Top Results for Awareness

The National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI) is a leading non-profit dedicated to improving the lives of people living with mental illness and their families. NAMI provides crucial support, educational programs, and advocates for policy changes that promote access to care and reduce stigma. It ser...

This general overview emphasizes the Human Realm as the nexus point where the potential for both the highest suffering and the highest enlightenment resides. It is the realm of choice, where beings grapple with the concepts of karma, duty, and liberation. Mastery here means mastering the self amidst...

September 12th: A Toy World is a 2003 political newsgame created by Uruguayan game designer and theorist Gonzalo Frasca. It presents a simplified scene in which the player can target apparent terrorists, but civilian deaths create mourners who may become terrorists, illustrating the game's argument...

World Without Oil is a 2007 serious game and alternate reality game created by Jane McGonigal and Ken Eklund. It presented a fictional thirty-two-week global oil crisis and invited participants to describe how the shortage affected their own lives through blog posts, emails, videos, photographs, pod...

SPENT simulates the realities of living with severe financial hardship. This browser-based serious game tasks players with managing a limited budget – $1,000 – for one month to understand the challenges faced by individuals experiencing poverty. Developed for Urban Ministries of Durham, it’s designe...

The Ocean Cleanup develops and deploys technologies to remove plastic pollution from the oceans. Their innovative systems passively collect plastic debris, targeting the Great Pacific Garbage Patch and other heavily polluted areas. While facing challenges and criticisms, their efforts raise awarenes...

Fritz Perls (1893–1970) was a German-born psychiatrist and psychotherapist who co-founded Gestalt therapy alongside his wife, Laura Perls, and the writer Paul Goodman. Operating primarily in South Africa and later the United States, Perls developed a form of experiential psychotherapy that emphasize...

Third World Farmer, also known as 3rd World Farmer, is a browser-based serious game originally prototyped as a student project at the IT University of Copenhagen in Denmark. Players manage a farming family over several generations while facing conditions such as drought, disease, war, corruption, an...

Poverty Is Not a Game, commonly abbreviated PING, is a Belgian serious game about the experience of living in poverty. It uses role-playing and interactive decisions to present social and economic pressures associated with limited resources, helping players examine how poverty can affect everyday ch...

The Uber Game is a 2017 browser-based simulation produced by the Financial Times that places players in the role of an Uber driver navigating the gig economy. Developed based on interviews with actual Uber drivers, the game challenges players to manage their time, expenses, and earnings while facing...

BBC Children in Need is a long-running British television programme dedicated to raising funds for disadvantaged children and young people across the United Kingdom. Established in 1980, it has become a significant national fundraising event and raises awareness of issues affecting vulnerable youth....

Spent is a browser-based serious game developed for Urban Ministries of Durham (UMD) in 2011 to raise awareness about poverty and financial hardship. Players take the role of an individual living near the poverty line and must make budgeting and life choices to survive a month without running out of...

The Ocean Cleanup develops and deploys technologies to remove plastic pollution from the oceans. Their innovative systems passively collect plastic debris, targeting the Great Pacific Garbage Patch and other heavily polluted areas. While facing challenges and criticism, The Ocean Cleanups efforts ra...

Before the Flood is a 2016 documentary examining climate change, directed by Fisher Stevens. The film features Leonardo DiCaprio and was produced through a collaborative effort involving several production companies and an executive producer, Martin Scorsese. It explores the issue of global warming...

Depression Quest is a text-based interactive fiction work created by Zoe Quinn, Patrick Lindsey, and Isaac Schankler and first released online in 2013. Players make everyday choices while experiencing depression, with some response options visibly unavailable to represent actions that may seem possi...

Smoke and Mirrors is an educational serious game created for youth tobacco-use prevention. Its central subject is the way tobacco companies and related advertising can use persuasive or deceptive presentation, and the game asks players to examine those techniques critically. It is intended for schoo...

Darfur is Dying is a Flash-based browser serious game released in 2006 as part of an activist project about the war in Darfur, western Sudan. It places the player in the role of a Darfuri refugee and uses resource-gathering, camp management, and threat avoidance to represent aspects of displacement...

Free the Slaves is a leading organization dedicated to ending modern slavery. Their community-led approach empowers local organizations to identify, rescue, and rehabilitate victims, while addressing the root causes of trafficking. They prioritize prevention through education and advocacy, fostering...

Actual Sunlight is a short interactive story created by Will O’Neill. The player follows Evan Winter, a young professional in Toronto, through three periods of his life as the narrative addresses love, depression, work, and corporate culture. Its focus is literary and psychological rather than actio...

Cyber Awareness Challenge is a United States Department of Defense training program on cybersecurity and information protection. It covers common threats, safe computing practices, and the proper handling of classified information, personally identifiable information, and other controlled data. The...

Phishd is a cybersecurity awareness serious game about phishing, the use of deceptive messages to trick people into revealing information or taking unsafe actions. Its training format presents simulated email situations and asks players to decide whether messages are legitimate or fraudulent, turnin...