Games for the Many – 'a UK non-profit workers cooperative of games designers, developers and artists trying to make a differenceæ, created the viral election game CorbynRun in 2017that reached over two million people.
Victor Fleurot, co-founder of 2084/ and the Civic Game Jam series, delivered a workshop on video games and socio-political change in the Transeuropa festival, which took place on 24-29 October in Madrid. In the festival’s context of promoting pan-European processes of solidarity, participants in the workshop were able to plan the design of video games with a focus on activism and civic innovation using the new formats and interactive mechanisms offered by digital games.
Joan Pedro-Carañana (J.P-C.) Could you explain the main idea of the Civic Game Jam?
