<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; "><DIV>Following up on that, if anyone is interested:</DIV><BR><DIV><BR><DIV>Begin forwarded message:</DIV><BR class="Apple-interchange-newline"><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" color="#000000" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; color: #000000"><B>From: </B></FONT><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">Suzanne Seggerman <<A href="mailto:suzanne@weblab.org">suzanne@weblab.org</A>></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" color="#000000" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; color: #000000"><B>Date: </B></FONT><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">July 18, 2007 11:33:43 AM EDT</FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" color="#000000" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; color: #000000"><B>To: </B></FONT><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">"ITP Alumni" <<A href="mailto:itp-alumni@forums.nyu.edu">itp-alumni@forums.nyu.edu</A>></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" color="#000000" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; color: #000000"><B>Subject: </B></FONT><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica"><B>Re: innovative gamers who work on more social issue projects?</B></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" color="#000000" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; color: #000000"><B>Reply-To: </B></FONT><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">"ITP Alumni" <<A href="mailto:itp-alumni@forums.nyu.edu">itp-alumni@forums.nyu.edu</A>></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><BR></DIV> <BR> Hi everybody,<BR><BR> 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.)<BR><BR> If you want to see some of the games coming out of the community check out those at our festival last month: <A href="http://gamesforchange.org/conference/2007/expo.php" eudora="autourl"> http://gamesforchange.org/conference/2007/expo.php</A><BR><BR> And some nice press we've received: <A href="http://gamesforchange.org/conference/2007/press.php" eudora="autourl"> http://gamesforchange.org/conference/2007/press.php</A><BR><BR> Here's our web site: <A href="http://www.gamesforchange.org/" eudora="autourl"> http://www.gamesforchange.org</A>, and the new one will launch within the month with profiles of all of the games, tutorials, etc.<BR><BR> 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.<BR><BR> Please feel free to join the community! (Here's the listserv: <A href="http://www.gamesforchange.org/info/Lists" eudora="autourl"> http://www.gamesforchange.org/info/Lists</A>)<BR><BR> Cheers,<BR><BR> Suzanne<BR><BR> <BR><BR> At 10:08 AM 7/18/2007, you wrote:<BR> <BLOCKQUOTE type="cite" class="cite" cite="">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.<BR><BR> <A href="http://www.gamelab.com">http://www.gamelab.com</A><BR> <A href="http://www.globalkids.org/" eudora="autourl"> http://www.globalkids.org/</A><BR><BR> 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.<BR><BR> -e<BR><BR> On Jul 18, 2007, at 9:41 AM, evan.raskob [lists] wrote:<BR><BR> <BLOCKQUOTE type="cite" class="cite" cite="">Funny, the email right before yours in my inbox is titled "serious games" and lists these:<BR><BR> <A href="http://www.newsgaming.com/games/index12.htm"> http://www.newsgaming.com/games/index12.htm</A><BR><BR> By way of this article:<BR> <A href="http://www.gamasutra.com/view/feature/1465/who_says_video_games_have_to_be_.php"> http://www.gamasutra.com/view/feature/1465/who_says_video_games_have_to_be_.php</A> <BR><BR> And the irony is that it the article mentions ITP's own Suzanne Seggerman.<BR> Ah, serendipity.<BR><BR> <BR> Cheers<BR> Evan<BR><BR> <BR><BR> On Jul 18, 2007, at 8:29 AM, Bruni Burres wrote:<BR><BR> <BLOCKQUOTE type="cite" class="cite" cite=""><FONT size="2">Any suggestions will be greatly appreciated.<BR> I have missing pixel on my list already...<BR> thanks, bruni<BR><BR> --<BR> Bruni Burres<BR> Film Festival Director<BR> Human Rights Watch<BR> 350 Fifth Avenue, 34th floor<BR> New York, NY 10118-3299<BR> (tel) 212 216 1264<BR> (fax) 212 736 1300<BR> email: <A href="mailto:burresb@hrw.org">burresb@hrw.org</A><BR> <A href="http://www.hrw.org/iff" eudora="autourl"> http://www.hrw.org/iff</A><BR><BR> </FONT>---<BR> You are currently subscribed to itp-alumni as: <A href="mailto:lists@lowfrequency.org">lists@lowfrequency.org</A><BR> To unsubscribe send a blank email to <A href="mailto:%%email.unsub%%">%%email.unsub%%</A> </BLOCKQUOTE><BR> ---<BR> You are currently subscribed to itp-alumni as: <A href="mailto:eric@transmote.com">eric@transmote.com</A><BR> To unsubscribe send a blank email to <A href="mailto:%%email.unsub%%"> %%email.unsub%%</A> </BLOCKQUOTE><BR> ---<BR> You are currently subscribed to itp-alumni as: <A href="mailto:suzanne@gamesforchange.org">suzanne@gamesforchange.org</A><BR> To unsubscribe send a blank email to %%email.unsub%% </BLOCKQUOTE> <X-SIGSEP><P> o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o<BR> Suzanne Seggerman<BR> President, Co-founder<BR> Games for Change<BR> <A href="http://www.gamesforchange.org/" eudora="autourl"> http://www.gamesforchange.org<BR> </A><A href="mailto:suzanne@gamesforchange.org">suzanne@gamesforchange.org</A><BR> 917.478.4772 (cell)<BR><BR> "<I>Tell me, and I forget. <BR> Teach me, and I remember. <BR> Involve me, and I learn</I>." <BR> <X-TAB> </X-TAB>- Benjamin Franklin ---<BR> You are currently subscribed to itp-alumni as: lists@lowfrequency.org<BR> To unsubscribe send a blank email to leave-itp-alumni-1377200K@forums.nyu.edu </P></X-SIGSEP></BLOCKQUOTE></DIV><BR></BODY></HTML>