MoveOn.org and Jane McGonigal created an anti-Trump game.
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Anti-Trump election game comes from MoveOn.org and game scholar Jane McGonigal

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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Video game designer Jane McGonigal and political group MoveOn.org have teamed up to create a video game, SwingVoter Go, aimed at defeating Donald Trump in the presidential election.

After the events of the last few days and the debate last night, some may feel that an anti-Trump game seems hardly necessary. But it is a way for gamers and game designers to express themselves in a rancorous political season. They modeled after the wildly popular Pokémon Go mobile game. The mission is to mobilize swing voters in social media networks to stop Trump.

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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.