| | | | Announcing the 2019
G4C Awards Nominees | | Games for Change is pleased to announce the nominees for the 2019 Games for Change Awards! Each year we recognize the most impactful, innovative, and engaging social impact games of the year at our Games for Change Awards ceremony.
This year we are excited to present two new awards, Best Student Game and Best XR For Change Experience, alongside the classics: Best Gameplay, Most Innovative, Most Significant Impact, Best Learning Game, Vanguard Award, and the G4C People's Choice Award. | | All nominees are considered for the Awards' top honor, Game of the Year, which is awarded to the nominee that best exemplifies all categories.
G4C would like to send a big shout-out to everyone who submitted their games and to our jury of leaders from the video game community, social impact sector, new media and immersive tech sphere, who invested their time to dilligently evaluate all game submissions. Share your favorite impact game on social media using #G4C19! | | G4C People's Choice Award
Presented by Facebook | | We are proud to partner for the first time with Facebook to present the G4C People's Choice Award, where gamers and the G4C community can vote for their favorite title amongst all of our Award nominees.
The Games for Change Awards ceremony will be livestreamed on the G4C Facebook page, alongside the rest of our mainstage sessions. Be sure to tune in as we announce the winner on June 18th! Cast your vote for the G4C People's Choice Award below.
| | Detroit: Become Human
Developer: Quantic Dream
Platforms: PS4, PC
Detroit, 2038. Technology has evolved to a point where human like androids are everywhere. They have become a tireless force at the service of humanity. Some of them "awake", and start questioning their place in society. You will embody three of them, in their quest for freedom...and humanity. | | | GRIS
Developer: Nomada Studio
Platform: Nintendo Switch, PC, Mac
Gris is a hopeful young girl lost in her own world, dealing with a painful experience in her life. Her journey through sorrow is manifested in her dress, which grants new abilities to better navigate her faded reality. Gris will grow emotionally and see her world in a different way. | | | Florence
Developer: Mountains
Platforms: Android, iOS
Florence is an interactive storybook from the award-winning lead designer of Monument Valley about the heart-racing highs and heartbreaking lows of a young woman's very first love. | | | The Stillness of the Wind
Developer: Coyan Cardenas, Memory of God
Platforms: PC, iOS, Nintendo Switch
One by one, everyone left the village for the city. Everyone, except Talma. Approaching her final years, she maintains a simple way of life tending to her homestead, surviving, subsisting, whilst increasingly disturbing letters arrive from her family in the city. | | | Discovery Tour by Assassin's Creed: Ancient Egypt
Developer: Ubisoft
Platforms: Playstation 4, Xbox One, Microsoft Windows
In Discovery Tour by Assassin's Creed: Ancient Egypt, players can free roam the entire interactive 3D recreation, free of combat, storyline or time constraints. Explore Ancient Egypt with 75 guided tours curated by historians and Egyptologists, each with a focus on different aspects of life in ancient Egypt. | | | Nintendo Labo
Developer: Nintendo
Platforms: Nintendo Switch
Nintendo Labo combines physical and digital play patterns to teach and support principles of engineering, physics and basic programming. The platform uses kits that include cardboard cut-outs and other materials. The kits provide a fun way for kids to explore topics while building fundamental understanding of the technology behind them. | | | One Hand Clapping
Developer: Bad Dream Games
Platforms: PC, Android, iOS
One Hand Clapping is a 2D platformer that invites you to sing into your microphone to solve musical puzzles and change the world around you. | | | Tendar
Developer: Tender Claws
Platforms: Android
A humorous and provocative AR game that combines interactive storytelling, AR, sentiment and object recognition technology to promote discussion about current topics in mobile vision and artificial intelligence. Your guide: a fish-like creature who learns about the human experience by eating your emotions. Long-form AR content as Guppy evolves! | | | Can't Wait to Learn Uganda
Developer: War Child
Platform: Android
War Child Holland and partners develop solutions with and for children affected by conflict. The result is a self-guided serious gaming format accessed on tablets that takes children through Ministry approved maths and reading curricula, providing opportunity for children to work toward primary level. | | | My Memory of Us
Developer: Juggler Games
Platforms: PC, PS4, Xbox One, Nintendo Switch
My Memory of Us is a moving fairy tale about friendship and hope in the darkest moments of our times. Enter hand-crafted, gorgeously animated 2D world full of adventure, exploration, stealth and puzzles. Meet the kids brought up in peculiar environments and help them survive during times of occupation. | | | Rispek Danis
Developer: Jennifer Ann's Group
Platforms: PC, Android
A culturally appropriate and enjoyable game about consent created for youth in Vanuatu, a country with one of the World's highest rates of sexual victimization of children. The game is narrated in Bislama, a primary language of Vanuatu, and all dialogue, locations, and music are representative of ni-Vanuatu youth life. | | | UNICEF Kid Power
Developer: Teravision Technology, Teravision Games and 42 Mate
Platforms: Android, iOS
UNICEF Kid Power turns everyday activity into lifesaving food for over 16 million severely malnourished children around the world. By connecting a Kid Power Band or other activity tracker to our game, families, friends and classrooms can save lives with every step they take. | | | The Cat in The Hat Builds That
Developer: PBS Kids
Platforms: Android, iOS
The Cat in the Hat Builds That app introduces pre-k kids to science inquiry and engineering concepts through games tailored to their learning progress. Kids can build bridges, explore friction through slides & more as they earn rewards & explore in their own way. | | | Cards Aganist Calamity
Developers: 1st Playable Productions & the Environmental Law Institute
Platforms: PC, iOS, Android, Web
In Cards Against Calamity, you take on the role of mayor of a small coastal town. You must balance the needs of various stakeholder groups, from fishermen to tourists and small business owners, while protecting the town from job loss, pollution, hurricanes, and hipsters. Do you have what it takes? | | | Discovery Tour by Assassins Creed: Ancient Egypt
Developer: Ubisoft
Platforms: Playstation 4, Xbox One, Microsoft Windows
In Discovery Tour by Assassin's Creed: Ancient Egypt, players can free roam the entire interactive 3D recreation, free of combat, storyline or time constraints. Explore Ancient Egypt with 75 guided tours curated by historians and Egyptologists, each with a focus on different aspects of life in ancient Egypt. | | | HoloLAB Champions
Developer: Schell Games
Platform: PC + Oculus Rift / HTC Vive
HoloLAB Champions is a VR chemistry game show, where contestants complete experiments to become champions of lab practice. With guidance and witty commentary provided by holographic hosts Earl and Meyer, players perform a series of tasks quickly and accurately, allowing them to learn basic lab skills in a safe environment. | | | Healing Spaces
Developers: Gabriela Purri R. Gomes
Platforms: iOS + Physical Components
Healing Spaces combines both digital and physical components to transform spaces and create a sense of place through sight, touch, smell and sound, transporting older adults with advanced dementia and their caregivers to restorative environments where they can reconnect, find respite and heal. | | | In Loving Memory
Developers: Isaac Lim
Platforms: PC
In Loving Memory is a poetic experience that follows a young girl through her journey through loss and acceptance, while trapped in her own fantasy world to cope with grief. | | | Prism
Developers: Yidi Zhu, Dan Wolpow, Ridima Ramesh, Yutian Zheng, Xueyang Wang
Platforms: Web
Prism helps neurotypical children aged 8 to 10 empathize with their peers who have autism. It is a digital game for the children to play, paired with a discussion framework for instructors that takes the children through the game and how it relates to their everyday lives. | | | Rayha's Poem
Developers: The Rayha's Poem Team
Platforms: PC
A young girl leaps across boundaries both social and supernatural to find herself, her mother, and the fabled land of freedom her mother spoke of. | | | BEST XR FOR CHANGE EXPERIENCE | | Another Dream
Developers: alpha_rats
Platforms: HTC Vive, Samsung Gear, Google Daydream
ANOTHER DREAM is an animated virtual reality documentary that brings to life the gripping, true love story of an Egyptian lesbian couple. Faced with a post-Revolution backlash against the LGBTQ community, they escape Cairo to seek asylum and acceptance in the Netherlands. | | | Homestay
Developers: National Film Board of Canada
Platforms: Oculus Rift
Every year, Canada receives hundreds of thousands of international students. To make the most of their experience, many opt to live with a host family. Homestay is one family's story and a look at how complete immersion in another culture can change our understanding of family and love. | | | Tendar
Developer: Tender Claws
Platforms: Android
A humorous and provocative AR game that combines interactive storytelling, AR, sentiment and object recognition technology to promote discussion about current topics in mobile vision and artificial intelligence. Your guide: a fish-like creature who learns about the human experience by eating your emotions. Long-form AR content as Guppy evolves! | | | Queerskins: a love story
Developers: Cloudred
Platforms: PC
Seated behind parents who have lost their son to AIDS, visitors take a magic realist journey down a country road in rural Missouri. By interacting with artifacts from the son's life: personal belongings, photographs, and his diary, visitors get to know the man who has died | | | | | | | |
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