Zynga designers help Pulitzer Prize winners create social charity game
Posted: July 17, 2012 Filed under: Interesting Ideas Leave a comment »
Zynga announced today that it's lending out its game developers to help create a social charity game on Facebook.
Production has already begun on a "social action" game based on Half the Sky, a best-selling book by Pulitzer Prize winners Nicholas Kristof (a New York Times columnist) and Sheryl WuDunn about "turning oppression into opportunity for women worldwide." The Facebook game debuts November 13, thanks to significant staff time donated by Zynga.
Gamification of charity seems like a fairly noble cause it will be interesting to see how this initiative fairs given the backers likely well.
