Happy 2015! Let the Games Begin! 2015 finds us starting the year full of excitement at the upcoming adventures with clients old and new. With gaming business models in full disruption, new gaming platforms spawning like fruit flies, and the promise of game mechanics buttering everyone’s slice of bread, 2015 is poised for some real […]

Using Game-Based Approaches to Engage Citizens and Deliver Public Services  Nicole Lazzaro, President XEODesign, Inc. The Obama Administration has challenged federal agencies to engage the public in meaningful ways to provide ideas, insights, and comments on new policies and existing services in order to make them more citizen-centric.  The Administration’s Open Government directive asserts: “Public […]

In collecting proposals for the Office of Vice President Biden I was thrilled to receive in a matter of days over 100 ideas on reducing gun violence. I was impressed at the heart felt passion from multiple sides of many issues including gun regulation, mental health care, the question of whether the violence in video […]

Dean Takahashi, Game Journalist I’ll assume that this is about the role that the video game community could play in reducing violence. I’d have other thoughts on gun control. I’d sidestep the issue of whether games cause mass shootings. But I think that everyone could be more responsible, including members of the video game community. […]

I’m sharing some of the proposals I received to forward to VP Biden to reduce gun violence. Warren’s idea of setting the insurance industry against the NRA could be an epic boss battle. Game On! \o/ Nicole Warren Spector, Veteran Game Designer Founder, Junction Point Studios I’m honored to be asked to contribute ideas to […]

Gathering proposals for Vice President Biden on reducing gun violence I received so many interesting ones from game industry veterans I thought I’d share a few. Here’s one from Erik Bethke. Game On! \o/ Nicole Erik Bethke, Game Entrepreneur Simple Gun Responsibility Policy Recommendations The Right to Own Guns is a deeply held American value. […]

Ernest Adams, High Technology Consultant The sudden enthusiasm on the part of gun rights proponents for better mental health care is nothing but a smokescreen. Tragedies such as Sandy Hook, horrific as they are, are really beside the point because they are comparatively rare. Gun violence in America is far higher than that of other […]

The Office of the Vice President asked me to gather concrete proposals from industry leaders on what the Obama Administration should do to reduce mass shootings and gun violence. I have been so taken with the number of creative responses that I thought I’d put a copy of the Vice President’s email here and invite you […]

The Four Keys to Fun: Using Serious Game Technology to Deliver Public Services. How to use games to craft emotions to build trust, increase participation, and even deliver public services. Video games are the new medium of the 21st Century and have the potential to transform how governments communicate, provide information, and deliver public services. […]