[fluxus] serious games

Wed Jul 18 22:51:49 PDT 2007

i think of fluxus being in this path already, but im not really sure on 
how is a serious game supposed to be, in my father's view game is about 
gambling and he can know nothing about computers, but he is good with 
games so i think that this at least looks like a nice bet, but then like 
in Suzanne's signature subtle things can make more to it than what we 
really intend to do, its all in the eyes of the observer.

evan.raskob [lists] escreveu:
> Following up on that, if anyone is interested:
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> Begin forwarded message:
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>> *From: *Suzanne Seggerman <suzanne at weblab.org 
>> <mailto:suzanne at weblab.org>>
>> *Date: *July 18, 2007 11:33:43 AM EDT
>> *To: *"ITP Alumni" <itp-alumni at forums.nyu.edu 
>> <mailto: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 
>> <mailto: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 
>> <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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>> Suzanne Seggerman
>> President, Co-founder
>> Games for Change
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