2016 Games for Change Awards Winners Announced

Games for Change also awarded Mary Flanagan their Vanguard Award, which recognizes someone who champions, advocates and mentors a new generation of game creators in a significant way. Games for Change wrote that Mary Flanagan (pictured below) is:

… A leading innovator, artist, educator and designer, whose works have included everything from game-inspired art, to commercial games that shift people’s thinking about biases and stereotypes. Flanagan established the internationally recognized game research laboratory Tiltfactor in 2003 to invent “humanist” games and take on social change through games.

Another development from the Games for Change Festival, Sid Meier announced a new project, CivilizationEDU. This is a modified version of Civilization V meant to provide students with a way to engage with history through videogames. CivilizationEDU will have players “consider and evaluate the geographical ramifications of their economic and technological decisions, and to engage in systems thinking and experiment with the causal/correlative relationships between military, technology, political and socioeconomic development.” It is coming to high schools in the United States in Fall 2017.