Games and gamification
Digital or analog games and activities designed to promote civic engagement and awareness through play. Many of the digital games are one-off projects, and aren’t maintained over long periods of time (for example, when browsers remove support for Adobe Flash). Gamification seeks to bring elements and mechanics of gameplay to more arduous tasks, like registering to vote.
Suggested reading:
- Progress in Play: Board Games and the Meaning of History – A history of board games and the powerful ideologies embedded within them, by Alex Andriesse, Public Domain Review (2019)
- How Minecraft Is Teaching Kids to Face the Threat of Climate Change – A case study of efforts to teach young children in Australia about climate action through the incredibly popular game.
- The gamification of journalism. Anna Thulin looks at how games and gamification can be used in journalism to build audience engagement and loyalty.
Fingerspelling
Fingerspelling.xyz is a browser-based app that uses a webcam and machine learning to analyze your hand shapes so you can learn to sign the ASL alphabet correctly.
The Webby Awards: Games - Social Impact
An award for the best games for social impact of the year
EyeWire
A game where players help researchers map the human brain
Serious Games Initiative
The Serious Games Initiative communicates science and policy complexities through the world’s most dynamic medium: gaming.
Camino
Camino is a 2D side-scrolling stealth game with Afro-surrealist elements that challenge the player to carefully manage resources and make use of their environment to fight for their loved ones and sur...
SuperSkills!
SuperSkills! is a learning ecosystem, developed by Learning Economy and LEGO Foundation. Children ages 4-12 embark on quests to help save a league of super heroes by participating in learning-through-...
Electronic Arts Accessibility Patent Pledge
The gaming giant is making its accessibility-related patents royalty-free
BVV-Planspiel
Im BVV-Planspiel machen Sie gemeinsam mit anderen Spieler:innen Bezirkspolitik. In einem konkreten Streitfall entwickeln Sie die Position einer fiktiven Partei und vertreten sie in der BVV. Ziel ist e...
Unity for Nonprofits Offer
Get real-time 3D content creation software for your nonprofit or public library through Unity for Nonprofits at TechSoup.
UndiMsia!
Building DIY action communities by activating the youth vote.
Cascadia 9 Game
In Cascadia 9.0, you play as several different characters to learn how to survive and thrive in this earth-shaking catastrophe!
Viral Spiral
Viral Spiral is an adaptive digital card game about sharing news on the Internet. The game reflects the ways and reasons misinformation is shared, letting players experience first hand the temptation...
Data Playbook V1
Improve your team's data knowledge and skills
Survive the Century
You are the senior editor of the world’s most popular and trusted news organization. You have the enviable power to set the news agenda, and thereby shift the zeitgeist.
Persuasive Games
We design, build, and distribute videogames for persuasion, instruction, and activism
Troll Factory
Troll Factory was developed by a team of experts at Yle, the Finnish Broadcasting Company.
PolitiTruth
PolitiTruth is a non-profit game of distinguishing political fact from fiction.
Fakey
This game aims to teach media literacy and study how people interact with misinformation.
Facticious
News game based on sorting fake and real news
Judgment Call
Judgment Call is an award-winning game and team-based activity that puts Microsoft’s AI principles of fairness, privacy and security, reliability and safety, transparency, inclusion, and accountabilit...
ArsGames
Arsgames es una asociación cultural que promueve y gestiona proyectos de carácter cultural relacionados con los videojuegos y las nuevas tecnologías a partir de áreas de acción transversales: pedagogí...
Copia Gaming
Copia Gaming is our ongoing initiative to design and facilitate a variety of games that explore serious and important subjects.
Harmony Square
a free online game funded by the State Dept. that helps fight #disinformation, now playable in 6 different languages
Trashy garbage-sorting game
The New York Times's interactive on what belongs in the trash and what gets recycled
Climate Warriors
"a free interactive game available on Minecraft Education Edition and Minecraft Marketplace, designed to teach children as young as 7 how to protect themselves and their homes from bushfires."
The Good, The Bad and The Accountant
You're the general manager of a large city. Balance ethics and corruption to keep your position and get things done. Whatever happens, don't get caught!
Marvellous Mongoose Game
We're working with researchers in the Banded Mongoose Research Project at the University of Exeter to design and build a new online game to understand sociality and cooperation in mongooses, based on...
캠페이너 인생게임 | 툴킷 (Campaigner Life Game)
An IRL game where you try to recruit 1,000 supporters to your campaign
@stake
@Stake is a digital multiplayer roleplaying game that fosters creativity and empathy in small group deliberation
Empaville
Participation simulator game and card deck
Manahatta
Mannahatta: The Game is a location-based game for the iPhone that maps Manhattan's historical ecosystem onto its modern day streets
Onewheel
Get ready to ride the best motorized skateboard when you buy a Onewheel today! Designed and made in California from the highest quality components.
Games for Cities City-Game Database
This is a growing collection of games that improve city making
Executive Command
Ever wondered how you’d do as President of the United States? Find out with Executive Command!
Before the Storm
A game of forecasts and action
March for Our Lives
Join the movement. Sign up to join us on the Road to Change, where we'll be registering people to vote across the country and demanding change to save lives.
FoldIt
Choose Your Own Fake News game
Choose Your Own Fake News is an interactive "choose your own adventure" game.
Bite the Ballot
Bite The Ballot is an international social enterprise that specialises in civic and community engagement. Our charity has grown from an idea in a classroom to coordinating world-record breaking campai...
Suffragetto game
Players take on the role of suffragettes trying to occupy the House of Commons, or police officers trying to break up the protest.
Block By Block Minecraft participatory planning workshops
Did you know that you can use Minecraft for more than a simple fun? Learn about great Block by Block initiative for community participation in urban design.
Bury me my love
Bury me, my Love tells Nour’s story as she flees Syria and tries to reach Europe. But why did the young woman decide to leave?
Fake it to make it
Create your own (fake) news empire by playing Fake It To Make It, a simulation-style, social-impact game about how fake news is created and distributed for a profit.
Flourish! Local economies game
We made a board game to discuss local economic policy ideas.
Block'hood
Block’hood is a city building simulator video game that focuses on ideas of ecology, interdependence and decay.
iCivics
iCivics works to ensure every student in America receives a quality and engaging civic education and graduates from high school well prepared and enthusiastic for citizenship
PETLab at Parson's
Beautiful Trouble Card Deck
A card deck for revolution
Anti-Monopoly
The basic idea of the game is to end the monopolistic practices of the 3-company-combinations of the game board.
NeMO-Net
NeMO-Net is a single player iPad game where players help NASA classify coral reefs by painting 3D and 2D images of coral.