While trying to find games that have changed the world, I came across this website "Games for Change"
Founded in 2004, Games for Change facilitates the creation and distribution of social impact games that serve as critical tools in humanitarian and educational efforts.
Founded in 2004, Games for Change facilitates the creation and distribution of social impact games that serve as critical tools in humanitarian and educational efforts.
Unlike the commercial gaming industry, we aim to leverage entertainment and engagement for social good. To further grow the field, Games for Change convenes multiple stakeholders, highlights best practices, incubates games, and helps create and direct investment into new projects
(Taken from http://www.gamesforchange.org)
Phone story: A game that raises awareness about our beloved smart phones, and the dark side of how it is manufactured. The player must symbolically complicit in coltan extraction in Congo, outsourced labour in China, e-waste in Pakistan and gadget consumerism in the West. Banned from the App store, and the money they make is donated to help with these issues, for example, they donated $6000 to a young 19 year old woman who tried committing suicide as an escape from the poor conditions of working in the Foxconns factory.
WAY: In this game, created by CoCo&Co including Chris Bell from ThatGameCompany, players must learn to use a mixture of gestures and simple emotional grunts to guide each other past puzzles.
http://vimeo.com/29251614
There were many other games similar to these, but none of them had a real physical impact on the real world, they were mainly about raising awareness and teaching people about the problems we have in todays society, rather than solving them
There were many other games similar to these, but none of them had a real physical impact on the real world, they were mainly about raising awareness and teaching people about the problems we have in todays society, rather than solving them
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