The Games for Change 2024 Festival nominees and winners are as follows (winners in bold):
BEST IN LEARNING – Headlines and High Water (UW-Madison Field Day Lab), Give As We Grow (GivingTuesday, FableVision), Outbreak Ready 2!: Thisland in Crisis (&RANJ)
BEST IN HEALTH AND WELLNESS – Soul Paint (Monobanda), Sóóó Exhausting (Open Concept), Teach Your Monster Adventurous Eating (Teach Your Monster)
BEST IN CIVICS –Headlines and High Water (UW-Madison Field Day Lab), Sibel’s Journey (Food for Thought), We. The Refugees: Ticket to Europe (Act Zero)
BEST IMPACT – Stay Alive, My Son Ch. 1&2 (Ume), American Arcadia (Out of the Blue), Headlines and High Water (UW-Madison Field Day Lab)
BEST GAMEPLAY – A Highland Song (inkle), Chants of Sennaar (Rundisc), Jusant (Don’t Nod)
BEST INNOVATION – Stray Gods: The Musical (Summerfall Studios), A Highland Song (inkle), Stay Alive, My Son Ch. 1&2 (Ume)
BEST NARRATIVE – Stay Alive, My Son Ch. 1&2 (Ume), American Arcadia (Out of the Blue), Torn Away (Perelesoq)
BEST STUDENT GAME – Stop and Breathe (Sheridan College), It’s Ukraine – not a Game, PacaPomo
BEST TABLETOP/BOARD GAME – Daybreak (Matt Leacock), Empiric Pediatrics 2023 (credits here), Trilhas Urbanas (Pistache Editorial)
BEST IN XR – MLK: Now is the Time (Time Studios, Flight School Studios), Maya: The Birth of a Superhero (Poulomi Basu & CJ Clarke), Origen
BEST ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT – The Plastic Pipeline (FableVision), Loddlenaut (Moon Lagoon), Wake: Tales from the Aqualab (Field Day)
Additional awards include: G4C Giving, which was awarded to Twitch; best leadership, which was awarded to Minecraft, the Vanguard award, which was given to Alyssa Sweetman, breakout indie, which was given to Venba, and game experience of the year, which was given to Stay Alive My Son (Ch. 1/2).
All of the games are available to play at the festival’s second floor arcade during the Games For Change Festival, which is located in Parsons near Union Square.