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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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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

The Revolution of Our Times

An Android game that provided users with an immersive role playing experience of the 2019 Hong Kong protests

Suffragetto game

Suffragetto game

United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (the)

Players take on the role of suffragettes trying to occupy the House of Commons, or police officers trying to break up the protest.

Bite the Ballot

Bite the Ballot

United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (the)

Bite The Ballot is an international social enterprise that specialises in civic and community engagement. Our charity has grown from an idea in a classroom to coordinating world-record breaking campaigns, changing laws and rebranding politics among young and socially-excluded communities.

Choose Your Own Fake News game

Choose Your Own Fake News is an interactive "choose your own adventure" game.

Weather or Not

Weather or Not is a simple game designed to introduce the basics of forecast-based humanitarian decisions.

Governance game

Governance game

Netherlands (Nederland, Holland)

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.

Fort Vancouver

Mobile storytelling project at the Fort Vancouver National Historic Site

Bury me my love

Bury me, my Love tells Nour’s story as she flees Syria and tries to reach Europe. But why did the young woman decide to leave?

RePresent

RePresent

Connecticut

RePresent is a law game that provides self-represented parties in Connecticut with foundational advocacy experience.

Civiclub

Welcome to CiviClub. A community of people who think that being responsible with our society and our environment is not an obligation but a great opportunity.

Bad News

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

March for Our Lives

Join the movement. Sign up to join us on the Road to Change, where we'll be registering people to vote across the country and demanding change to save lives.

Before the Storm

Before the Storm

Greeley Square Station 4 East 27th Street New York, NY 10001-9998

A game of forecasts and action

Games for Cities City-Game Database

This is a growing collection of games that improve city making

Onewheel

Get ready to ride the best motorized skateboard when you buy a Onewheel today! Designed and made in California from the highest quality components.

Manahatta

Mannahatta: The Game is a location-based game for the iPhone that maps Manhattan's historical ecosystem onto its modern day streets

Scratch

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

Games for Change

Founded in 2004, Games for Change facilitates the creation and distribution of social impact games that serve as critical tools in humanitarian and educational

Spielclub Oranienstraße 25

Spielclub Oranienstraße 25

Oranienstraße 25, 10999 Berlin, Germany

Built as a microcosm of Berlin, the game gives kids a chance to try out different roles in city life – and provides a testbed for ideas on real urban challenges

Get Bad News

A game that puts you in the mindset of propagandists and agents promoting fake news, propaganda and hate-speech to help the user understand how fake news is made and promoted

OmaStad Game

OmaStad Game

Helsinki, Finland

A card game for making suggestions on participatory budgeting

Macon Money

Wilson Center Commons Lab: “In 2011, residents of Macon, Georgia received over $65,000 in free local currency—with a catch."

NeMO-Net

NeMO-Net

NASA, East Nasa Parkway, Houston, TX, USA

NeMO-Net is a single player iPad game where players help NASA classify coral reefs by painting 3D and 2D images of coral.

Anti-Monopoly

The basic idea of the game is to end the monopolistic practices of the 3-company-combinations of the game board.

Block By Block Minecraft participatory planning workshops

Did you know that you can use Minecraft for more than a simple fun? Learn about great Block by Block initiative for community participation in urban design.

PETLab at Parson's

PETLab at Parson's

Greeley Square Station 4 East 27th Street New York, NY 10001-9998

iCivics

iCivics

1035 Cambridge Street, Cambridge, MA 02141, USA

iCivics works to ensure every student in America receives a quality and engaging civic education and graduates from high school well prepared and enthusiastic for citizenship

Block'hood

Block’hood is a city building simulator video game that focuses on ideas of ecology, interdependence and decay.

Crowdgauge

Crowdgauge

Des Moines, Iowa, United States

Gauge the values, priorities, and prefrences of the crowd

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

Fake it to make it

Create your own (fake) news empire by playing Fake It To Make It, a simulation-style, social-impact game about how fake news is created and distributed for a profit.

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