Our post about the Village multiplayer online game has been picked up by another blog, audeamus.com, which has recently covered other such games. They all seem to have a third world/development theme – anyone know of online games covering voluntary sector type issues, which aren’t just glorified marketing videos?
Here’s some quotes and items from Audeamus’ earlier post (6th Nov):
Playing 4 Keeps (P4K) is an innovative youth media project that involves a team of Global Kids youth leaders at South Shore High School in Brooklyn, New York. These young people are learning to develop and produce socially conscious online games, while gaining skills in game design, digital media, leadership, and peer education.
They have developed Ayiti: The Cost of Life, with GameLab and help from Microsoft.
From World Bank’s PSD blog: The simply designed 3rd World Farmer is a serious game that “aims at simulating the real-world mechanisms that cause and sustain poverty in 3rd World countries”.
And on Pienso: Sim*Sweatshop is a new online serious game. In the game you are a sweatshop worker who gets paid $6.05 for a full days work. You work 12 hours per day. If you work hard and well you get all you pay. If not, you will be punished accordingly.
And from a comment on the World Bank blog: ICT4Peace blog has an item on Serious games and peacebuilding, which references a Wikipedia entry on Serious Games – many of those listed seem to be about training in more traditional areas, from a quick glance.
I have recently launched a wiki and a blog dedicated to nonprofit social entrepreneurs making a learning game together to solve the mystery of earned income profitability.
You are cordially invited to Take the Poll: Can making an elearning game together help social entrepreneurs solve the mystery of earned income profitability?
At: http://selearninggames.wikispaces.com/Poll.
You can also access the Poll thru my recent blog post at:
http://selearninggames.wordpress.com
Even more fun: submit your own poll question in the Discussion. I’m thinking this poll widget might be a handy way for us to quickly get at our pressing collective questions about profitability. And lay some groundwork for discovering our collective solutions.
This game is for us to make to serve our own purposes.