Prom Week is a next-generation social simulation game driven by a novel artificial intelligence engine. The goal of Prom Week is to make social interactions truly playable. While games have increasingly gotten better at physical simulation, social interactions in games still tend to be scripted, using dialogue trees or other static structures to represent in-game choice.

Real or fake? At a time when the reading public daily grapples with the question of fake news, American University’s Game Center/Jolt created an accessible, easy-to-play game that helps you sort fake news from real. For purposes of the game, “fake news” is defined as stories fabricated for fun, influence or profit, as well as satire, opinion and spin.

Game-O-Matic was conceived as a tool for generating journalistic games through a simple "concept mapping" of relevant actors and their relationships. It's a versatile way of thinking about meaning and games and can be used as a general design tool to explore the relationship between things, the metaphorical potential of game mechanics, and procedural rhetoric.

The Tell-tale Heart is a game based on one of the classic tales of Edgar Allan Poe, the master of literature & poems. This game puts you in the role of the story's narrator as you re-enact key points of the story's narrative connected to the demise of their dear friend. This high stakes game features addictive action and high-contrast, graphic novel visuals. How long can you maintain your sanity?

Polyglot is an educational game prototype for learning languages. The game is designed around 6 rooms of floating, cubicle tiles. Each tile is assigned a foreign language word, and a pictographic representation of that word. The cubes are clustered by topic, usage, or form of speech to encourage contextual recognition and aid visual memory.

Black Like Me is a puzzle game. All you have to do is discriminate by color. Affirm two colors are the same to win. The longer you play, the more the colors look alike. The game starts easy, but doesn't stay that way. Can you really tell your colors apart, or in the end does everything just look black to you?

Based on the landmark neuroscience work of NIMH researcher Dr. Daniel Pine. Players mimic the same kind of 'threat-avoidance' strategies of the proven clinical therapy, & have fun at the same time. The hope is that by embedding the neurological training within a compelling game-based experience, patients will be more engaged with the program and be able to achieve better results with treatment.

Critical Gameplay is a collection of "strategically designed" video games. Each game asks what common game mechanics teach us. The games in the collection are designed to help reevaluate our perspective on gameplay experiences. As Critical Cartography changes the way we perceive the world, Critical Gameplay seeks to offer alternate perspectives on the way we play.

Pilot a drone to pick up packages and deliver them to eagerly waiting customers. But don't fly over the wrong house! You might be issued a privacy violation. This game belongs to a relatively new genre of games, known as newsgames. Newsgames are small games intended to editorialize themes from the news through procedural programming.

Big Huggin' is a game designed for use with a custom teddy bear controller. Players complete the game by providing several well-timed hugs to a 30-inch teddy bear. Instead of firing toy guns at countless enemies or revving the engines of countless gas-guzzling virtual cars, why not give a hug?

Awkward Annie is a game developed to assess people’s abilities to understand what not to say in social situations. American University’s Game Studio for the Educational Testing Service (ETS) wanted to assess whether or not people knew the right things to say in social situations. A player is only able to see the animations when he or she chooses the wrong- or most awkward- behavior.