Social Issue Games

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Contents 1 Topic Assignments 1.1 Reflect on the Social Issue Games you have played with 1.1.1 Questions 1.2 Choose the Topic for Your Own Social Issue Game 1.2.1 1. Explore Local Themes and Issues that matter to you 1.2.2 2. Choose one issue and find information about it. 1.3 Update the Wiki 1.4 Update the Blog:

Topic summary: A Social issue game is a video game experience that is designed to explore a serious social issue in an interactive and entertaining way that is informative and inspires action. In this topic you will learn about Games for Social Change. In the last topic you explored different social issue games, now its time to pick a social topic for your own game.

Topic Assignments

Reflect on the Social Issue Games you have played with

• Ayiti The Cost of Life
• Food Force
• Darfur is Dying
• More

Questions

• What issue does the game explore?
• Does it do a good job of exploring the social issue?
• Is this game fun or compelling to play?
• Can a game be fun and be good at exploring social issue? How?

Choose the Topic for Your Own Social Issue Game

1. Explore Local Themes and Issues that matter to you

How do the following issues affect your local community?

• Poverty
• Health
• Environment
• Education

2. Choose one issue and find information about it.

• Answer these questions:
  • What do you think is the most important thing people should know about your topic?
  • What actions should people do in order to help with this topic?
  • What do you want someone to learn from your game?

• Use Google to search for information online

• Create a links to multimedia resources about your topic that can inspire your game development. Try to include sounds, images, videos and text.

Update the Wiki

Update your projects page with the lists you created.

Update the Blog:

• Write a Blog post about this topic, share your learning experience!