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The Democracy Machine
Read more: The Democracy MachineThe Democracy Machine! is a performative sculpture that gives participants the opportunity to experience the thrill of democracy in action, in a competitive game that challenges people to work together toward understanding a better society. Using the spectacle and play…
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Find the Future
Read more: Find the FutureFind the Future: The Game is a pioneering, interactive experience created especially for NYPL’s Centennial by famed game designer Jane McGonigal, with Natron Baxter and Playmatics. Through a once-in-a-lifetime, overnight adventure played inside the Stephen A. Schwarzman Building, and an…
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The Online Game that Plants Real Seeds: Rainmaker Project
Read more: The Online Game that Plants Real Seeds: Rainmaker ProjectBy Jeff McIntire-Strasburg You could certainly be forgiven for seeing phrases like “online game” and “planting seeds” together, and automatically thinking of Farmville: even though the Facebook game has died down in popularity, its still the standard for gaming about…
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Games for Change
Read more: Games for ChangeGames for Change is a community of game designers, activists, artists and individuals focused on creating and using digital games for purposes of social change. Games for Change is a large and loose community, but it has a major nonprofit…
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Howitcouldbedifferent.org – a wikipedia of ideas for improvement and social change
Read more: Howitcouldbedifferent.org – a wikipedia of ideas for improvement and social changeHave you ever wanted to see current or potential innovations for poverty or the environment without having to do a lot of researching or reading? Have you ever thought of an idea and wanted to tell the world about it…
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“Guerras Electorales”….a game that mimics electoral fraud
Read more: “Guerras Electorales”….a game that mimics electoral fraudRight before the presidential elections in Mexico, planned for July of 2012, a local software enterprise has developed a smart-phone game that shows how to commit fraud at the elections. The game, called Guerras Electorales (Electoral Wars)and created by a…
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52 Shades of Greed: An Illustrated Education
Read more: 52 Shades of Greed: An Illustrated EducationAfter being contacted by a member of the Occupy Wall Street Alternative Banking group , illustrator Marc Scheff agreed to do a few drawings for a deck of cards depicting some of the people and institutions responsible for causing the…
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Ayti: Youth-Produced Game about Haiti
Read more: Ayti: Youth-Produced Game about HaitiFrom Games for Change site: Global Kids has established itself as an innovative leader in using online games to promote global awareness and engaged citizenship. Through the Playing 4 Keeps program, Global Kids trains urban youth to develop games about…
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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…