Nicole Lazzaro , the founder and President of XEODesign, Inc., is one of the silver medal winners of the International Serious Play Awards Competition with the Serious Game Tilt World in the Games for Good category. Tilt World is an iOS game that sets Flip, a tiny tadpole, against the forces of an evil pollution called the Blight. Players help Flip eat carbon and gather seeds to turn a desolate wasteland into a lush green forest both on the iPhone and in the real world. Playful, but with a strong ecological message, Tilt World makes use of the smartphone or tablet’s accelerometer to make Flip the tadpole help fight the Blight that has affected Shady Glen by eating carbon and planting seeds. The game is tied to a real world impact: each time Flip attempts to save Shady Glen (an area that needs reforestation) your in-game actions will be mirrored in a real world campaign which intends to see one million trees planted in Madagascar. You will need to tilt your iOS-p
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