Games for social awareness

Today I've stumbled upon an article, titled Best Practices for Integrating Game-Based Learning into Online Teaching, written by Rudy McDaniel and Peter Telep and published in Journal of Online Learning and Teaching. It refers to some game examples, I'm inclined to discuss whether these games are exactly examples of learning games. I'd rather tag them as social awareness games, which would be some form of persuasive games. Don't want to focus on wording, as learning is still a proper description, but maybe these examples are not extensive enough for me.

Anyway, here's part of the list of games, referred in the article:

• CyberCIEGE (download)


• Dafur is Dying


• Food Force (download)


• Global Conflict: Palestine (has a sequel Global Conflict: Latin America)


• Planet Green Game


• Fantastic Contraption


• Simport (commercial)


• Legsim


• Hazmat: Hot Zone (commercial)

In this context it might be interesting to see my persuasive game: ko64eto, which advocates for garbage separation in Bulgaria.

I could add to the list:

• BBC Climate Challenge


• Stop Disasters


• VirtualU (download)

BTW persuasive games are ones that in my mind necessarily need to be easily accessible. Otherwise there is no incentive for people to confront with them, esp. if they don't use mainstream platforms, such as Windows. One common way to achieve accessibility is to design and develop the games for a browser. Maybe you've noticed it yourself by not trying the games that need downloading.