6th Annual Games for Change Festival

66 W. 12th St.
New York, NY

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Games for Change is happy to announce the 2009 Sixth Annual Games for Change Festival to be held in New York City!

 

This May, the only festival dedicated to the exciting new movement of Digital Games for Social Change will explore real-world impact, the latest games, and funding strategies. Hosted in New York City by Parsons The New School for Design, the 6th annual Games for Change Festival will take place May 27 – 29, 2009.

 

The Annual Games for Change Festival brings together the world’s leading foundations, NGOs, game-makers, academics, and journalists to explore how best to harness this incredibly powerful medium to help address the most critical issues of our day, from poverty, climate change, global conflicts, to human rights. Every year, the festival doubles in size and brings in new, high-impact partners.

 

The festival includes 3 exciting days of panels, keynotes and brainstorming sessions, private events for journalists and foundations, as well as an evening games Expo media event and reception where attendees can play these new games first-hand. Called "the Sundance of video games" for "socially-responsible game-makers" we’re promoting a new genre of video game – games to change the world – for the better.

 

Our opening keynote is author and Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Nicholas Kristof of the New York Times.

 

Other featured speakers include James Paul Gee, Mary Lou Fulton Presidential Chair in Literacy Studies at Arizona State University; Seth Scheisel, New York Times game critic; Tracy Fullerton, Director of the Electronic Arts Game Innovation Lab and author of Game Design Workshop: A Playcentric Approach to Designing Innovative Games; Mary Flanagan, Director of the Tiltfactor Lab; Ian Bogost, CEO of Persuasive Games and author of Unit Operations: An Approach to Videogame Criticism; Heather Chaplin, journalist (NPR, NYT) and author of Smart Bomb, and many others.

 

Back by popular demand is the 101 Workshop on May 27 for those new to making social issue games. And this year we'll be featuring the first-ever Newsgame Award at the Expo Night on May 28th, sponsored by the Knight Foundation. And as always, we'll have expert panels, provocative lunch discussions, and ample networking opportunities.

 

Location:

Wednesday, May 27:
Parsons The New School for Design
Theresa Lang Student Center, 2nd Floor
55 West 13th St.
New York, NY

 

Thursday and Friday May 28 - 29 at:
Tishman Auditorium Parsons, The New School for Design
66 West 12th St.
New York, NY

 

For more information, please see the festival web site: http://gamesforchange.org/fest2009

 

Join us in this exciting and important new field!

 

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12/23/2008 by NYC_GI

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