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Digital or analog games and activities designed to promote civic engagement and awareness through play. Many of the digital games are one-off projects, and aren’t maintained over long periods of time (for example, when browsers remove support for Adobe Flash). Gamification seeks to bring elements and mechanics of gameplay to more arduous tasks, like registering to vote.

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Games for the Many

We’re making games to change the face of politics.

Future Perfect

Future Perfect is a live, choose-your-own-adventure game where players join an imagined society called Tomorrowland.

Public Option for AI (PO4AI)

Public Option for AI (PO4AI) is an immersive experience designed for elected officials and city staff to explore how residents’ voices might be centered in decision-making around public-interest technologies.

Digital Safetea

Digital Safetea

Kampala, Uganda

An interactive game presenting scenarios to learn about existing and emerging digital safety issues

Political Arena

Political Arena

United States of America (the)

Political Arena is a one-of-a-kind strategy/sim about American power where no two playthroughs are the same. Create your own politician and seek fame or infamy in a fully simulated political world, complete with high stakes campaign strategizing, backroom deals, scandals, special interests, and the press. Be the politician of your dreams (or nightmares).

Stop Your Government

The interactive story game aims to inspire young people to stand for what they believe is right and become active in civil society and non-governmental organizations.

Danes je nov dan

Ljubljana, Slovenia based civic tech NGO, focusing efforts on (digital) political participation, open data, transparency, and public institutional oversight.

Fingerspelling

Fingerspelling.xyz is a browser-based app that uses a webcam and machine learning to analyze your hand shapes so you can learn to sign the ASL alphabet correctly.

EyeWire

EyeWire

Boston, MA

A game where players help researchers map the human brain

Serious Games Initiative

The Serious Games Initiative communicates science and policy complexities through the world’s most dynamic medium: gaming.

Camino

Camino

Oakland, California

Camino is a 2D side-scrolling stealth game with Afro-surrealist elements that challenge the player to carefully manage resources and make use of their environment to fight for their loved ones and survive the onslaught of colonization.

SuperSkills!

SuperSkills! is a learning ecosystem, developed by Learning Economy and LEGO Foundation. Children ages 4-12 embark on quests to help save a league of super heroes by participating in learning-through-play activities that send them out into the world of discovery and away from their devices.

BVV-Planspiel

Im BVV-Planspiel machen Sie gemeinsam mit anderen Spieler:innen Bezirkspolitik. In einem konkreten Streitfall entwickeln Sie die Position einer fiktiven Partei und vertreten sie in der BVV. Ziel ist es, einen konkreten Antrag an das Bezirksamt zu richten.

Unity for Nonprofits Offer

Get real-time 3D content creation software for your nonprofit or public library through Unity for Nonprofits at TechSoup.

Cascadia 9 Game

In Cascadia 9.0, you play as several different characters to learn how to survive and thrive in this earth-shaking catastrophe!

Viral Spiral

Viral Spiral is an adaptive digital card game about sharing news on the Internet. The game reflects the ways and reasons misinformation is shared, letting players experience first hand the temptation to share fake news for their own gain and face the consequences of the harm it causes around them.

Survive the Century

You are the senior editor of the world’s most popular and trusted news organization. You have the enviable power to set the news agenda, and thereby shift the zeitgeist.

Persuasive Games

Persuasive Games

Atlanta, GA, USA

We design, build, and distribute videogames for persuasion, instruction, and activism

Troll Factory

Troll Factory was developed by a team of experts at Yle, the Finnish Broadcasting Company.

Fakey

Fakey

Indiana

This game aims to teach media literacy and study how people interact with misinformation.

Copia Gaming

Copia Gaming is our ongoing initiative to design and facilitate a variety of games that explore serious and important subjects.

Harmony Square

a free online game funded by the State Dept. that helps fight #disinformation, now playable in 6 different languages

ArsGames

Arsgames es una asociación cultural que promueve y gestiona proyectos de carácter cultural relacionados con los videojuegos y las nuevas tecnologías a partir de áreas de acción transversales: pedagogía y formación, investigación científica, inclusión digital y participación ciudadana.

Judgment Call

Judgment Call is an award-winning game and team-based activity that puts Microsoft’s AI principles of fairness, privacy and security, reliability and safety, transparency, inclusion, and accountability into action.

Climate Warriors

"a free interactive game available on Minecraft Education Edition and Minecraft Marketplace, designed to teach children as young as 7 how to protect themselves and their homes from bushfires."

The Good, The Bad and The Accountant

You're the general manager of a large city. Balance ethics and corruption to keep your position and get things done. Whatever happens, don't get caught!

Marvellous Mongoose Game

We're working with researchers in the Banded Mongoose Research Project at the University of Exeter to design and build a new online game to understand sociality and cooperation in mongooses, based on their research in Uganda.

@stake

@Stake is a digital multiplayer roleplaying game that fosters creativity and empathy in small group deliberation

Scratch

Scratch is a free programming language and online community where you can create your own interactive stories, games, and animations.

Crowdgauge

Crowdgauge

Des Moines, Iowa, United States

Gauge the values, priorities, and prefrences of the crowd

Bad News

From fake news to chaos! How bad are you? Get as many followers as you can.

CityFlag

CityFlag

Berlin

Civic engagement can take many forms and Cityflag, a mobile phone app that allows citizens to highlight and track local issues, wants to make it just a download away. Along with allowing users to post photos of infrastructure issues, Cityflag incorporates a social media tangent and mapping system where people can share infrastructure and City service […]

Governance game

Governance game

Netherlands (the)

A card game that helps organizations and communities explore governance around a shared codebase, whether hypothetical or in a real-world collaboration.

Cast Your Vote

Cast Your Vote teaches students how to evaluate what they hear politicians say, and to determine if they think they will keep their word in office.

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