Gaming Against Violence
Serious games for serious issuesconnectedness |consent | critical thinking | gaslighting | healthy relationships | media literacy | resilience | teen dating violence prevention
Classy Awards Finalist
Gaming Against Violence recognized as Top-50 nonprofit program for its innovative use of video games for violence prevention.
Gaming Against Violence: Articles, Studies, and Games
Journal Articles
- Gaming Against Violence: A Grassroots Approach to Teen Dating Violence
(ResearchGate) - Playing Against Abuse: Effects of Procedural and Narrative Persuasive Games (Journal of Games, Self, & Society)
- Gaming Against Violence: A Grassroots Approach to Teen Dating Violence
(Games for Health Journal) - Gaming Against Violence: An Exploratory Evaluation Through Mechanical Turk of the Efficacy of Persuasive Digital Games in Improving Unhealthy Relationship Attitudes
(University of Twente) - Gaming Against Violence: A Grassroots Approach to Teen Dating Violence
(NIH.gov) - Gaming Against Violence: A Grassroots Approach
(Science.gov) - Gaming Against Violence: An Exploratory Evaluation through Mechanical Turk of the Efficacy of Persuasive Digital Games in Improviing Unhealthy Relationship Attitudes
(ResearchGate)
Blog & Website Articles
- Meet the Survivors Who Support Other Survivors
(EVERYTOWN) - Teen Dating Violence (TDV) Prevention in 2020 and Beyond Proposed Use and Call for Further Research of TDV Video Games
(Medium) - Grace's Diary Review
(Family Gaming Database) - Serious Video Games Helping to Tackle Serious Issues
(Consent.Games) - ADRIFT: a Free Video Game About Consent
(PACEs Connection) - Consent Video Game Recognized for its Social Impact
(PACEs Connection) - Gamifying Consent Education
(blog) - Gaming Against Teen Dating Violence
(TeenDVMonth.org) - Gaming Against Violence: Educating and Empowering Youth through Video Games to Prevent Dating Violence
(2017 Presentation at yth live)
Media Coverage
- Video Games Against Violence: How One Nonprofit Is Creating Change
(The Hollywood Reporter) - Ending An Epidemic
(American Psychological Association Monitor) - Grace's Diary Is An Educational Adventure Game
(Wired) - Video games created to change the mindshift of teen dating violence
(The Atlanta Journal-Constitution) - Video games really can prevent violence
(Polygon) - Can games help prevent teen dating violence?
(Boing Boing) - Games To Educate Teens About Dating Violence
(Fast Company) - Call of Moral Duty - Making Games for Change
(Huffington Post) - Flash Game Contest Favors Message over Violence
(Kotaku) - Teens Often Struggle To Separate Love From Abuse
(NPR) - Interview: Anti-Teen Violence Group Reveals Game Design Contest Winners
(Game Developer) - 'Grace's Diary' Educates About, Explores Teen Dating Violence
(Kotaku)
Game Websites and Game Portals
- Gaming Against Violence Project
(HACKADAY) - Gaming Against Violence: The Echo Edition
(HACKSTER) - Gaming Against Violence: Games Portal
(JAGga.me) - Gaming Against Violence: Games on itch.io
(itch.io) - Gaming Against Violence: Games on GameJolt
(GameJolt) - HONEYMOON, a video game for young people about healthy dating relationships
(playHONEYMOON) - Gaslight Video Games
(Gaslight Games) - Consent Video Games
(Consent Games) - Grace's Diary Game
(itchio) - Lamplight Hollow Game
(GameJolt)
Select Games
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Culture Overlord a prosocial video game examining the cultural impacts on young people's beliefs about dating from media exposure as viewed through a media literacy lens.
►2022 Finalist, Games for Change Awards "Best Learning Game."
►2021 Finalist, GEE Educational Games Award.
►2020 Winning Game, Life.Love. Game Design Challenge.
►Developed by Lucas Vially (France)
►Published by Life Love Publishing -
MushWhom? a critical thinking video game with in-game educational resources designed for classroom use.
►2023 Best Design, Silv-E Awards.
►2023 Winning Game, Life.Love. Game Design Challenge: Critical Thinking.
►Developed by Knitwit Studios (USA)
►Published by Life Love Publishing -
Rispek Danis a prosocial culturally relevant video game intended to teach Ni-Vanuatu youth about consent and the value of respect in dating relationships.
►2019 Finalist, Games for Change Awards, "Most Significant Impact."
►Based on 2017 Winning Game, Life. Love. Game Design Challenge, 'How to Blorrble-Blobble.'
►Developed by Jared Sain and Jennifer Ann's Group (USA)
►Produced by Jennifer Ann's Group, World Vision, and Rispek
Videos
Gaming Against Violence Overview
from Jennifer Ann's Group
An overview of the purpose and intentionality behind the Gaming Against Violence program from Jennifer Ann's Group, a nonprofit organization dedicated to the prevention of teen dating violence.
Comparing the Use of Non-Digital & Digital Prosocial Games with Dr. Sarah Stang
Gaming Against Violence: Comparing the use of Non-Digital and Digital Prosocial Games with Dr. Sarah Stang. Taken from the 2021 panel discussion at PAX Unplugged.