Doing Things with Games

The book provides a contemporary foundation in designing social impact games. It is structured in 3 parts: understanding, application, and implementation. The book serves as a guide to designing social impact games, particularly focused on the needs of, media professionals, indie game designers and college students. It serves as a guide for people looking to create social impact play, informed by heuristics in game design. Key FeaturesProvides contemporary guide on the use of games to create social impact for beginner to intermediate practitionerso Provides design and implementation strategies for social impact gamesProvides wide ranging case studies in social impact gamesProvides professional advice from multiple social impact industry practitioners via sidebar interviews, quotes, and postmortemsProvides a quick start guide on creating a variety of social impact engagements across a wide variety of subjects and aims