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Cats Your Vote mobile game aims to boost U.S. election awareness

A team of University of Southern California video game students has created Cats Your Vote, a free-to-play social mobile game that aims to increase voter awareness of the 2020 U.S. election.

The game is a “massively single player game” that encourages collective action, and it explores short-sighted vs. far-sighted decision making, living with the results, and voter regret. It’s about what’s at stake if you don’t participate in democracy. And yes, it’s about cats. It’s one of 50 student games that’s part of USC’s Games Expo 2020 virtual event on Tuesday.

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Dean Takahashi

Dean Takahashi is editorial director for GamesBeat. He has been a tech journalist since 1988, and he has covered games as a beat since 1996. He was lead writer for GamesBeat at VentureBeat from 2008 to April 2025. Prior to that, he wrote for the San Jose Mercury News, the Red Herring, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, and the Dallas Times-Herald. He is the author of two books, "Opening the Xbox" and "The Xbox 360 Uncloaked." He organizes the annual GamesBeat Next, GamesBeat Summit and GamesBeat Insider Series: Hollywood and Games conferences and is a frequent speaker at gaming and tech events. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.