Games for Change

Heard this on the (podcasted) radio: Video-Game Designers Target World Peace

A group of game designers says taht video-game technology can help save the world by raising humanitarian awareness. The creators of free educational games such as Darfur is Dying and PeaceMaker met with humanitarian activists during the third-annual Games for Change conference in New York.

When I was in college, a neighbor in the fraternity house had a game on his Mac where one played the Prime Minister of Israel trying to bring about Middle East peace. Nuclear war, terrorism, arms embargoes and all the rest were part of the equation. It wasn’t an easy game. It sounds like it was a precursor to the modern Peacemaker.

It sounds like this was a pretty interesting conference.

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