Take the unique opportunity to try out socially-involved titles that you might have missed. Join the event online, meet the devs, and participate in panels and showcases. Games for Impact Festival will start on December 8th and last until December 11th.
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE – December 1st, Warsaw, Poland.
The first edition of the festival took place back in 2018. This year, the event is back with an even stronger line-up of games that serve something more than just pure fun. Loneliness, war, death, and even education or bursting ideological bubbles are only a few of the many topics that developers try to discuss via their games that will be presented during the event. Join online for free to take a look at our favorite medium from a different angle.
Watch the Games for Impact spot HERE to get a glimpse of what the show will have to offer.
The event will take place online on the official website (https://gamesforimpact.pl/en/) and last from December 8th until December 11th. The festival program is available under the following link: https://gamesforimpact.pl/en/program-2/. Participation is free of charge, however, prior registration is required. To get access to all the games and panels, please fill in the following form: https://gamesforimpact.pl/en/register/. It’s definitely worth it since all the developers participating in the event have prepared special videos where they discuss, and point out aspects of their games that are normally skipped in communication.
ABOUT GAMES FOR IMPACT
Games for Impact is an international festival showcasing purposeful video games that reach beyond entertainment. The first edition in 2018 was the first event of this kind in Central and Eastern Europe. It featured 30+ games and XR experiences as well as speakers from all over the world, including Asi Burak (longtime president of Games for Change), Amy and Ryan Green (creators of the award-winning game That Dragon, Cancer), and Paweł Miechowski (This War of Mine).
This year’s edition, which goes online because of COVID-19, moves from exploring the territory to a more practical engagement with it – building ties between game developers, social innovators, educators, and funders while providing useful insights, case studies, and recommendations.
Some of the topics that will be covered during the event are games for children and classrooms, titles that encourage critical thinking and foster empathy, those that address accessibility or cross-sector cooperation.
Festival participants will be able to learn what do games have to do with Belarus revolution, how to build better minority characters or how to properly use game-tech for accessibility. But these are only a few of many interesting panels that will be happening on-line, so be sure to browse through the event program to pick up those most interesting for you.
GAMES AVAILABLE DURING THE SHOW DIVIDED INTO CATEGORIES
GAMING THE ARCHIVE
CRITICAL GAMING
GIGCO: Escape the Gig Economy!
Werewolf: The Apocalypse. Heart of the Forest
GAMES FOR HEALTH
Watch Me Stream My Mental Breakdown
Xoli and the World of Tomorrow
CHILD’S PLAY
Tinybop: The Explorer’s Library
Edoki Academy: Montessori Preschool
More games are still to be announced.
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About FINA
The National Film Archive – Audiovisual Institute (Filmoteka Narodowa – Instytut Audiowizualny in Polish, thus FINA) is a modern institution of culture brought to life June 1st, 2017, as a fusion of the Film Archive, and National Audiovisual Institute. Its statutory mission is to digitize, collect, restore, and share, as well as promote Polish audiovisual heritage and disseminate the most valuable manifestations of film culture. FINA is also a co-producer of new audiovisual materials (films, radio, and TV broadcasts, as well as film and music publications). https://fina.gov.pl/
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About Indie Games Poland Foundation
The Foundation’s mission is to create social awareness around the role of video games understood as a modern medium and an equal participant of the cultural market, as well as supporting video game developers’ education, work, and promotional and sales efforts. https://www.facebook.com/fundacja.igp/