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Games for Change
Entertainment Providers
Empowering game creators and social innovators to drive impact through digital games and immersive technology
About us
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.
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External link for Games for Change
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- Entertainment Providers
- Company size
- 11-50 employees
- Headquarters
- New York
- Type
- Nonprofit
- Founded
- 2004
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205 E 42nd St
New York, 10017, US
Employees at Games for Change
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Leo Olebe
Vice President @ Microsoft, Board Director, Trustee, Ex-Google/YouTube/Facebook
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Matthew Everitt
The Good CFO • Media, Entertainment, Software/SaaS, Nonprofits • Speaker, Mentor, Impact Investor • Former EP NBC World of Dance • Do good things…
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Phil Stuart
ECD @ PRELOADED | Inventing new ways to play | #playwithpurpose #UEFN #XR #AR #metaverse #GeoSpatial | TEDx Speaker | BIMA100 + Immersive council, ex…
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Dan Ayoub
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SXSW Edu 2025 is shaping up to be EPIC! 🔥 Just announced their first 9 featured speakers, and 4 are my absolute edu heroes! From Minecraft magic with Allison Matthews to agent of change Antonio Tijerino plus the amazing Susanna Pollack and Elisa Villanueva Beard ... this is just the beginning! #SXSWEDU2025 is THE place to be for youth-driven change. 👉 Check out the full lineup: https://ow.ly/xkCI50T8IHm Let's catalyze change together! Minecraft Education Hispanic Heritage Foundation Games for Change Teach For America Microsoft Education Mojang Studios SXSW
We are thrilled to announce the first nine Featured Speakers that will join us at #SXSWEDU 2025! ✨🎉 From utilizing video games like Minecraft to bring global awareness and catalyze youth-driven change with Allison Matthews and more, to the power libraries have on children and adults alike with Mychal Threets, hearing from young entrepreneur Annabelle Chang, and so much more, these nine speakers are kicking off our first announcement with a strong start. Dive in: https://ow.ly/xkCI50T8IHm
Announcing the First Nine Featured Speakers Set to Speak at SXSW EDU 2025
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📣 Calling all #GameDevs! Showcase your game in the Diverse Voices, New Stories Challenge with Google Play! Submit your game for a chance to win up to $15,000, mentorship, marketing support, and guidance to port existing games to Andriod! Eligibility: 🌍 Diverse teams or content. 🎮 Non-Android platform. 💰 $10,000/month revenue. ➡️ Must be Android-ready and ported to the Google Play Store by Q2 2025. The deadline is 9/6/24. Learn more: https://buff.ly/3T49jQV
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We are excited to announce that this year Supercell is inviting a delegation of studios from the Global South to attend Games First! Representatives will spend the week in Helsinki to make connections with European studios, tour the city, and join the Games First program on stage to share insights about their local market with hundreds of attendees both in person and online. We are specifically looking for studios in emerging markets from Africa, Latin America, Asia and Oceania. As our guests, your flights, accommodation and activities will be covered by Supercell. Please take a moment to fill out our application form to tell us more about your studio! Applications close August 31st. Apply here: https://supr.cl/gfgs
Games First GS Delegation
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CEO of Azimuth Learning | Partner @ Birnam Wood Consulting | Builder, Educator, and Coach | Ph.D. Candidate | Learning Strategist | VUCA Leadership, Ludic Pedagogy, Community/Organizational Learning
Games! Check this out, educator teams! Azimuth Learning Inc. #gamesforchange
🚨Calling all Educators grades 5 - 12! Bring social impact game design to your classroom and empower your students. Dive into the #G4CStudent Challenge and explore: 📚 FREE Professional Development. 🎮 Access to game tools like Scratch, Game Maker, Unity, and Minecraft. ✏️ Intro to Game Design Curriculum: Adaptable lessons tailored for grades 5-12. 🌍 Impactful Themes: Encourage students to design games inspired by the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals. Apply today ➡️ https://lnkd.in/eDYj_rBh
24-25 SC Educator Application
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Last week I attended Serious Play Conference for the first time. It was an incredible opportunity to meet individuals from diverse fields/backgrounds, from technology design/development to research and education. Thank to Paul Darvasi, Ph.D. the team and the volunteers for bringing up all these individuals together and making this happen! It gave me an opportunity to share my research with others and connect with so many inspiring people there! I did not get the chance to post during the conference but here is the summary/my reflections: - An interesting talk/workshop by Tory Van Voorhis & Jenn McNamara on health games taxonomy. If you are developing a game-based solution, definitely reach out to them! I also had the chance to meet Susan Bonner during this workshop and get to know her exciting works on AR/VR in children. - I could attend Dr. Eliane Biddiss’s talk on the development of their VR game-Bootle Blast, to improve the motor functions of children with CP. So happy to listen to her talk and get the chance to talk to her in person! - A fun workshop by Games for Change about how games can have a social impact! Through a group activity, we incorporated the design cycle, built a new version of tic-tac-toe and learned about 6 parts of the game! So fun! - Another fun workshop which I learned through play about the player types by Jacqueline Lloyd Smith founder of Strategic Play Global! Loved the play chest they made and how you can use it to understand what is your (or employee’s, students’s etc) player type! Also, it was interesting to find out how it could apply to my own research too! - Met an amazing person at this workshop- Farhan Quasem. if you teach sth and want to share it with public through an e-learning system, definitely reach out to him! - And finally, the highlight of the conference for me was, meeting Kimberly Hieftje, PhD I have been following her work and I am so happy that I could attend her talk on “Year of the Cicadas”- a game about loss and grief and find meaning through loss. She shared the process/journey of developing Cody’s legacy- truly emotional-inspiring journey with full of life and research/game development lessons! So glad to meet her in person at their lab booth and hear about their projects! And definitely, so many other amazing individuals whom I talked with during the conference! Hopefully, I can meet this amazing group of people once again soon!
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6-8 Eylül tarihlerinde BAU Galata Kampüsümüzde BUG Lab TEKMER olarak ev sahipliğini yaptığımız, Meta'nın ana sponsor olduğu XR HACKathon etkinliğine gösterdiğiniz büyük ilgi için teşekkürler! Londra ve Köln hackathonları tamamlandı bile. İstanbul hackathonu için başvurular kapanmak üzere. XR (MR/ VR / AR) ve A.I. (yapay zeka) teknolojileri üzerine çalışan, uygulamalar, oyunlar geliştiren tüm geliştiriciler ve tasarımcılar https://lnkd.in/dmBSa5ZM üzerinden başvurarak katılımcı olabilirler. Mentörlerimizden Beril Toper Hocamıza Londra'daki hackathon sırasında hazırladığı video için çok teşekkürler. XR Bootcamp'in global organizasyonuyla gerçekleşen hackathonda, tüm şehirlerde yerel jürilerin değerlendirmesi sonucu üç ana kategoride ödüller verilecek. Yerel ödül sponsorlarımız StartGate “Hobbies & Skill Building” (Hobi ve Beceri Geliştirme) kategorisinde, Atlas Space “Utility & Design” (Faydalı Uygulama & Tasarım) kategorisinde, Ponchiqs “Gaming” (Oyun) kategorisinde birincilere 1000$, ikincilere de 500$’lık ödüllerini takdim edecek. Bu üç kategoride dereceye giren altı proje, hackathon sonrasında oluşturulacak global bir jürinin değerlendirmesi sonrası Meta’nın toplamda 100.000$ değerindeki geliştirme fonundan faydalanma hakkına sahip olacaklar. Ayrıca XR Türkiye tarafından en güçlü sosyal etki gücüne sahip XR deneyimi için 1000$’lık Games for Change özel ödülü, Pearson tarafından Experiental Education Prize (Deneysel Eğitsel Uygulama) ve Logitech tarafından geliştirilen ve henüz piyasaya çıkmamış olmasına rağmen hackathon katılımcılarının kullanımına sunulacak olan MX Ink karma gerçeklik kalemini en iyi kullanan deneyim geliştiricilerine toplamda 6000€ değerinde Best Use of MR Stylus özel ödülleri takdim edilecek. Hackathon sırasında ekiplerin, Meta'nın Quest 3 XR gözlükleriyle deneyimlenebilecek, öncelikli olarak Meta Presence Platform SDK'lerini ve yapay zeka teknolojilerini kullanan, Mixed Reality (passthrough) özelliğine sahip olması beklenen deneyim prototipleri geliştirilmesi hedeflenmektedir. Tüm XR Hack katılımcıları XR Bootcamp tarafından geliştirilen, Quest cihazların kamerasından temin edilen görüntülerin yapay zeka (GPT-4o) tarafında işlenmesine izin veren ilk Unity Plugin’i “Image Capture + AI Kit for Meta Quest’i de ücretsiz kullanma hakkına kavuşacaklar. https://lnkd.in/dJWWTTWP Partnerlerimize teşekkür ediyoruz: Koç Üniversitesi KARMA Mixed Reality Lab XR Türkiye WePlay HUB İstinye Üniversitesi YTU METAM ATOM - ODTU TEKNOKENT Game Factory TOGED Istanbul Bilgi University Bahcesehir University, BAU Hub, BAU TTO #mixedreality, #gamedesign, #ai
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Theory of Knowledge Coordinator and Teacher || University and Careers Counselor || Doctoral Student exploring Epistemic Cognition and Knowledge Management
I was a juror for last year's Games for Change Student Challenge and I saw some excellent student work. This is a great opportunity to develop learners' collaborative capacities, computational thinking, and creative problem-solving skills through engagement with real-world concerns. Check out the most recent awards ceremony hosted by Gerrard Williams: https://lnkd.in/dVMyRuDq #computationalthinking #higherorderthinking #authenticcriticalthinking This is a piece about other videogames celebrated by G4C: https://lnkd.in/d3aZR_eH
🚨Calling all Educators grades 5 - 12! Bring social impact game design to your classroom and empower your students. Dive into the #G4CStudent Challenge and explore: 📚 FREE Professional Development. 🎮 Access to game tools like Scratch, Game Maker, Unity, and Minecraft. ✏️ Intro to Game Design Curriculum: Adaptable lessons tailored for grades 5-12. 🌍 Impactful Themes: Encourage students to design games inspired by the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals. Apply today ➡️ https://lnkd.in/eDYj_rBh
24-25 SC Educator Application
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Did you know that a recent study from Japan found playing video games can positively impact mental health? New research on the Nintendo Switch and Sony PlayStation 5 echoes earlier findings that games can help reduce loneliness, boost cognitive skills, and strengthen social connections, all critical to overall well-being. At this year’s Games for Change Festival I had the joy of chatting with Amir Dossal, Founder & CEO of the Global Partnerships Forum, about how cross-sector partnerships are key for making a lasting impact on the UN SDGs, including well-being. We also explored the Global Mental Health Taskforce’s goals, in collaboration with the Deepak THE CHOPRA FOUNDATION, The CityKids Foundation, Inc., Creative Intelligence Agency, and TheSocialArchitects. Check out the links in the comments to listen to our conversation and learn more about the gaming industry’s role in mental health.
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📣 Chamada para Game Devs que têm o sonho de portar seus games para o mobile! O Desafio Diverse Voices, da Games for Change, está em busca de desenvolvedores que representem a diversidade no mundo dos games. Em parceria com o Google Play, o desafio procura por jogos que tragam à vida personagens únicos e histórias inovadoras, com uma oportunidade de portar esses jogos para Android pela primeira vez. O mercado de jogos mobile é hoje uma das indústrias mais dinâmicas e lucrativas do mundo! Com bilhões de usuários ativos, o mobile oferece uma chance de alcançar um público global, ampliando o impacto e a visibilidade dos jogos. Participar deste desafio não é apenas uma chance de reconhecimento, mas uma porta de entrada para um mercado em constante crescimento, onde as oportunidades são ilimitadas. Os 3 projetos vencedores receberão: 💲 Prêmio em dinheiro: $15.000 para cada vencedor, um apoio financeiro bem bacana para o desenvolvimento do seu jogo. 💬 Mentoria especializada: acesso a especialistas da indústria que irão orientar em cada etapa do processo. 📈 Suporte em marketing: ferramentas e estratégias para maximizar a visibilidade e o sucesso do jogo. 📱 Assistência na portabilidade: todo o suporte necessário para otimizar e adaptar o jogo para Android. Critérios de Participação: ➡ Equipes diversas ou conteúdo inclusivo: projetos que reflitam a riqueza da diversidade cultural e social. ➡ O game não pode estar em Android. ➡ Receita mínima de $10.000 por mês, para demonstrar a viabilidade comercial é essencial. ➡ Portabilidade e publicação: o jogo deve estar pronto para Android e publicado no Google Play Store até o segundo trimestre de 2025. Prazo para inscrição: 6 de setembro de 2024. Aqui está o link para inscrição e mais infos: https://lnkd.in/dv5dG2dm
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