Trip Hawkins has raised $6.5 million in funding for If You Can, his new startup that fuses social and emotional education and gaming.
Trip Hawkins, creator of If You Can, urged game developers to do good. He is making games that teach kids social and emotional intelligence.
The company’s first iPad game, If…, is now available in the form of a free first chapter on the Apple iTunes App Store. If… is an ambitious attempt to use gameplay to teach children skills in social and emotional learning (SEL) such as how to deal with bullies. If it succeeds, Hawkins said he will consider it a bigger accomplishment than creating blockbuster Madden NFL Football franchise years ago when he was at Electronic Arts, the massive video game publisher that he founded.
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