Game Industry Raises $1.15 Million for Next Generation of Developers

#GamingIndustry #Education #Scholarships #GamesForChange #AusNews #AIGenerated

https://thedailyperspective.org/article/2026-03-18-game-industry-raises-1-15-million-for-next-generation-of-developers-c520a447

It's finally here! Last winter I wrote a chapter to this cool book about climate and games industry. It's an honor to be featured together with so many experienced writers and game developers!

#igdaclimatesig #climategames #ecogames #greengames #playing4planet #gamesforchange #climatecrisis #gamedev

Check out June's jammin' game industry event calendar: https://www.eventsforgamers.com/june-2025-game-industry-conference-and-convention-events-calendar/ 📅

Featured events include ➡️ PocketGamer Connects Barcelona, IQPC's GQFG, and Steam Next Fest

Which are you attending? #GameDev #Conference #Convention #Gamesforum #NarraScope #GamesforChange 🎉

Deepak Chopra to Headline 2025 Games for Change Festival as Keynote Speaker on Mental Health and Gaming (EXCLUSIVE)
#Variety #News #DeepakChopra #Gamesforchange #GamesforChangeFestival

https://variety.com/2025/gaming/news/deepak-chopra-games-for-change-festival-2025-1236370176/

I've been thinking a lot about the role of game design in the broader cultural sense. It feels to me that so far the understanding of what game truly are has not really been understood by the vast majority of gamers. If we consider them from the perspective of propaganda (or message carriers if you will) it is clear to me that what they do is not necessarily the face value. A game about tanks that shoot other tanks is on the surface a very shallow/trite message. but if we instead look at the social interactions of a game and how it shapes our behavioral patterns and problem solving skills it becomes very apparent that even the simplest of games carry a lot of mind altering aspects.

Consider the creation of America's Army (AA) as a recruitment tool, and a well documented and effective one at that. The game has a clear interaction pattern which is the traditional get task, do task, get reward loop (in itself a pretty devious way of teaching hierarchic relationships to the players), but underneath/behind that there is another more devious purpose: normalization. AA normalizes the thought of becoming a recruit by telling the players that what they experience in the game is somehow comparable to what they would experience if they joined the army.

Consider how many games that work under a capitalist accumulation theory of economy. Even if it is disguised as a leveling system in a TTRPG or as a Achievement meta system.

Why do we see so few games that try to break out of the current paradigm of hierarchic and capitalistic hellscape? I am sure we have a lot of game designers that crave something else for us all. So why do we keep making models of the same type of structures that we want to get away from? I am sure we have better imaginations than that. Don't we?

A while back me and some friend made a zine creating a few design challenges for game designers who want to break the mold. Check it out.

https://jocher-symbolic-systems.itch.io/fxck-capitalist-game-design-zine

#gamedesign #capitalism #propaganda #theory #transformativegames #gamesforchange #fuckcapitalistgamedesign #imaginaryfutures #exploratory #creativity

I am really curious about #gamesforchange initiative. A festival that is focused on games with social impact. Games do have this impact, but so little of them are serious about it.

https://festival.gamesforchange.org/2024-awards-nominee-overview

#videogames #gamedev #gaming #g4c #g4c2024 #indiegamedev

Hey there fediverse! ✨​

Since I just joined this beautiful platform, I thought I would just introduce myself to all of you.

I love playing and creating colorful, cozy games. Even more so when they have depth and help us heal or transform on a personal or societal level.

I love being creative in many different ways.. music, visual art, programming...

I also have a never ending curiosity about the big questions in life. Reading about big history, anthropology and philosophy is one of my favorite things to do.

So a while back I decided to simply follow all of those passions and started developing "The Human Story" - a game about exploring the pluriverse of human history.

I hope to have a demo out soon!

Up until then, you can wishlist the game on Steam: https://store.steampowered.com/app/2082690/The_Human_Story/

I also make devlogs once in a while on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCFm-maNxR4Ur3zN68pKVWgA

Say hi in the comments if you want. Hope to meet you out there somewhere!

#introduction #gamedev #indie #history #GamesForChange #IndieDev #cozygames

Non me a cui piaceva questo concept ma ero tirchio e quindi l'ho rifatto in #Blender, no. 🧵

#EduGames #DevCommunity #EduTech #Facts #NoFakeNews #GameCreators #GameDesign #GameDev #GamesForChange #IndieGameDev #PlayToLearn #GameBasedLearning #MediaLiteracy #InfoWars #TruthSeekers #FactCheck #MediaLiteracyMatters #ThinkBeforeYouShare #SeriousGames