Field Day

11/11/2024

Previous fellows: If you are thinking about going to WSST, WLA, WEMTA or any other regional conference, let's write a session proposal together! We are hoping to promote our new learning game library, the Vault, and can pay for your travel!

Deadlines:
WEMTA - December 11
WSST - December 20

vault.fielddaylab.wisc.edu

07/17/2024

Tomorrow the GEE! Awards will be publishing the 2024 winners. Leading up the the announcements, we will be live streaming game play and interviews with the studios on twitch, live from PLAY MAKE LEARN, from 11-3:30 central time. Want to Join in and meet the finalists? Goto http://twitch.tv/gameranthro

06/28/2024

Unbelievable. Headlines and High Water won TWO Games for Change Awards in NYC last night. Huge congrats to our team and Sarah for her vision and leadership in the project.

06/27/2024

In New York this week for games for change!

Two educational video games created at UW–Madison’s Field Day Lab have been chosen as finalists in the national 2024 Games for Change Awards.

06/03/2024

What an honor to be up for four awards from Games for Change this year!
Headlines and High Water is a finalist for Best in Civics, Best in Learning, and Best in Impact. Wake: Tales form the Aqualab is a finalist for Best in Environmental Impact.
See you in New York for the festival and award ceremony!

🎉 Drumroll, please! 🎉

We are thrilled to announce the finalists for the 2024 G4C Awards, celebrating the year's most groundbreaking games and immersive experiences that champion social impact, foster learning, and push the boundaries of interactive media. 🏆

Through a rigorous evaluation process, our expert judges have selected 3 finalists in each of the 11 competitive award categories, including the debut of the Best Environmental Engagement category. These games exemplify the power of social impact gaming, driving positive change and raising awareness through the power of play.

Join us on June 27 at the live Awards ceremony as we honor these incredible titles, with the amazing Anjali Bhimani as our host! 🌟

🏆The G4C2024 Awards finalists include:

💫 Best in Innovation
A Highland Song - inkle
Stay Alive, My Son Chapter 1 & 2 - UME Studios
Stray Gods: The Roleplaying Musical - Summerfall Studios

🏛️ Best in Civics
We. The Refugees: Ticket to Europe - Act Zero
Sibel's Journey - Food for Thought Media
Headlines and High Water - Field Day Lab

🌍 Best in Environmental Impact
Loddlenaut - Moon Lagoon
Wake: Tales from the Aqualab - Field Day Lab
The Plastic Pipeline - FableVision

💪 Best in Health & Wellness
Teach Your Monster Adventurous Eating - Teach Your Monster
So Exhausting - Open Concept
Soulpaint - Improvive

💥 Best in Impact
Headlines and High Water - Field Day Lab
Stay Alive, My Son Chapter 1 & 2 - UME Studios
American Arcadia - Out of the Blue Games

🧠 Best in Learning
Outbreak READY 2!: Thisland in Crisis - &ranj
Give As We Grow - FableVision
Headlines and High Water - Field Day Lab

🕹️ Best in XR
MLK: Now Is The Time - Flight School Studio, TIME Studios, Meta VR For Good
Origen - Presencias
Maya: The Birth of a Superhero - Just Another Production Company

✍️ Best Narrative
Torn Away - perelesoq
Stay Alive, My Son Chapter 1 & 2 - UME Studios
American Arcadia - Out of the Blue Games

🧑‍🎓 Best Student Project

It's Ukraine - Not a Game - Various Students
Stop and Breathe - One Must Imagine Games
PacaPomo - Saturday Boys

🎮 Best Gameplay
A Highland Song - inkle
Chants of Sennaar - Rundisc
Jusant - DON'T NOD

Congratulations to all the finalists! Don't miss the Awards Ceremony on June 27, where we'll reveal the winners and celebrate other amazing people, organizations, and games making a difference. 🏅

Secure your spot: https://bit.ly/G4C2024_Tix
Learn more: festival.gamesforchange.org/2024-awards-nominee-overview

04/12/2024

We are so proud of this game and thrilled to see journalists support it!

We live in a time when fake news permeates social media feeds and partisan coverage blasts through some cable news channels. Teaching media literacy can help people wade through the disinformation and become critical news consumers. As Christina Lieffring tells us, a video game created by UW-Madison...

03/31/2024

Here are some of the Biosphere photos from our tour as part of the NSF Research Infrastructure meeting this year in AZ. Next year I'll be proposing a national infrastructure using videogames to study human thinking and learning. It's kinda like pointing a telescope at the mind and emotions.

12/07/2023

Hey teachers that have used Wake!

We are looking for your thoughts about if the game was useful to give kids experiences with ocean phenomena even if they don't live by a body of water.

Did kids feel more connected to the ocean by playing the game? How did you make connections to your local ecosystems?

Could you take a moment to share your thoughts right here?

10/10/2023

Sarah was live on badger talks today

Field Day at UW-Madison is teaching kids through games how to sniff out fake news and learn about media literacy. It's award-winning, it's FREE and it's fun! https://fielddaylab.wisc.edu/play/headlines/ci/production/. Enjoy a talk by the video game Creative Director here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0WEM4J9TiQw

08/27/2023

We want to learn more about how folks are using our games in their classrooms. We have a $50 stipend for folks who have used Wake and are willing to talk with us about it. (Sorry - fellows are not eligible) https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1-G2624W8FURIosn2SeVK_pO7wrMaQ8hmSUWwxexinxM/edit

04/10/2023

Hi Field Day Fellows ! Calling any middle school teachers. A journalist from the Wisconsin state journal would like to come to a class where students are playing our newest game about journalism and the science of flooding. If anyone is interested please contact me at [email protected]. Thanks!!

Check out the game here (free as always!)

A journalism adventure game in a the charming, but flooded, city of Twin Lakes.