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Water Cooler Games served as the web's primary forum for "videogames with an agenda" — coverage of the uses of video games in advertising, politics, education, and other everyday activities, outside the sphere of entertainment.
The site was maintained at watercoolergames.org from 2003-2009, where it was edited by myself and Gonzalo Frasca. It is now archived here in full.
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Social Issue Games Toolkit
by Ian Bogost January 28, 2009
Games for Change has announced the release of Let the Games Begin: A Toolkit 4 Making Social Issue Games, a multimedia resource for organizations interested in using games as a part of their outreach and communications efforts. Here's how they describe it:
The Toolkit guides organizations through the process of making a successful social issue game. It includes video presentations from experts in the field, original articles, and links to many other articles, books, websites, and game examples.
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