The nonprofit group I work for is presenting its 15th annual prosocial game design challenge. For this year's competition the theme is resilience. We will launch the contest before the end of June and would appreciate more feedback regarding the educational resources about resilience that we are sharing with the participants.
Some Background
When we launch a game design challenge we try and provide as much helpful information to game developers who will participate. We do this so that the games that they develop are based on accurate and timely information. When we judge the finished games they are judged by subject matter experts to ensure that everything is correct in the games, but we want to be proactive by guiding them to the best information available before they begin designing their games.
Would you please provide some Feedback?
If you could read through the contest website and give us some feedback that would be a huge help. We have tackled many tricky subjects in the past (e.g. consent, healthy relationships, power & control dynamics) but when it comes to resilience we are finding more data than consensus.
What we've included on the website so far:
- various definitions of resilience
- list of attributes, characteristics, and factors supporting resilience
- articles and resources about resilience (PACEs Connection already included!)
►The contest website is: https://resilient.games ◄
We do not have the rules or details for the contest up yet, the site is just background information to help game developers be better informed about what resilience is and have a better understanding of the skills or characteristics supporting resilience.
Given the significant impacts from 2+ years of COVID and the ongoing traumas from gun violence in the U.S., we are eager to produce and publish prosocial games about resilience. We believe that the resulting games will engage and empower students about how to foster skills to help them be better able to adapt to trauma.
All helpful information or feedback will inform our efforts.
And of course if you, or anybody you know, is interested in participating in this year's game design challenge you are welcome to register through the website. All registrants will be notified when the contest launches later this month, June 2022. (Please share this info with anybody who might want to participate.)
Our games are trauma-informed and intentionally designed to engage and empower young people ages 11-23. Although we have not posted the rules or details for this year's contest yet, there is one rule that we have had every year since our first competition in 2008: no depictions of violence.
Thank you in advance for any assistance & suggestions!
