By "Man" The students of the second Playing for Keeps session walked in and sat down quietly. Most of them did not know each other, but all it took was one question - "So, what games do you all play?" - for them to...
By Melissa
Students at SIS were joined by middle schoolers from around the city to take part in Global Kids' signature "Playing for Keeps" program. They used MIT's open source video game design software,Scratch, to program and design games about environmental issues ranging from...
By Melissa Our SIS students are officially GPS game designers! This week was packed with activities all leading up to a presentation at the Weeksville Heritage Center where students from the School for Human Rights playtested the new game. There was lots of work to...
By Melissa
Thanks to a generous grant from TimeWarner Cable, OLP's 2013 NYC Haunts summer camp is up and running! Middle School students from the School for International Studies came together this week to begin designing a geo-locative game set during the Civil War draft riots...
By Joliz
After three amazing years our time at MS 391, the Angelo Patri Middle school has come to an end. We wanted to celebrate with a look back to some of the highlights over the years including; the inception of NYC Haunts, creating anti-bullying comics,...
Do you play online games? Ever wonder what it would be like to make one? Come to a Game Design Summer Camp at Global Kids! During this intensive one week workshop, you will: Learn the concepts of game design including...
What happens when resources are unequally distributed? Do citizens learn to cooperate and trade? Or is violence inevitable? Those were some of the questions pondered by Global Kids’ Playing For Keeps youth leaders at Hungercraft 2.0, an event at the...
By Juan Rubio
Global Kids Youth Leaders As part of the National STEM Video Game Challenge, Global Kids youth leaders in the Playing for Keeps program designed and led game design workshops that will reach over 200 New York...
By Joliz
Our Hive Youth Council Emoti-Con A-Team sub-committee has been hard at work ensure that this year's digital media festival is our best yet! Check out the video below to learn more about Emoti-Con and why you...