Game-based learning for political awareness
Political game to teach civics in classrooms
Engaging political strategy game for education
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Youth-focused political literacy game
Learning politics through engaging gameplay

civic engagement studio

From apathy
to play.

We build the game-based tools that make civic participation worth showing up for.

Youth-focused political literacy game
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Game-based learning for political awareness
Commence Games Times Square Interactive learning for civic responsibility
Game-based learning for political awareness
A person holding a small card game box labeled with Arabic and English text, with another similar box and instruction sheet on a wooden table.
People socializing and drinking at an outdoor evening gathering under a covered patio with string lights and transparent plastic curtains.
Two people sitting on a couch, smiling and joking with their arms raised to show their muscles. The woman on the left is wearing a black top and plaid pants, and the man on the right is wearing a navy blue shirt and beige pants. They are in a cozy indoor setting with plants and trees in the background.
Interactive learning for civic responsibility
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Interactive learning for civic responsibility

Games let players inhabit systems, not just learn about them.

Games let players inhabit systems; institutions, incentives, power dynamics, feedback loops, rather than just being told about them. The meaning isn't transferred top-down. It's constructed by the player, through the act of playing.

Several young men and women at a technology and gaming conference, some sitting at tables and others standing, with banners displaying game and tech company names and slogans behind them.
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Game-based learning for political awareness
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Interactive learning for civic responsibility
Game-based learning for political awareness
A group of women engaged in conversation at a wooden table in a lively restaurant or café.
Two men sitting and laughing together in a relaxed indoor setting with wooden furniture and natural decor.
Two people laughing and talking while sitting at a table with beer bottles, a bowl of dip, and snacks in a cozy indoor setting.
A man with glasses and a beard drinking from a brown glass bottle. He is holding a red booklet. In the background, another person is standing, and there is a refrigerator with red and green cans visible.

from disengagement to structured participation.

from politically exhausted to playing their way back in.

What We Shift

from awareness campaigns to behavior change.

PlaY from ‘nice to have’ to essential

from workshop fatigue to methods people ask to repeat.

Services

Bias-free, Global-Centric, Multilingual by Design.

EN / AR / FR and growing. Built for wherever civic life happens, not one region's assumptions.

Policy Game Sessions

Live, facilitated sessions for classrooms, conferences and institutions. Fast to book, immediate civic impact.

Customized Game Library

Our proven mechanics, adapted to your specific context, audience or policy focus.

Fully Custom Game Design

End-to-end game design for organizations building around their own civic challenge.

A round table at a restaurant with two glasses of red wine, additional glasses of water, a glass bottle, a pack of black cards, and a black box labeled 'OFF LIMITS' on it. A person in a gray sweater is sitting behind the table with folded arms.
Board game setup on a table with cards, snacks, and a box labeled 'Media Law Pack'. There are red and yellow cards, some candies, and glasses of beverages, with outdoor seating in the background.
Political Trivia learning politics through engaging gameplay
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Civics strategy game for engagement in politics
Learning political systems through gameplay
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Commence Games on Times Square Screens
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Team-based civics learning experience
Fun way to learn about elections and policies
A hand with a purple painted fingernail holding a lit cigarette, surrounded by three glasses of beer on a wooden table, with anti-drinking campaign material and a black box labeled 'OFF LIMITS' in the center.
Three friends playing a card game on a white coffee table outdoors, with cushions and plants around.
A man with a beard and a man bun, wearing a blue button-up shirt, is smiling and gesturing with his hands, sitting in a modern restaurant or cafe.
Civics strategy game for engagement in politics
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Political trivia and strategy game for classrooms
Politicians playing political games
A purple deck of cards labeled 'Arizona Political Trivia' spread out on a black table with a separate white card titled 'Political Trivia' and a purple box.
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Interactive learning for civic responsibility

SELECT PROJECTS

UNESCO · Beirut

A bilingual media-law strategy game that put journalists, influencers, and the policymakers experiencing the newly passed media law.writing the law at the same table.

Friedrich Naumann Foundation

Three commissions: political and economic literacy card games deployed across Lebanon. Multilingual strategy, conversational and trivia games.

UN Global Compact Network + British Council

A print-and-play game as part of an awareness campaign on child marriage, built to advocate for a national civil law and educate people. Deployed across the universities and non-profits in Lebanon.

“Politics has always been a word with connotations of conflict. But playing this game showed me that people's opinions don't have to be hostile, they can be exciting!”

— JOYCE, Game SESSION PARTICIPANT

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