{"id":133,"date":"2009-05-08T10:55:54","date_gmt":"2009-05-08T15:55:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/games\/?p=133"},"modified":"2013-09-26T14:42:48","modified_gmt":"2013-09-26T19:42:48","slug":"games-for-change-boston-workshop-wrapup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/games\/2009\/05\/08\/games-for-change-boston-workshop-wrapup\/","title":{"rendered":"Games for Change Boston &#8211; workshop wrapup"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/groups.google.com\/group\/games4change-boston\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/games\/files\/2009\/05\/gamesforchange-boston-300x191.png\" alt=\"Games for Change - Boston\" width=\"300\" height=\"191\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-134\" srcset=\"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/games\/files\/2009\/05\/gamesforchange-boston-300x191.png 300w, https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/games\/files\/2009\/05\/gamesforchange-boston.png 376w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>At this year&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.igceast.com\/\">Independent Game Conference &#8211; East<\/a>, the <a href=\"http:\/\/groups.google.com\/group\/games4change-boston\">Boston chapter of Games for Change<\/a> ran a prototyping workshop with some 30 conference participants. The goal: brainstorm game concepts addressing one of the three issues targeted by our three participating nonprofits: <a href=\"http:\/\/teachforamerica.org\">Teach for America<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/mercycorps.org\">Mercy Corps<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/tbf.org\">the Boston Foundation<\/a>&#8216;s youth violence initiative. Participants generated a wide range of concepts ranging from learning puzzles to augmented reality and game design challenges. Just as interesting, goals ranged from educating players to fostering community to shaping real-world behaviors.<\/p>\n<p>For our next act, Boston Games for Change will host a gamejam to move one or more of these basic concepts into a working prototype. In the meantime, we&#8217;ll be representing at the 6th Annual Games for Change Festival in New York, May 27-29. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gamesforchange.org\/fest2009\">Register now!<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At this year&#8217;s Independent Game Conference &#8211; East, the Boston chapter of Games for Change ran a prototyping workshop with some 30 conference participants. The goal: brainstorm game concepts addressing one of the three issues targeted by our three participating &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/games\/2009\/05\/08\/games-for-change-boston-workshop-wrapup\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":271,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[113393,2550],"tags":[1495],"class_list":["post-133","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-archival","category-opinion-advocacy","tag-games-for-change"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/games\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/games\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/games\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/games\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/271"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/games\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=133"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/games\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":406,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/games\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133\/revisions\/406"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/games\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=133"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/games\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=133"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/games\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=133"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}