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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

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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

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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

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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

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Branches of Power     (0 comments)

Age Range 11 and up

Description
Play all three branches of the U.S. government and experience the powers and limitations of each in trying to get things done!

Developer
Filament Games

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Public Policy
Politics

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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

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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

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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

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Human Rights
Economics
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Public Health
Poverty
Environment
Global Conflict
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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

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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

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Public Policy
News

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EnerCities     (0 comments)

Age Range 14 and up

Description
EnerCities is the first serious game on Facebook. It's about energy sources and the balance between people, planet and profit. Can you create a metropolis that stands the test of time?

Developer
Paladin Studios

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Economics
Public Policy
Public Health
Environment
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Farmersi     (0 comments)

Age Range 14 and up

Description
Business multiplayer simulation - manage your farm in the Wild West!

Developer
Farmersi Team

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Economics
Other

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Fate of the World     (0 comments)

Age Range 11 and up

Description
Save the world or burn it down - it’s your choice! Fate of the World is a unique dramatic global strategy game that puts all our futures in your hands.

Developer
Red Redemption Ltd

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Economics
Public Policy
Public Health
Environment
Global Conflict
News
Politics

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Feed the Rocker     (0 comments)

Age Range 14 and up

Description
Feed the Rocker (Beta) is a casual/social game on Facebook where players journey through a struggling musician’s career by solving puzzles, trading gifts, and reaching ‘Rock Actualization’.

Developer
Red Aphid Games LLC

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Public Health
Poverty
Environment
Other

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Food Force 2     (0 comments)

Age Range 7 and up

Description
Food Force 2 : An interactive and Collaborative Learning Platform

Developer
FoodForce2 Developers

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Economics
Public Policy
Public Health
Poverty
Environment

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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

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Other

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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

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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

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Human Rights
Public Policy
Politics

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http://www.freedomhivaids.in     (0 comments)

Age Range 11 and up


Developer
ZMQ

Social Issue Channels
Public Health

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love letters to the future     (0 comments)

Age Range 14 and up

Description
Love Letters to the Future is cross platform experience designed to raise awareness about the rapidly expanding danger of global warming. It was funded by Greenpeace International and a group of NGO's as an online innovative game, buried artfully in a website that contained user generated letters about the future of our planet. It launched prior to the UN Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen December 2009. The link attached is a video walkthrough of the project. It was recently nominated in best activism category of SXSW web awards,recently won two webby wards

Developer
sara thacher from nonchalance

Social Issue Channels
Environment

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Martian Boneyards     (0 comments)

Age Range 14 and up

Description
Martian Boneyards is a game of scientific collaboration and problem-solving in the new, spectacular, high definition massively-multiplayer online environment (MMO) called Blue Mars. EdGE@TERC and VSE have teamed together to bring expertise in innovative science education and state-of-the-art MMO gaming technologies to create an unprecedented opportunity for scientific knowledge building.

Developer
EdGE@TERC and VSE

Social Issue Channels
Environment
Other

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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

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Human Rights
Economics
Environment
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Participatory Chinatown     (0 comments)

Age Range 14 and up

Description
Participatory Chinatown seeks to pair gaming with the traditional town-hall meeting. Donning virtual avatars, residents explore Chinatown in someone else's shoes to complete virtual quests that highlight planning issues and encourage collaboration and discussion. The game combines virtual interaction, physical deliberation, and Web-based input to foster extended community participation.

Developer
Muzzy Lane

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Public Policy
Environment
Politics
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Pathfinder     (0 comments)

Age Range 11 and up

Description
Pathfinder's goal is simple: create a game to arouse high school students' interest in higher education; one that will enable and encourage them to successfully make the journey to and through college.

Developer
University of Southern California Game Innovation Lab

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Other

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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Human Rights
Economics
Public Policy
Poverty
Global Conflict
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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

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Seeds     (0 comments)

Age Range 14 and up

Description
Seeds is a thought-provoking, interactive experience that positions players at the center of bio-ethical debate. Part serialized medical drama, part online social game, Seeds prompts and often challenges players to assess their own beliefs to determine an ethical, moral and compassionate solution. Through engaging role-play in which players treat and diagnose infertility using cutting-edge and controversial technologies, players learn how each decision shapes their world and the fate of the characters in it.

Developer
Nahil Sharkasi

Social Issue Channels
Public Health
Other

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