{"639396":{"#nid":"639396","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Georgia Tech Students Play Key Role in IndieCade\u2019s Global Covid-19 \u2018Game Jam\u2019","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EVideo games are not just fun. They also can help give insight into experiences that charts or news stories cannot provide. That makes them a great tool to help teach people about ways to slow the spread of Covid-19.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EStudents working in the\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/dilac.iac.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003E Digital Integrative Liberal Arts Center\u003C\/a\u003E (DILAC) in the Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts are making that point in a big way with their work as part of IndieCade\u0026rsquo;s\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.indiecade.com\/jammingthecurve\/\u0022\u003E Jamming the Curve\u003C\/a\u003E game design event. They designed two video games and an epidemiological model to power them and provided an explanatory video to help game designers competing in the event, which runs through Oct. 1.\u0026nbsp; IndieCade is a highly regarded juried festival for independent games.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EDigital Media Master\u0026#39;s student Kevin Xu Tang of Atlanta helped design one of the game, called\u0026nbsp;\u003Cem\u003EEssential Workers\u003C\/em\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026quot;We wanted to show how individual decisions during a pandemic could influence others in a community and vice versa,\u0026rdquo; Tang said. \u0026ldquo;Along the way, we also realized that we could use \u003Cem\u003EEssential Workers\u003C\/em\u003E to show how brutally difficult it could be for some people to even survive the pandemic, whether financially or physically.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ETo learn more,\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.iac.gatech.edu\/news-events\/features\/covid-19-games-digital-media\u0022\u003E read the full feature\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EStudents working in the Digital Integrative Liberal Arts Center created two video games as part of a major independent game design event to help stem the spread of Covid-19.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Students working in the Digital Integrative Liberal Arts Center created two video games as part of a major independent game design event to help stem the spread of Covid-19."}],"uid":"34600","created_gmt":"2020-09-22 16:16:23","changed_gmt":"2020-09-22 16:45:04","author":"mpearson34","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2020-09-22T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2020-09-22T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"639394":{"id":"639394","type":"image","title":"Dino Store game","body":null,"created":"1600790719","gmt_created":"2020-09-22 16:05:19","changed":"1600790719","gmt_changed":"2020-09-22 16:05:19","alt":"Screenshot of Dino Store game","file":{"fid":"243104","name":"Dino-store screenshot.JPG","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/Dino-store%20screenshot.JPG","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/Dino-store%20screenshot.JPG","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":41941,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/Dino-store%20screenshot.JPG?itok=787oVJM6"}}},"media_ids":["639394"],"groups":[{"id":"1281","name":"Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts"},{"id":"1283","name":"School of Literature, Media, and Communication"}],"categories":[{"id":"151","name":"Policy, Social Sciences, and Liberal Arts"}],"keywords":[{"id":"184289","name":"covid-19"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003Emichael.pearson@iac.gatech.edu\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"email":["michael.pearson@iac.gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}