Echo Earth Experience (EEE) is a virtual reality (VR) experience, which simulates how marine mammals use echolocation to navigate underwater.
Game created for Open Society Foundations’ Sexual Health and Rights Program (SHARP) highlighting the findings of their research on the Condoms as Evidence policy in Kenya, Namibia, South Africa, Zimbabwe, Russia, and USA.
Thousands of undocumented immigrant children (UICs) are detained within the U.S. each year and are extremely vulnerable without knowledge of their rights. Toma el Paso (Make a Move) is a game designed for UICs to learn about the shelter release process.
Vanity promotes tanning bed avoidance and melanoma prevention in adolescents and young adults. A tabletop version was funded by the Division of Dermatology at the Ottawa Hospital and the University of Ottawa for use as part of school health curriculum.
Game funded by World Bank and designed for Tanzania Social Action Fund (TASAF) to teach subsistence farmers in Tanzania about the benefits of a new national social safety net program and risk mitigating activities such as climate change adaptation.
During Summer 2014 in the semi-autonomous Panamanian community known as Kuna Yala, a team of University of Miami Public Health and Latin American Studies students participated in an educational intervention...
In August 2014, the University of Miami published an article on my Toma el Paso game, including some coverage on a recently training I did with shelter staff at His...
Back in Spring 2012, I started working on Make a Move, a game for unaccompanied immigrant minors (UIMs), youth who find themselves in the U.S. without proper documentation of legal...
In early 2014, the ACM SIGGRAPH Digital Arts Community (DAC) launched the Aesthetics of Gameplay online exhibition. Ian Bogost captures what this exhibition aims to showcase in his article entitled “Persuasive Games: From Aberrance to Aesthetics”: “But...
Have you played Cops & Rubbers? Watch this video to learn more about my Cops & Rubbers game project with Open Society Foundations’ Public Health and Rights Project, which is...
I’m pleased to announce that my proposal for “Games for a Caribbean Climate” – joint with Red Cross Caribbean Disaster Risk Management Reference Center (CADRIM) and the Red Cross Red Crescent...
For those who have been following my Gaming the Immigration System project and the status of Make a Move (Toma El Paso in Spanish), I’m happy to announce that the...
The School of Communications Interactive Media Master of Fine Arts program has earned a No. 24 ranking on The Princeton Review’s 2014 list of the best graduate schools to study...
In Fall 2013 Clay Ewing and I went back and did some tweaking to the original Vanity game. Some of the changes were to make the gameplay more user friendly,...
I teamed up with Clay Ewing (@claytical), Joel Acosta (@LoseTV), and Brian Deltoro in this year’s Global Game Jam from January 24-26. FIU’s Game Developers Guild kindly hosted us and...
Now everyone can put themselves in the shoes of a sex worker – just don’t get caught with a condom in your shoe like Naomi here. Cops and Rubbers is now...
Article sourced from UM Interactive website (September 2013) With the global population booming and water-borne diseases on the rise, developing nations are faced with the serious challenge of providing clean water...