My Bright Idea: Jane Harman on Using Games to Fix Government
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The Economist says “video games will be the fastest-growing and most exciting form of mass media over the coming decade.” That excitement and its audience can also be put to serious use. At the Wilson Center, we’ve been into “serious” gaming since 2002—developing new media approaches to ever-evolving, complex social and political challenges. Why? Because it’s fun! Yes, fun. That’s what games do well.
Our Budget Hero game (budgethero.publicradio.org), designed to make fixing the broken federal budget everybody’s business, has been played over 1.2 million times since 2008.