Serious Game for Gender Equity

The Global Game Jam invites: https://woman-life-freedom.com/
(Dec. 2 - 4, 2022)

Woman, Life, Freedom: The Game Jam! is a solidarity event for women protesting their rights. As a group of video game developers, we want to use our media to be their voice!

“Woman, Life, Freedom” is what people in Iran are chanting in streets during their protests against massive violations of women’s rights, corruption, and autocratic laws and regulations.

Join game jam and become voice of support:
woman-life-freedom.com

The award-wining Mela game, NOW is available:
www.melagame.com

Congrats to all the team. Special thanks to Arman AZ for his time and effort on this project.

McGill Faculty of Education D5gamecon ATTSVE Project IDRC / CRDI

Finally, Hani Sadati is going to defend his thesis which led to creating the Mela game.

There is an exciting news about the Mela game! 😁
Guess what?!?! ;)

Biny W. Adenew, artist and a team member of Mela project is doing amazing videos regarding graphic design (speed painting, digital portraits and more) on his channel.
Biny made amazing illustrations for Mela, a serious game to combat gender-based violence in Ethiopian agriculture colleges (www.melagame.com).
It was an honour working with you bro!
Check out one of Biny's most recent videos below:

Drawing Mekuria the lion ፶ አለቃ መኩሪያ Drawing Mekuria the lion ፶ አለቃ መኩሪያ I wanted to contribute something about this legendary lion #፶ አለቃ መኩሪያ Been working on dis drawing this week n loved ever...

In this short video, Hani Sadati is talking about a game concept and its relation to our current situation.

Coronavirus epidemic, a cooperative game! In this short video, I'm going to talk about a game concept and its relation to our new situation. My name is Hani Sadati, and I am a Ph.D. student in Educat...

Suggestion for Serious Games lovers: ;)

Free Webinar: How the Structure of Games is Actually a Teaching Paradigm

Date: Thursday, March 19
Time: 8:00 p.m. Eastern / 5:00 p.m. Pacific Time

Register Here: https://www.edchatinteractive.org/upcoming-seminars/how-the-structure-of-games-is-actually-a-teaching-paradigm

This Briefing Paper (a case study of Mela game), talks about how Serious Games can be self-educting tools and how they can help with the sustainability of educational and social change programs.

Many thanks to Prof. Claudia Mitchell, for all invaluable comments and edits, and Fatima Khan for the beautiful design of the paper.
Published in Participatory Cultures Lab, McGill University.

This Briefing Paper is 12 pages. We are waiting for Dagmawi Bedilu to put it on www.melagame.com so that we can reference to it.

McGill Faculty of Education, ATTSVE Project, IDRC / CRDI, D5gamecon, Chewata Awaqi - ጨዋታ አዋቂ, iceaddis

Mela Guide is accessible! :)
This document is meant to take the reader to a journey that starts from the beginning steps into the development process of a serious game, and finally, some follow up activities to address the SGBV in the ATVETs or other contexts.
To read the full document click on the following link and scroll down: http://melagame.com/about-mela/

McGill Faculty of Education , ATTSVE Project, IDRC / CRDI, D5gamecon, Chewata Awaqi - ጨዋታ አዋቂ, iceaddis

Next week we are going to have two days of game-play sessions and follow-up activities in Addis for the new version of Mela!

This time we also focus on "what is next, after playing the game?!" :)

""A Guide to Mela" & "Mela T-Shirts" are additional takeaways...! ;)

These sessions are special for invited ATVET college instructors!

Thanks to Sahar Fazeli for the pics!

McGill Faculty of Education D5gamecon
ATTSVE Project IDRC / CRDI