Beyond Interactions

During spring semester of 2013, our team Beyond Interactions is investigating how games can be used for social change. This semester we are tasked with the responsibility to deliver an experience for our clients, Games for Change based in New York, to be presented at the 10th Games for Change festival held in June. The team needs to create an experience that would potentially involve more than a hundred people and keep them engaged with an emphasis on a social change. This project comes with its own set of mammoth challenges, one being keeping such a large audience engaged in the experience. We also need to consider a large variety of parameters like the venue for the festival, the expected demographic and a social change that would involve a large section of the audience while designing this game. Various team members also have the option of actually running the game live at the festival. We will be working with Emily Treat from Games for Change as our primary contact from client's end.