One of Good World Media’s ongoing experimental project, The Swap-O-Matic has finally found a new home at Brooklyn art and community center Launch Pad in Brooklyn, NY! Launch Pad is a creative gathering place focused on the arts, community programs, technology, and anything else that captures the imagination. After a long time of development and [...] Continue reading
The 2011 Lights Film Festival
Good World Media headed off to Providence, Rhode Island this past weekend for an inspirational visit to RISD (Rhode Island School of Design). Aside from touring the campus, and spending a few hours at the school’s design museum, we had the opportunity to attend The 2011 Lights Film Festival, a student-curated showcase of short films [...] Continue reading
Designing for a tragedy
On 3/11/11, the country of Japan suffered intense earthquakes, followed by a tsunami that ravaged the northern areas and caused untold amounts of damage. The design world followed suit, doing what it does best…which is to create. Over the past few days, I’ve had the chance to view many different designs that attempt to facilitate [...] Continue reading
Can gamers change the world?
I was introduced to Jane McGonigal, a video game designer and theorist, through the The Colbert Report, where she was a guest last week. It was quite the interesting talk, as she proceeded to briefly describe her goal to have people playing more online games, and using games to change the way problems are solved [...] Continue reading
Mary Mack 5000
Good World Media recently collaborated with game designer, Kaho Abe on Mary Mack 5000, a fast-paced, competitive, technologically enhanced twist on the classic schoolyard hand clappin’ game. In a world where screen based video games dominate, Mary Mack encourages players to engage in face-to-face interaction, improving social and personal experiences. Players compete in teams of [...] Continue reading
Introducing the Good Blog.
When we decided to add a blog section to our new website, we knew it would arrive with the usual amount of cynicism. Another blog? Why would someone spend their time reading yet another blog? Aren’t there enough out there already? Sure, we’d be the first to concur that there are a lot of blogs [...] Continue reading