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A Force More Powerful (0 comments)
Age Range 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 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
Public Policy
News
Politics
Against All Odds (0 comments)
Age Range 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
Human Rights
Global Conflict
Akrasia (0 comments)
Age Range 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
Ayiti: The Cost of Life (0 comments)
Age Range 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
Balance of Power (0 comments)
Age Range 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
Civilization IV: Quality of Life (0 comments)
Age Range 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
Poverty
Community Organizing Toolkit (0 comments)
Age Range 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
Conflitos Globais - América Latina (0 comments)
Age Range 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
Social Issue Channels
Human Rights
Economics
Public Policy
Public Health
Poverty
Environment
Global Conflict
News
Politics
Other
CONSENT! (0 comments)
Age Range 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
eLECTIONS: Your Adventure in Politics (0 comments)
Age Range 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
Public Policy
News
Food Force 2 (0 comments)
Age Range 7 and up
Description
Food Force 2 : An interactive and Collaborative Learning Platform
Developer
FoodForce2 Developers
Social Issue Channels
Economics
Public Policy
Public Health
Poverty
Environment
Free Ranger (0 comments)
Age Range 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
Garbage Glut (0 comments)
Age Range 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
Public Policy
Environment
Other
Globaloria Student Produced Games:The Zeitgest; The Ultimate Lunch Tray; Jimmy vs. the Splurge (0 comments)
Age Range 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
Human Rights
Economics
Public Policy
Public Health
Environment
News
Politics
Guardian of Law (0 comments)
Age Range 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
Public Policy
Politics
It's Your Call (0 comments)
Age Range 11 and up
Description
It's Your Call is an interactive game that invites your students to play out difficult situations through the online program before they live them out in real life. Targeted to teens, this game offers guidance about responsible behavior and teaches them how to use technology to enhance their personal safety. In this interactive game, students become a live-action character and are challenged to make a series of difficult decisions in a slice-of-life context. Following these decisions, your students view the consequences of their actions within the context of this interactive video. Regardless of the outcome in the game, users learn important lessons about cell phone safety and responsibility.
Developer
Will Interactive
Social Issue Channels
Public Health
Other
Ninjabi (0 comments)
Age Range 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
Oiligarchy (0 comments)
Age Range 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
Human Rights
Economics
Environment
Politics
Operation: Resilient Planet (0 comments)
Age Range 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
PeaceMaker (0 comments)
Age Range 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
Pos or Not (0 comments)
Age Range 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
Precipice (0 comments)
Age Range 11 and up
Description
A narratively driven 3D game about climate change.
Developer
Centre for Digital Media
Social Issue Channels
Environment
Raid Gaza (0 comments)
Age Range 14 and up
Description
A short game that demonstrates the power imbalance between Israel and Gaza.
Developer
Raitendo
Social Issue Channels
Global Conflict
News
Real Lives 2010 (0 comments)
Age Range 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
Human Rights
Economics
Public Policy
Poverty
Global Conflict
Politics
Runesinger (0 comments)
Age Range 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
WolfQuest (0 comments)
Age Range 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
