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Digital & Technology
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Play the News: Making the News Interactive
Read more: Play the News: Making the News InteractiveFrom Games for Change site: “Play the News” is a web-based platform to bring interactive gaming elements to the online news media industry, and current event based classroom. Impact Games has created an engine to drive “Interactive News” mini games…
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Participatory Chinatown: Promoting Civic Engagement
Read more: Participatory Chinatown: Promoting Civic EngagementTaken from Boston Globe Article: http://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/editorial_opinion/editorials/articles/2010/05/06/chinatown_the_video_game/ WHILE PUBLIC participation is a hallmark of urban planning in Boston, it normally takes the form of long, often windy meetings. In the era of augmented-reality apps and Google Earth, planners need more creative…
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Trash Tycoon: A Game about “Upcycling”
Read more: Trash Tycoon: A Game about “Upcycling”Trash Tycoon is an upcycling social network game developed by Guerillapps. The game applies traditional social gameplay features to highlight real-world issues such as waste, water, and “green” activities. Gameplay includes cleaning trash, recycling, and constructing products and decorations out…
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Food Force: The First Humanitarian Aid Game
Read more: Food Force: The First Humanitarian Aid GameFrom Konami Digital Entertainment (makers of Dance Dance Revolution, Castlevania, and other hits) comes a significant expansion of their long-running support of the World Food Programme’s gaming initiatives. The result is the re-emergence of Food Force, one of the most…
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Our Bookshelf
Read more: Our Bookshelf“Our Bookshelf is a social network where people can share their ebooks as easily as they can share print books. At the moment, most copyrighted ebooks don’t allow you to share them. This is because when you buy an ebook you…
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WeTOPIA, Delivering “Joy” In a Real Way
Read more: WeTOPIA, Delivering “Joy” In a Real WaySojo Studios, a new entertainment company, made plenty of headlines this week with its first social game, WeTopia. The studio is gaining plenty of attention with news of its $8 million arsenal, a roster of partnerships with non-profits like Save…
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8 Extraordinary Greens
Read more: 8 Extraordinary Greens“Jenna has designed an efficient, sub-irrigated system for growing energy-packed plants (microgreens) in small, urban spaces. Her aim: to provide healthy greens to extraordinary people with ordinary incomes. As an urban agricultural design project, she envisions a way to grow…
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Sweatshop A Dark Comedic Game on Offshore Manafacturing
Read more: Sweatshop A Dark Comedic Game on Offshore ManafacturingFrom the Games for Change website: Through a series of thirty challenging levels players must balance the unreasonable demands of Boss, the temperamental factory owner and Boy, a gentle, hard-working child labourer. Together, the team must work to make the…
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EVOKE: Can young adults help solve global problems?
Read more: EVOKE: Can young adults help solve global problems?What happens when a game designer from the Institute of the Future teams up with the World Bank to create a “game for change”? EVOKE is what happens. In this “game” players from all over the world are immersed in a…
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September 12th: A Toy World
Read more: September 12th: A Toy WorldIn September 12th: A Toy World, the designer Gonzalo Frasca seeks to explore the use of games as a form of interactive op-ed. In the game the player is asked to engage in a simple action of dropping bombs to “take…