Playing Dangerous Games in School

This War of Mine is a survival game in which the player is tasked with helping a group of civilians survive a modern day siege, based on the siege of Sarajevo in the 90s. The daytime is spent crafting stuff for survival and keeping the morale up, in the night you go scavenging, and face a lot of tough choices: is it okay to steal from other survivors to get by? Will you intervene when you encounter violence? Should you trade items with other survivors who come knocking on your door? Your group of civilians are not trained for combat, and will most likely get killed if you must fight soldiers or other survivors. The game is very punishing, but players can also experience random acts of kindness.

Keep Talking, and Nobody Explodes is a local multiplayer game for two people, one player must disarm bombs, the other player must use the defusal manual to instruct the other player.

In this workshop participants will play the games, and discuss how the games can be used in a classroom. Laptops and iPads with the games are provided.