalese environment, interact with other characters in the village, and correctly complete tasks associated with the game's goal.
Developer
ForgeFX
Social Issue Channels
Poverty
Hidden Agenda (0 comments)
Age Range Ages 7 and up Description
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.
Social Issue Channels
Global Conflict
Homeland Guantanamos (0 comments)
Age Range Ages 18 and up Description
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
Social Issue Channels
Human Rights, Other
Homeless: it's no game (0 comments)
Age Range Ages 11 and up 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.
Developer
Terry Lavender
Social Issue Channels
Poverty
Hurricane Katrina: Tempest in Crescent City (0 comments)
Age Range Ages 11 and up Description
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
Social Issue Channels
Economics, Environment, Human Rights, News, Politics, Poverty, Youth-Produced
Hush (0 comments)
Age Range Ages 11 and up 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.
Developer
Jaimie Antonisse
Social Issue Channels
Global Conflict
ICED - I Can End Deportation (0 comments)
Age Range Ages 14 and up 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.
Developer
Breakthrough
Social Issue Channels
Human Rights
Karma Tycoon (0 comments)
Age Range Ages 11 and up 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
Developer
9mmedia (and Do Something)
Social Issue Channels
Economics, Poverty
Layoff (0 comments)
Age Range Ages 11 and up Description
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
Social Issue Channels
Economics, News, Poverty, Public Policy
MILLEE: Mobile and Immersive Learning for Literacy in Emerging Economies (0 comments)
Age Range Ages 7 and up Description
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
Social Issue Channels
Poverty, Other
Mission: Migration (0 comments)
Age Range Ages 7 and up Description
Learn how your everyday choices can affect the fate of migrating birds.
Social Issue Channels
Environment
My US Rep (0 comments)
Age Range Ages 14 and up 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.
Developer
Red Aphid
Social Issue Channels
Politics
Nation States (0 comments)
Age Range Ages 11 and up Description
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.
Developer
Max Barry
Social Issue Channels
Politics
Ninjabi (0 comments)
Age Range Ages 7 and up Description
Ninjabi is an empowerment fantasy game set in the Muslim world, where a young woman dares to defy the rules and fight for her rights. The main character, Layla, undertakes small acts of rebellion, in order to gather her strength and the strength of her community to fight back against her oppressors.
Developer
Sean Bouchard & Nahil Sharkasi, USC Interactive Media Division
Social Issue Channels
Human Rights
Nuclear Weapons: The Peace Dove Game (0 comments)
Age Range Ages 14 and up 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.
Developer
The United Nations
Social Issue Channels
Global Conflict
Oiligarchy (0 comments)
Age Range Ages 11 and up Description
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
Social Issue Channels
Economics, Environment, Human Rights, Politics
Operation: Resilient Planet (0 comments)
Age Range Ages 7 and up Description
Sharks! Invasive species! Dismantled oil platforms! Our Resilient Planet is under constant pressure and it needs you to protect and defend our vital ecosystems. Your success depends on your ability to use the right tools, gather the right data and make the right decisions about our planet.
Developer
Filament Games
Social Issue Channels
Environment
Orange Revolution (0 comments)
Age Range Ages 11 and up 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.
Developer
TakingITGlobal
Social Issue Channels
Global Conflict, Politics
Our Courts (0 comments)
Age Range Ages 11 and up 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.
Developer
Jim Gee
Social Issue Channels
Public Policy
PeaceMaker (0 comments)
Age Range Ages 14 and up 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.
Developer
ImpactGames
Social Issue Channels
Global Conflict, News, Politics
Pictures for Truth (0 comments)
Age Range Ages 11 and up 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.
Developer
Florent Guinier, Karim Osman, Patrick Boutot, Vincent Theriault
Social Issue Channels
Human Rights
Play the News (0 comments)
Age Range Ages 14 and up Description
"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.
Developer
ImpactGames LLC
Social Issue Channels
Global Conflict, News, Politics, Public Policy
Pos or Not (0 comments)
Age Range Ages 14 and up 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.
Developer
VPI
Social Issue Channels
Public Health
Raid Gaza (0 comments)
Age Range Ages 14 and up Description
A short game that demonstrates the power imbalance between Israel and Gaza.
Developer
Raitendo
Social Issue Channels
Global Conflict, News
Reach the World’s GeoGames (0 comments)
Age Range Ages 3 and up Description
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.
Developer
Reach the World and Dangerous Media, with underwriting support from the National Geographic Society Education Foundation
Social Issue Channels
Economics, Poverty, Youth-Produced, Other
Real Lives 2010 (0 comments)
Age Range Ages 11 and up Description
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.
Developer
Educational Simulations
Social Issue Channels
Economics, Global Conflict, Human Rights, Politics, Poverty, Public Health
RePlay: Finding Zoe (0 comments)
Age Range Ages 7 and up 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.
Developer
METRAC in partnership with Susana Ruiz, Huy Trong, Ashley York
Social Issue Channels
Public Health
RoboRush! (0 comments)
Age Range Ages 14 and up Description
RoboRush teaches the process of starting a bootstrap business. The audience is aspiring entrepreneurs.
Developer
Acton Foundation for Entrepreneurial Excellence and ViaVivo, Inc.
Social Issue Channels
Economics, Other
Runesinger (0 comments)
Age Range Ages 7 and up Description
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.
Social Issue Channels
Poverty, Other
September 12th - A Toy World (0 comments)
Age Range Ages 11 and up Description
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
Social Issue Channels
Global Conflict, News, Politics
Serious Policy (0 comments)
Age Range Ages 14 and up Description
The SeriousPolicy Game sets the player on a mission to win Treasury funding for a new policy.
Developer
PlayGen
Social Issue Channels
Public Policy
SimEP (Solid Waste Management Computer Game) (1 comment)
Age Range Ages 7 and up 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.
Developer
Hong Kong Productivity Council
Social Issue Channels
Environment
Stop Disasters (0 comments)
Age Range Ages 7 and up 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.
Developer
Playerthree
Social Issue Channels
Public Health, Public Policy
The Arcade Wire: Airport Security (0 comments)
Age Range Ages 7 and up 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.
Developer
Persuasive Games
Social Issue Channels
Politics
The Arcade Wire: Oil God (0 comments)
Age Range Ages 14 and up 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.
Developer
Persuasive Games
Social Issue Channels
Economics, Environment, Public Policy
The Budget Maze (0 comments)
Age Range Ages 14 and up Description
Players in Gotham Gazette's web-based Budget Maze navigate a dreary dungeon. At various rooms, the player must find the zombie who holds the answers to a question about the city or state budget process in order to move forward.
Developer
Gotham Gazette with Forum One
Social Issue Channels
Economics, News, Politics, Public Policy
The Garbage Game (0 comments)
Age Range Ages 11 and up 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.
Developer
Gotham Gazette
Social Issue Channels
Environment, News, Public Health
The Great Green Game (0 comments)
Age Range Ages 11 and up Description
This game tests your knowledge of how consumer choices affect the environment.
Developer
The Union of Concerned Scientists
Social Issue Channels
Environment
The Redistricting Game (1 comment)
Age Range Ages 14 and up 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.
Developer
USC Game Innovation Lab
Social Issue Channels
Public Policy
The Vinyl Game (0 comments)
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Age Range Ages 14 and up 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!
Developer
Zelian
Social Issue Channels
Economics, Environment
Traces of Hope (0 comments)
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.
Developer
British Red Cross
Social Issue Channels
Global Conflict
WolfQuest (0 comments)
Age Range Ages 7 and up Description
WolfQuest is an interactive 3D wildlife simulation computer game. WolfQuest players take on the role of a wolf living in Yellowstone National Park. Through trial and error, instinct and experience, players learn about the life of a wolf as they hunt and interact with other wolves.
Developer
MN Zoo and eduweb
Social Issue Channels
Environment, Other
World Without Oil (0 comments)
Age Range Ages 11 and up 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.
Developer
Writerguy LLA
Social Issue Channels
Environment
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