Games telling stories of and for social innovation

Games for Social Change are about opportunities and choices. They are about meaningful storytelling and significative interactions. More than that, they are experiences of specific perspectives. As such, they embed, convey and transfer meanings to suggest critical reflection and change. In particular, some of them, which I consider remarkably interesting, involve us into experiences of embodiment and empathy: presenting us original and fresh points of view, they have the ability to move us and affect our mindsets. This intervention explores such games as communication systems telling stories with civic or/and political intents. It considers involvement and participation two fundamental features of games, and also constitutive aspects of the processes of individual as well as communitarian social change.