{"id":2299,"date":"2023-08-26T09:58:25","date_gmt":"2023-08-26T09:58:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/idsc.miami.edu\/magazine\/?p=2299"},"modified":"2023-12-14T19:47:54","modified_gmt":"2023-12-14T19:47:54","slug":"lindsay-grace-is-gaming-for-good","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/idsc.miami.edu\/magazine\/lindsay-grace-is-gaming-for-good\/","title":{"rendered":"Lindsay Grace is Gaming for Good"},"content":{"rendered":"

Lindsay Grace<\/strong><\/a> has been creating his own video games since he was 10 years old. But unlike the first-person-shooter or multiplayer war games that have long been the most popular sellers, Grace\u2019s games are designed to entertain while sneaking in life lessons along the way.<\/p>\n

There\u2019s the game where a player must hug a teddy bear<\/a> to move on to the next level. There are games that encourage people to avoid stereotypes and judge by behavior instead. There are games that teach players how to recognize sexual harassment, how to speak Mandarin Chinese, and how to differentiate between fake news and real news. Grace has made games that serve as teaching opportunities about racism, sexism, violence, love, compassion, psychological development, journalism, and disinformation.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe forget that we perceive play as an
\nopportunity to understand something.\u201d<\/h5>\n

\u201cWe forget that we perceive play as an opportunity to understand something,\u201d said Grace, the Knight Chair in Interactive Media<\/strong><\/a> at University of Miami. \u201cI had recognized that people had learned a tremendous amount of information about Pok\u00e9mon or about some world that was completely fictitious. So I thought, \u2018What if they were actually learning about science? What if they were learning about something that was also useful to them in the real world?\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n