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💫 Announcing the winning social connectedness games. Please join us in congratulating these teams.
♥️A HUGE thank you to our panel of experts who played, scored, & critiqued the games!
#Prosocial #Videogames #Indiegame #Nonprofit #PublicHealth #Prevention #EDUtwitter
ALT An image using the theme for the Connecting Games Game Design Challenge. The background is similar to a light blue sky with transparent clouds. At the top-center is a 70s style logo: "Connecting.Games" with an iconic smiling face in place of the dot. Below is a rounded frame containing information and screenshots for the five winning video games. [Descriptions for the screenshots of the winning video games is not provided.] 1st Place 'Open Worlds Play' Sunny Chen 2nd Place 'The Titli Effect' Anurati Srivastva, Sana Alimohamed, Charu Tak, Divya Tak 3rd Place 'Local' GatherRound Games 4th Place 'Dear Archibald' Elaine Fath Carnegie Mellon University Center for Transformational Play 5th Place 'The Orb of Harmony' Carter Semrad
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Drew Crecente (mastodon: crecente@games.ngo) retweeted
1 Oct 2025
🥳Announcing the 2025 winning games from our 18th annual game design challenge!
The topic was #communication.
🥇Wasteland of Eloquence
🥈Time to Explain!
🥉Fractured Home
Details:
communicating.games/index.ht…
#videogames #indiegame #indiedev #nonprofit #prevention #publichealth
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Drew Crecente (mastodon: crecente@games.ngo) retweeted
11 Dec 2024
The tenth edition of the Games for Health Europe conference will take place on the 31st March and 1st April 2025! Let’s join hands again for #healthcare and #seriousgames! gamesforhealtheurope.org/ #GFHEU2025
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Drew Crecente (mastodon: crecente@games.ngo) retweeted
❗️Last April we reached over 20K folks with our free award-winning games about #consent.
❓How many can we reach for 2025??
💜April is #SAAM (Sexual Assault Awareness Month)
🎮Check out & play our free games about consent at consent.games
#PublicHealth #indiegames
ALT A fake moustache and glasses prop fills the center of the screen. Above: "NO JOKE" Below: "Last year we taught consent to more than 20,000 folks through our free video games." https://consent.games
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Drew Crecente (mastodon: crecente@games.ngo) retweeted
17 Mar 2025
🏆 2025 Game Design Challenge:
#Communication
📆 Join by March 24th
📣 Finalists announced live: Mar 31st - Games For Health Europe Conference
📝 Finalists receive expert critiques
💰 $10,000 in cash prizes
Register: communicating.games
#indiedev #gamedev #Charity
ALT Promotion graphic for a video game design challenge has a rich purple solid background. In the center is a tape cassette - it is teal, red, and purple and has masking tape labels: "18th Annual" "Game Design Challenge" Below the cassette tape is the following text: COMMUNICATION GAMES The 18th Annual Life.Love. Game Design Challenge www.Communicating.Games
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Drew Crecente (mastodon: crecente@games.ngo) retweeted
28 Oct 2024
Is the Steam Deck a game console or a gaming PC, and other thoughts.
game.substack.com/p/consoles…
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In an effort to elect pro-gun politicians, "America’s most iconic gun-makers turned over sensitive personal information on hundreds of thousands of customers" to groups, including #CambridgeAnalytica.
propublica.org/article/gunma…
@MomsDemand @Everytown @NSSF #privacy
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"... the misuse of AI technology jeopardizes the essence that defines humanity, prioritizing commercial interests."
techbriefly.com/2024/10/03/w…
#AI #CharacterAI #Tech #LegalTech #Legislation
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"It appears that either they are not doing the bare minimum in vetting these chatbot profiles or that their technology is so bad as to be useless."
dailymail.co.uk/news/article…
#AI #CharacterAI #privacy #technology #law #trauma
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💜An anonymous donor is matching dollar-for-dollar donations today up to $1,400.
#Nonprofit #DonateNow #DVAM2024 #ElPaso
17 Oct 2024
The 9th annual El Paso Giving Day is underway! Donate to organizations like Jennifer Ann's Group. With a minimum donation of $10, & $1,400 in matched funds, help us expand & strengthen our educational programs & digital interventions
elpasogivingday.org/organiza…
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Drew Crecente (mastodon: crecente@games.ngo) retweeted
More coverage of Character AI service used to create a chatbot based on my deceased daughter @stopTDV.
@washingtonpost @WIRED articles came out yesterday.
🧐 Potential impacts of #AI if there are insufficient guardrails?
◾️ washingtonpost.com/nation/20…
◾️ wired.com/story/characterai-…
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⭐️ In this video, @dangelno talks about the terrible thing I dealt with last week. He also talks about the need for change & shows support for our work.
💜 I am greatly encouraged by folks like him.
youtube.com/watch?v=mEZloegL…
#AI #Chatbot #CharacterAI @stopTDV @crecenteb
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Drew Crecente (mastodon: crecente@games.ngo) retweeted
2 Oct 2024
@FTC @linakhanFTC Any chance you ftc will start cracking down on this kind of abuse as well?
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Drew Crecente (mastodon: crecente@games.ngo) retweeted
Thank you @crecenteb and to everybody for their kind words and support. We will continue using #technology to do good through @stopTDV in Jen's name and memory.
We remain hopeful bad actors will will one day be prevented from using technology to cause harm.
2 Oct 2024
This is fucking disgusting:
@character_ai is using my murdered niece as the face of a video game AI without her dad's permission. He is very upset right now. I can't imagine what he's going through.
Please help us stop this sort of terrible practice.
character.ai/character/Dv4nS…
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🎂Happy 100th Birthday President Carter!
🌟President #Carter is a featured guest in the free online course 'Understanding #Violence' from @EmoryUniversity.
I'm honored to discuss our work using #videogames for #prevention in this great course.
coursera.org/learn/violence
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If true, it's shockingly irresponsible to forbid teaching #consent in #Florida schools.
😈Only #abusers benefit by preventing students from valuing bodily autonomy from an early age.
🌟Over 10K students learn consent through our #free #games every yr.
27 Sep 2024
📢 “Barr said a list of words health educators told her they’ve been forced to remove from lesson plans includes “abuse,” “consent” and “domestic violence”
msnbc.com/msnbc/amp/shows/re…
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Drew Crecente (mastodon: crecente@games.ngo) retweeted
12 Jul 2024
Grace's Diary from @StopTDV is a role-playing game where you play, Grace, who is concerned about her friend Natalie whose behaviour has changed. PEGI 3 and ESRB EVERYONE. It's a single-player game for Android, Mac, PC and Web, out now.
familygamingdatabase.com/gam…
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Drew Crecente (mastodon: crecente@games.ngo) retweeted
1 Jul 2024
Very happy to once again be joining @stopTDV as one of their judges for their annual meaningful games competition. This year? "Connectedness."
Read more about the panel of judges, and this year's competition: connecting.games/connectedne…
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Drew Crecente (mastodon: crecente@games.ngo) retweeted
13 Sep 2024
New game alert! jag.itch.io/newsun
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