Submit by March 24, 2025

$10,000 in Prizes for Games about Communication

The theme for the Eighteenth Annual Life.Love. Game Design Challenge is Communication. Communication skills and technologies help to protect adolescents from violence and decrease the likelihood of violence occurring in their communities.

For Round One, contestants submit a game pitch using the theme of communication by March 24, 2025

For Round Two, Finalists are selected based on their submitted game pitch. The selected Finalists will then design and develop their communication video game based on their game pitches. Finalists will develop their communication video game by July 13, 2025

What is the Life.Love. Game Design Challenge?

The Life.Love. Game Design Challenge is an annual game design contest focused on violence prevention. The contest is open to game designers and game developers around the world. Entries have been received from six continents! Designers and developers are invited to create prosocial video games intended to engage, educate, and empower game players. This contest is from the award-winning Gaming Against Violence program presented by the nonprofit 501(c)(3) charity Jennifer Ann's Group

In 2025, for the 18th annual Life.Love. Game Design Challenge, the focus is on championing and supporting the value of communication for young people to help them develop, create, and maintain relationships. Effective communicators are also able to resolve conflict without violence, leading to better outcomes for teens, their communities, and society as a whole.

In the years since launching the contest it has become increasingly clear that games are fantastic tools for engaging players in uniquely compelling ways. As compared to traditional methods: players more easily understand complex, nuanced issues; they become invested and engaged in the success of the game's outcome; and they can safely explore and experience difficult situations in context

Every year since 2008 Jennifer Ann's Group has presented an annual game design competition. This annual contest encourages developers to create games about selected themes intended to help young people in the short term and benefit society in the long term. These intentionally designed prosocial games foster protective factors that, among other things, help protect young people from violence. The games that come from this annual competition engage, educate, and empower young people around the world