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This game teaches players to make microcredit loans to the poor (exclusive)

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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Micmali is running with the idea of saving the world through video games. The company launched a Kickstarter campaign today to raise funding for a mobile game called World Agent BRAC that will teach people how to make loans for the poor in Bangladesh.

The Palo Alto, Calif.-based Micmali is working with the nonprofit group BRAC, which works in poor nations in Asia and Africa (along with Haiti). It will donate a portion of game proceeds to help microfinance education in Africa. This effort is part of a growing movement of games with charitable intentions, dubbed “games for change” or “serious games.”

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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.