Check out June's jammin' game industry event calendar: https://www.eventsforgamers.com/june-2025-game-industry-conference-and-convention-events-calendar/ 📅
Featured events include ➡️ PocketGamer Connects Barcelona, IQPC's GQFG, and Steam Next Fest
Which are you attending? #GameDev #Conference #Convention #Gamesforum #NarraScope #GamesforChange 🎉
Indie games are changing the world! Small studios craft stories on queerness, mental health, & justice, free from AAA corpo gatekeeping. Think Gone Home but bolder. Support these devs telling our truths! What indie game’s inspiring you? #IndieGames #GamesForChange #QueerGaming #GameDev
Deepak Chopra to Headline 2025 Games for Change Festival as Keynote Speaker on Mental Health and Gaming (EXCLUSIVE)
#Variety #News #DeepakChopra #Gamesforchange #GamesforChangeFestival
https://variety.com/2025/gaming/news/deepak-chopra-games-for-change-festival-2025-1236370176/
I've been thinking a lot about the role of game design in the broader cultural sense. It feels to me that so far the understanding of what game truly are has not really been understood by the vast majority of gamers. If we consider them from the perspective of propaganda (or message carriers if you will) it is clear to me that what they do is not necessarily the face value. A game about tanks that shoot other tanks is on the surface a very shallow/trite message. but if we instead look at the social interactions of a game and how it shapes our behavioral patterns and problem solving skills it becomes very apparent that even the simplest of games carry a lot of mind altering aspects.
Consider the creation of America's Army (AA) as a recruitment tool, and a well documented and effective one at that. The game has a clear interaction pattern which is the traditional get task, do task, get reward loop (in itself a pretty devious way of teaching hierarchic relationships to the players), but underneath/behind that there is another more devious purpose: normalization. AA normalizes the thought of becoming a recruit by telling the players that what they experience in the game is somehow comparable to what they would experience if they joined the army.
Consider how many games that work under a capitalist accumulation theory of economy. Even if it is disguised as a leveling system in a TTRPG or as a Achievement meta system.
Why do we see so few games that try to break out of the current paradigm of hierarchic and capitalistic hellscape? I am sure we have a lot of game designers that crave something else for us all. So why do we keep making models of the same type of structures that we want to get away from? I am sure we have better imaginations than that. Don't we?
A while back me and some friend made a zine creating a few design challenges for game designers who want to break the mold. Check it out.
https://jocher-symbolic-systems.itch.io/fxck-capitalist-game-design-zine
#gamedesign #capitalism #propaganda #theory #transformativegames #gamesforchange #fuckcapitalistgamedesign #imaginaryfutures #exploratory #creativity
I am really curious about #gamesforchange initiative. A festival that is focused on games with social impact. Games do have this impact, but so little of them are serious about it.
https://festival.gamesforchange.org/2024-awards-nominee-overview
Hey there fediverse! ✨
Since I just joined this beautiful platform, I thought I would just introduce myself to all of you.
I love playing and creating colorful, cozy games. Even more so when they have depth and help us heal or transform on a personal or societal level.
I love being creative in many different ways.. music, visual art, programming...
I also have a never ending curiosity about the big questions in life. Reading about big history, anthropology and philosophy is one of my favorite things to do.
So a while back I decided to simply follow all of those passions and started developing "The Human Story" - a game about exploring the pluriverse of human history.
I hope to have a demo out soon!
Up until then, you can wishlist the game on Steam: https://store.steampowered.com/app/2082690/The_Human_Story/
I also make devlogs once in a while on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCFm-maNxR4Ur3zN68pKVWgA
Say hi in the comments if you want. Hope to meet you out there somewhere!
#introduction #gamedev #indie #history #GamesForChange #IndieDev #cozygames
Non me a cui piaceva questo concept ma ero tirchio e quindi l'ho rifatto in #Blender, no. 🧵
#EduGames #DevCommunity #EduTech #Facts #NoFakeNews #GameCreators #GameDesign #GameDev #GamesForChange #IndieGameDev #PlayToLearn #GameBasedLearning #MediaLiteracy #InfoWars #TruthSeekers #FactCheck #MediaLiteracyMatters #ThinkBeforeYouShare #SeriousGames
@weiming @isaaccp @futurebird @dynamic @nerd4cities as someone who studies human motivation and behavior change, this made me wonder whether simulating real cities w/ warts (parking lots) and all using #SimCity or other games could be used to help change voters’ support for zoning policy changes #GamesForChange #G4C #GamesForHealth
The weeklong Games for Change festival kicks off tomorrow in NYC. For more about this event, visit https://jasong.us/43d8oji. For more events like this, visit https://jasong.us/events.
#g4c #xr4c #gamesforchange #games #events #xr #games #videogames #gamefestival #gamingevents #gaming
I was really excited to hear about the US Dpt of Justice's use of LARPs / simulations to build empathy for people reentering society after incarceration: https://www.npr.org/2023/07/11/1186916648/a-reentry-simulation-program-shows-reality-of-life-after-prison
My workplace hosted simulations to build empathy for low income families trying to make ends meet.
As #TTRPG designers we know how to conjure immersive environments for our players. Is there a bridge between our craft and these real-world interventions?
#GamesForChange
Hi Everyone!
Totally new here so I thought a brief #introduction post might be in order!
I'm Chris, a lifelong gamer (since the ZX81... yes, that long ago!) now taking a first proper dive into game development - with 1-bit games in #Lua for the new #playdate console.
Interests include:
‣ #writing (used to do corporate copy and ads, now more interested in short fiction/games)
‣ #gaming
‣ #vr
‣ #gamedev (Playdate at the moment, its a great platform for learning!)
‣ #behavioralscience (was my job, remains an interest)
‣ #sustainability
‣ #GamesForChange
I'm also a father of three, which means I have a handy built-in test/QA department for my game ideas!
Looking forward to learning, chatting and maybe even collaborating!
