A brief overview of the Federal Games Guild, as told through memes as an introduction to a panel at Serious Play 2018 in DC. https://www.wilsoncenter.org/federal-games-guild

1. How Federal Agencies
Approach
Game Design
Serious Play 2018

2. Who are we?

3. Definition: Federal Games Guild
The Federal Games Guild (FGG) is an informal
community of practice of federal agencies who are
interested in the correlation of games for federal
initiatives.
https://www.wilsoncenter.org/federal-games-guild

5. Long Time Ago,
In A Galaxy
Far Far Away....

6. A Rebel Alliance Was Formed
(or more accurately a guild)

7. What if I told
you games
could be used
for social
good?

8. We consist of
those who use
games
& those that
make games

9. And those that
fund games*
*none of us at this panel do
this though

10. Geeky Bingo
Star Wars 2001 Space
Odyssey
Marvel
(Movies)
Doctor Who Firefly
Ghostbusters Futurama D&D LoTR Gremlins
TRON Monty Python BINGO Pacman The Princess
Bride
Harry Potter Dune Batman Star Trek Mario Brothers
Pokemon My Little Pony Rick and Morty Goonies Matrix

11. But no seriously what else do we do?
Outreach & Education: Kennedy Center's ARTSEDGE program, specifically Romeo and Juliet: a Larp, and
the Wilson Center's Serious Games Initiative
Research:
One Does Not Simply
Make A Game and Not
Measure The Impact

12. Public Outreach through Events:
July 22 2018: Smithsonian American Art Museum SAAM Arcade
January 6 2019: The US Department of Education's ED Games Expo

13. So while we started as a group of rebels

14. We are now boldly going forward
where no fed has gone before*
*bingo!

15. https://www.wilsoncenter.org/federal-games-guild
Elizabeth.Newbury@wilsoncenter.org
@enewb
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