The Life.Love. Game Design Challenge asks developers to find fun ways to teach teenagers that relationships aren’t supposed (...)
The Life.Love. Game Design Challenge asks developers to find fun ways to teach teenagers that relationships aren’t supposed to be abusive. After his daughter, Jennifer Ann, was murdered by an ex-boyfriend in 2006, Drew Crescente wondered what he could to raise awareness about teen dating violence. He set up the Jennifer Ann Crecente Memorial Group, with a web site, and started distributing literature, bookmarks, and other material. But he wasn’t particularly happy with the result. Apart from anything else, all the packing material started to dominate his living-room. "I figured I better start something a little less tangible," he says. So, eventually, he started a video game contest: the Life.Love. Game Design Challenge, which is now in its sixth year, and just announced its 2013 winners.Read Full Story