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7th Annual Games for Change Festival Video Now Online!
Posted by Mark Smith on 08-02-10

Video from the 7th Annual Games for Change Festival is now available online!  Use the widgets after the jump to view the videos by day or you may click here to see all of the videos from G4C.



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Asi Burak and Michelle Byrd Named as Co-Presidents of Games for Change
Posted by Mark Smith on 07-12-10

For Immediate Release – New York, NY (July 12, 2010) – The Board of Directors of Games for Change announced today the appointment of Asi Burak and Michelle Byrd as Co-Presidents of Games for Change, the leading global advocate for making and supporting digital social impact games.

Mr. Burak and Ms. Byrd will work together on the strategic vision of…

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Changing The Climate for Games

Posted by Hsing Wei on 08-12-10

Red Redemption wants to change the world’s climate.  It also wants to change the climate of game development.  Specifically Gobion Rowlands, its founder and CIO (also a G4C board member) is aiming to establish a new market of socially conscious gamers.  Building on the success of Climate Challenge (2006 Flash Game for the BBC) it’s newest game, Fate of the World, is set to release in October.  The game features a dynamically modeled Earth based on real world NASA data and a peer reviewed gas climate model.  Players can purchase the game through Oxfam, which will get a distributors cut.  Rowlands believes that kind of partnership, bringing revenues for both parties, can be a viable way of expanding market reach to niche audiences.  Making a data driven… Continue reading the rest of this post.
  

Virtual to Real Change

Posted by Hsing Wei on 07-22-10

Mirroring the constant evolution of entertainment games, socially conscious games are likewise experimenting with new techniques and platforms.  A recent Adweek article highlights Barefoot Explorers, an iPhone game studio started in 2009 by a former Microsoft executive, as an example of a maturing group of games for change developers with ambitions for production quality and game play that does not sniff of chocolate covered broccoli.  Barefoot Explorers’ first game, Panda Hero, is an eco-adventure game where kids save endangered pandas in the digital world and simultaneously support reforestation in the real world.  Similar to games like freerice.com, three trees are planted (in partnership with non-profit Trees for the Future) each time a customer downloads the game.  Since its release this past April, more than 20,000… Continue reading the rest of this post.