Real World Games, Real World Impact 92Y

[Ryan Goble]

This is at the 92Y in Tribecca this Friday - looks cool, alas Nicole and I will be out of town:

http://www.gamesforchange.org/

Suzanne Seggerman, President and Co-founder of Games for Change, will
discuss the rise of a new genre of video games - deeply engaging
"socially-conscious" games that embody real world issues such as
poverty, climate change, human rights. She will go inside some of
these new worlds and show how they might help immerse and engage new
audiences in pressing global concerns. She'll show games like
Peacemaker, being played by more than one hundred thousand Palestinian
and Israeli youth; and A Force More Powerful, a peaceful resistance
training game created with student leaders of the Serbian Revolution;
and Food Force, a game created by the UN's World Food Program to teach
kids ages 8-11 about the poverty-fighting work of the UN. Suzanne
believes the next "An Inconvenient Truth" might just be a game - and
she's going to show you why!

Talk Location:
92Y Tribeca
200 Hudson Street @ Laight Street
8pm
Admission: $10

There will be a gathering at the Tribeca Cinemas Lower Lounge after
the talk.