[P4K] AMD Foundation and Games for Change unveil tookit to help create socially conscious games
Hot off of Business Wire, AMD just sent out a release about the launch of their new educational toolkit entitled "Let the Games Begin" which is focused on helping organizations create games on topics of social issues. This is all part of their latest support of games based learning and projects like our Playing 4 Keeps game Tempest in Crescent City which was sponsored by their Changing the Game initiative.
Let the Games Begin Toolkit Captures Content from 2008 Games for Change Festival 101 WorkshopSUNNYVALE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--AMD (NYSE: AMD) today announced the availability of Let the Games Begin: A Toolkit 4 Making Social Issue Games, which helps nonprofit organizations to create social issue games on such topics as the environment, energy consumption, poverty and health. Produced by Games for Change with support from the AMD Foundation’s AMD Changing the Game initiative, the toolkit includes examples of successful games with social content as well as in-depth presentations by key game-design experts.
Much of the content focuses on materials that went into the development of Global Kids' renowned Ayiti: The Cost of Life. You can download the free toolkit online at www.gamesforchange.org/toolkit.
