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🎮 Level Up With G4C Learn This Spring: University Games, Playtesting, and More! 💐

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Games for Change
March 21, 2025

Welcome to the Spring G4C Learn Newsletter! 🌟 Less than ONE month to submit your game or character designs to the G4C Student Challenge! Learn about our new University-Age Division, explore a new playtesting portal powered by Endless, sign up to judge student-made games, lock in your spots for our remaining Level Up sessions, and get your early bird tickets for the G4C Festival. Keep reading for all the info! 🚀
- G4C Learn Team

We’re thrilled to announce that the 2025 Games for Change Student Challenge is officially open for submissions, and this year is extra special! As we celebrate the 10th anniversary of the program, we’ve expanded the competition to invite submissions from young people aged 18-25 for the very first time. Check out the University-Age Competition Guide to learn the rules and guidelines for this brand-new division. 

This is a unique opportunity for university students around the world to submit their original social impact games and compete for incredible prizes, including games, technology, and more. There will be two Game of the Year winners – one team from the University-Age Division and one team from the Junior/Senior Division – both winning teams will receive a $10,000 scholarship and an all-expenses-paid trip to attend the G4C Festival in NYC, powered by our partnership with the Endless Foundation. Learn more in Endless's latest blog.

🚨 There is less than a month left to submit your tabletop, digital game, and/or character design addressing this year’s themes on climate change, world hunger, and peacebuilding to the competition.

Do your students need more support with completing their projects and submitting? We’ve got a solution for that! We will be hosting a webinar to introduce a new Student Challenge feature: a platform that allows game designers to playtest and give feedback on one another’s digital games! Get an exclusive walkthrough of The Studio by Endless Studios to gain a deeper understanding of navigating the platform to set your students up for success. There will also be time allotted for Q&A to answer all of your questions about the game submission process for the Student Challenge. 

📣 Join us for this special workshop next week:

⭐ Playtest Platform Walkthrough & Competition Q&A  💻

📅 March 25, 2025 | 1:00 PM ET  👉 Sign up now!

Can’t make it? No worries Click https://studio.endlessstudios.com/studio/ and use access code G4C2025University to explore the portal and start leveling up your projects! 🚀 

With only a few weeks left of the G4C Student Challenge, our final Level Up sessions are quickly approaching! Save the dates below and please encourage your students to join us: 

  • Discover your video game superpower with Bradston Henry, Senior Advocate at Unity, as he shares his journey from mechanical engineering to game development and so much more!

🗺️ G4C Level Up Series: Oh, the Places We Came From! | Tuesday, April 15 · 6 - 7 pm EDT

  • Hear from experts Nicolette Dunks, Crystal Frasier, Corey Bowen, and Gwen Bassett from the Wizards of the Coast team at Hasbro about their pathways into the game industry, leading them to careers in game design, narrative, production, and more!

Calling all educators, game developers, and community leaders — there’s still time to host a Global Game Jam Next (GGJ Next)! Open to students worldwide aged 10-25, they’ll create a social impact game on climate change, peacebuilding, or world hunger to win a $10,000 scholarship, worldwide recognition, exposure to the video games industry, and more! Stipends are available for non-U.S. sites, learn more. Sign up for your stipend!

We’re looking for educators and game industry professionals to judge student-made games for the G4C Student Challenge! Get involved and help us empower young creators daring to design social-impact games. K-12 educators can offer valuable insights by judging university-level games, while university students and educators can evaluate games from middle and high school creators. Sign up to be a juror!

Don't miss out! Early bird tickets for the 2025 Games for Change Festival are now available! Join us June 26 - 27 at Parsons School of Design at The New School in NYC to explore ‘Designing for Tomorrow.’ The festival will bring together industry experts, changemakers, and the global community to explore how games and immersive media can break down barriers between generations, perspectives, and sectors. 🎮 🌎

🧑‍🏫 Are you an educator interested in attending the Festival? Good news! We are now offering special discounts—check to see if you qualify.

Do you know educators who would be interested in bringing games and play with the professional support and community of G4C Learn? Share this newsletter with them!