[fluxus] serious games

[evan.raskob [lists]]

Following up on that, if anyone is interested:


Begin forwarded message:

> From: Suzanne Seggerman <suzanne at weblab.org>
> Date: July 18, 2007 11:33:43 AM EDT
> To: "ITP Alumni" <itp-alumni at forums.nyu.edu>
> Subject: Re: innovative gamers who work on more social issue projects?
> Reply-To: "ITP Alumni" <itp-alumni at forums.nyu.edu>
>
>
> Hi everybody,
>
> Games for Change is the non-profit I co-founded (with Barry Joseph  
> of Global Kids and Ben Stokes of NetAid), which is sort of like a  
> little sundance for social-issue video games, supporting a new  
> field like sundance did for indie films.  We have an annual  
> festival now in its fourth year, and listserv with close to 1000  
> people, and are in the midst of starting a lab at Parsons, the New  
> School.  (Eric Zimmerman is on our board, BTW, and has been a great  
> supporter.)
>
> If you want to see some of the games coming out of the community  
> check out those at our festival last month: http:// 
> gamesforchange.org/conference/2007/expo.php
>
> And some nice press we've received: http://gamesforchange.org/ 
> conference/2007/press.php
>
> Here's our web site: http://www.gamesforchange.org, and the new one  
> will launch within the month with profiles of all of the games,  
> tutorials, etc.
>
> We've also been funded by the MacArthur Foundation as part of their  
> new $50M Digital Media and Learning Initiative, like gameLab's Game  
> Designer project mentioned below.  MacArthur will be announcing a  
> competition later this summer to fund individual new media projects  
> - I will make sure to send the announcement to this list.
>
> Please feel free to join the community!  (Here's the listserv:  
> http://www.gamesforchange.org/info/Lists)
>
> Cheers,
>
> Suzanne
>
>
>
> At 10:08 AM 7/18/2007, you wrote:
>> gamelab is currently working on a game to teach kids concepts of  
>> game design, basically a combination game and game editor.  can't  
>> speak about it in detail here unfortunately, but let me know if  
>> you're interested in hearing more.  also, gamelab completed a game  
>> last fall called "Ayiti" that involved balancing resources to get  
>> a haitian family education, food, employment, and other things  
>> necessary for a good life.  that was in conjunction with Global Kids.
>>
>> http://www.gamelab.com
>> http://www.globalkids.org/
>>
>> also, mary flanagan, up at hunter, has been working on the  
>> Rapunzel project for a while (dunno if it's still in active  
>> development).  the idea is to create a game that teaches girls  
>> (middle-high school-aged i think) how to code and how to use code  
>> to create digital games.  i believe ITP's daniel howe worked on it  
>> too.
>>
>> -e
>>
>> On Jul 18, 2007, at 9:41 AM, evan.raskob [lists] wrote:
>>
>>> Funny, the email right before yours in my inbox is titled  
>>> "serious games" and lists these:
>>>
>>> http://www.newsgaming.com/games/index12.htm
>>>
>>> By way of this article:
>>> http://www.gamasutra.com/view/feature/1465/ 
>>> who_says_video_games_have_to_be_.php
>>>
>>> And the irony is that it the article mentions ITP's own Suzanne  
>>> Seggerman.
>>> Ah, serendipity.
>>>
>>>
>>> Cheers
>>> Evan
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On Jul 18, 2007, at 8:29 AM, Bruni Burres wrote:
>>>
>>>> Any suggestions will be greatly appreciated.
>>>> I have missing pixel on my list already...
>>>> thanks, bruni
>>>>
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>>>> Human Rights Watch
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>>>> New York, NY  10118-3299
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