2017 Games for Change Festival

Games for change are often hyped as magical objects with inherent powers: the power to teach something, to change behaviors, to foster empathy, to encourage action. The hope is to leverage their digital reproducibility to reach a massive user base and automatically perform the work of social change. Starting from Molleindustria's recent projects, I'll expand the scope of critical gamemaking beyond the fetishized content and toward the politics of game platforms, play spaces, and gamers.