ABSTRACT

This chapter explains some of the emerging and miscellaneous game used to remind of other ways to employ games towards goal. Human computation games add a person’s ability to make observations, act as critical problem solvers, or creative solution finders to typically complex problems. One of the most successful human computation games was actually a game about protein folding. The game Urgent Evoke was originally designed by Jane McGonigal in 2010, as a “crash course in changing the world.” The game aims to evoke new ideas on how to address a myriad of problems in the communities for which it is designed. It was originally created for Africa, but the World Bank has since used it in other regions as a way to get people, particularly young people, to not only think, but act on addressing challenges in their community.