Doing Things with Games: Social Impact Through Play

A contemporary foundation in designing social impact games, this book serves as a guide to designing social impact games with focus on the needs of, media professionals, indie game designers and college students. It is a guide for people looking to create social impact play in game design

Author: Lindsay Grace
Publisher: CRC Press
Published: 07/16/2019
Pages: 266
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.85lbs
Size: 9.20h x 6.10w x 0.60d
ISBN: 9781138367265

About the Author

Lindsay Grace is Knight Chair of Interactive Media and an associate professor at the University of

Miami School of Communication. He is Vice President of the Higher Education Video Game Alliance,

and founded the American University Game Lab and Studio, which completed hundreds of thousands

of dollars in purpose driven play designs annually. Clients included the US National Institutes of Mental

Health (NIMH), the Educational Testing Service (ETS), The World Bank, VOX Media and others.

His personal creative work has received awards and recognition from the Games for Change Festival,

the Digital Diversity Network, the Association of Computing Machinery's digital arts community, Black

Enterprise and others. This work has been selected for showcase internationally including New York,

Paris, Sao Paolo, Singapore, Chicago, Vancouver, Istanbul, and more. Lindsay curated or co-curated the

Blank Arcade exhibits (2015-2019), Smithsonian American Art Museum's SAAM Arcade (2014-2017),

the Games for Change Civic and Social Impact (2017) and others.

He has given talks and keynotes at the Game Developers Conference (GDC), SXSW, the Games for Change

Festival, the Online News Association, the Society for News Design, Smithsonian Institutes, and many

other industry events. His opinions on games have been offered by CNN, Al-Jazeera, National Public Radio

and others. He has been teaching games and interactive media design for more than a decade.