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Game for Legal Services Launched. Giving Away Virtual Practice Materials for Donations.

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The RocketHub crowdfund campaign was launched yesterday to raise funds to build out the estate planning game, Estate Quest. Funds will be used to build out four additional levels of the game, playtest, refine, and provide to the public to play for free. In exchange for donations, I’m giving away some signed copies of my books, a bundle of books, legal tech resources, legal tech consulting time, and some other interesting gifts. ...READ MORE

Get Your Game On: Presentation on Legal Games

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Below are the slides for a presentation I’ll be giving at the annual LSC TIG conference this week with Teri Ross, Program Director at Illinois Legal Aid Online. They cover basic info about games and why we believe they can be used to educate and direct the public to legal services. We will also be going into an explanation of the two games in development and how to go about developing other games for legal services. ...READ MORE

Connecting a Mobile Game to Real World Legal Services

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Here is an update on my game project. In my previous posts I’ve explained why I believe we can use the power of games to help us engage and empower the public to learn basic laws and legal issues. I’ve also explained the difference between gamification of the law and games that involve legal topics. The next step to explain is how a game like what I’m building with my team can increase access to real-world legal services as well as educate the public. According to my game designer, this concept is a little revolutionary for the game industry and I’m guessing it will be for the legal profession as well. ...READ MORE

Balancing Fun with Legal Nuance in Game Design

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Lawyers are trained to overthink things to the point of taking the fun out of them. I’ve learned I am no exception. This was one of the first obstacles in the process of creating a game for legal services. The game design document, the blueprint for the actual game, is almost finished. We will take this doc to the developers and rest of the team necessary for the next steps in production. Getting the theme nailed down was the first step in the process. The second was to present legal consequences in a way that is humorous and instructs through problem solving. ...READ MORE

Gamification vs Games for Legal Services

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As I’ve started talking about the game I’m developing, I hear people throw out the phrase “gamification of legal services” to describe my project. That’s actually not what I’m doing and the terminology does make a difference. There is gamification, serious games and simulations and then there are games. The difference really has to do with the design goal. ...READ MORE

Game On!

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I’m making a game and it involves legal services. For the past six months, I’ve researched the idea of creating a game that would engage and empower the public to learn legal issues surrounding personal legal services. ...READ MORE