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Global Warming Can Be Fun

Saving the planet one game at a time.

Archive for 2007/06


My 15 minutes…all in one week

It’s been a good week for me in the press. The weekend before last included the OLPC game jam, as well as my son’s high school graduation and the start of the Games For Change festival in New York.
There was an article in Mass High Tech on serious games in which I was featured:
But […]

G4C — Alan Gershenfeld

Audience about 1/3 gamers, 1/3 has memorized a long poem
Good news

First time we’ve ever had multiple generations playing games at the same time
Most game machines are connected
With game design you can seamlessly connect to activism — civil disobedience, Meetup
Democratization of the tools
“Double bottom line companies” — financial and social return

Bad news:

Entertaining games are still very […]

Games For Change festival, NYC

I’m sitting here in New York City waiting for the start of the Games For Change festival. Looks like there are going to be a couple of hundred people here to talk about serious games for social change.
I was up until far too late putting some additional polish on Melting Point. Today is the […]

Other things (besides the planet) are heating up

I’ve been insanely busy lately. Still making some money consulting, but also doing a ton of work on the game.
I don’t think I’ve even blogged about it…but I rebooted the project a few months back. The game as planned was going to be a downloaded game that players would buy, install and play. The game […]