Can video games change the world? Some designers think that they can at least have a positive impact. Games for Change is a collaborative project aimed at making video games with a social conscience. Their 6th annual Games for Change festival is this week. Here to talk about their work are Suzanne Seggerman, President and co-founder of Games for Change, Asi Burak, co-founder of ImpactGames and the Executive Producer of Peacemaker, and Executive Director of Breakthrough Mallika Dutt.
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Great segment. I was thinking of this a few couple of years back and not too long ago sent an email to an old friend co-worker of mine who’d earlier done official ports of the SIMs games to Sun boxes, and asked if he write a game like SIMpeachment or the like as a good educational real world simulation game of what’s been going on to help people understand the process we SHOULD have done the last year or two so it wasn’t as intimidating for the average person to call out our reps to do!
Didn’t hear back from him, and it’s probably too late now. Perhaps now someone should do a line of the “SINS” games instead of the SIMS, and have games like:
SINcorporated
SINvestigation
SINdictThem
SINterrogation
SINdebtedness
SINsuranceMess
SINglePayer
I think these could be made to be VERY fun by many frustrated folk out there now!
By Cascadiance on May 29th, 2009 at 7:05 pm