Drew Crecente (mastodon: [email protected])

💫 Announcing the winning social connectedness games. Please join us in congratulating these teams. ♥️A HUGE thank you to our panel of experts who played, scored, & critiqued the games! #Prosocial #Videogames #Indiegame #Nonprofit #PublicHealth #Prevention #EDUtwitter

🥳Announcing the 2025 winning games from our 18th annual game design challenge! The topic was #communication. 🥇Wasteland of Eloquence 🥈Time to Explain! 🥉Fractured Home Details: #winning" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">communicating.games/index.html#win… #videogames #indiegame #indiedev #nonprofit #prevention #publichealth

The tenth edition of the Games for Health Europe conference will take place on the 31st March and 1st April 2025! Let’s join hands again for #healthcare and #seriousgames! gamesforhealtheurope.org #GFHEU2025

❗️Last April we reached over 20K folks with our free award-winning games about #consent. ❓How many can we reach for 2025?? 💜April is #SAAM (Sexual Assault Awareness Month) 🎮Check out & play our free games about consent at consent.games #PublicHealth #indiegames

@tmorello A few years ago, #Google removed our free award-winning games produced by our #nonprofit org which teach students about healthy relationships & #consent. Google said we misclassified them as "#educational" 😒 #publichealth #prevention #videogames

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🏆 2025 Game Design Challenge: #Communication 📆 Join by March 24th 📣 Finalists announced live: Mar 31st - Games For Health Europe Conference 📝 Finalists receive expert critiques 💰 $10,000 in cash prizes Register: communicating.games #indiedev #gamedev #Charity

Is the Steam Deck a game console or a gaming PC, and other thoughts. game.substack.com/p/consoles-are…

In an effort to elect pro-gun politicians, "America’s most iconic gun-makers turned over sensitive personal information on hundreds of thousands of customers" to groups, including #CambridgeAnalytica. propublica.org/article/gunmak… @MomsDemand @Everytown @NSSF #privacy

"... the misuse of AI technology jeopardizes the essence that defines humanity, prioritizing commercial interests." techbriefly.com/2024/10/03/whe… #AI #CharacterAI #Tech #LegalTech #Legislation

"It appears that either they are not doing the bare minimum in vetting these chatbot profiles or that their technology is so bad as to be useless." dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1… #AI #CharacterAI #privacy #technology #law #trauma

💜An anonymous donor is matching dollar-for-dollar donations today up to $1,400. #Nonprofit #DonateNow #DVAM2024 #ElPaso

More coverage of Character AI service used to create a chatbot based on my deceased daughter @stopTDV. @washingtonpost @WIRED articles came out yesterday. 🧐 Potential impacts of #AI if there are insufficient guardrails? ◾️ washingtonpost.com/nation/2024/10… ◾️ wired.com/story/characte…

⭐️ In this video, @dangelno talks about the terrible thing I dealt with last week. He also talks about the need for change & shows support for our work. 💜 I am greatly encouraged by folks like him. youtube.com/watch?v=mEZloe… #AI #Chatbot #CharacterAI @stopTDV @crecenteb

@MomsDemand The most dangerous time in an abusive relationship is as it is ending or shortly after. "Why didn't you leave?" This is one reason why. #DVAM2024 @stopTDV

A man in Bath, Maine shot and killed his wife, 58-year-old Lisa Bailey, and their daughter, 32-year-old daughter Jennifer Bailey, before turning the gun on himself. According to a family friend, Lisa had recently decided to file for divorce. #DVAM pressherald.com/2024/10/08/bat…

@crecenteb @character_ai @FTC @linakhanFTC Any chance you ftc will start cracking down on this kind of abuse as well?

Thank you @crecenteb and to everybody for their kind words and support. We will continue using #technology to do good through @stopTDV in Jen's name and memory. We remain hopeful bad actors will will one day be prevented from using technology to cause harm.

🎂Happy 100th Birthday President Carter! 🌟President #Carter is a featured guest in the free online course 'Understanding #Violence' from @EmoryUniversity. I'm honored to discuss our work using #videogames for #prevention in this great course. coursera.org/learn/violence

@Everytown Folks that treat school shootings as being as inevitable as natural disasters are broken.

J.D. Vance isn’t just weird, he’s dangerous. School shootings aren’t a “fact of life”—they’re preventable tragedies that lawmakers like him allow to happen over and over again with their refusal to act. On November 5, reject Donald Trump and J.D. Vance’s weird, extremist agenda. Ahead of tonight’s VP debate, make a plan to vote for @KamalaHarris, @Tim_Walz, and Gun Sense Candidates up and down the ballot: Text PLAN to 644-33.

If true, it's shockingly irresponsible to forbid teaching #consent in #Florida schools. 😈Only #abusers benefit by preventing students from valuing bodily autonomy from an early age. 🌟Over 10K students learn consent through our #free #games every yr.