Where Public Sector Teams Build Together
DevforGov is a community of public sector teams using games to tackle real challenges and we personally connect you with the right people. When you join, we get to know your work, your challenges, and your goals, then make introductions to councils, agencies, and teams around the world who are working on something similar.
Co-develop with matched partners and share the build costs. Pool resources. Learn from what others have already built. Every project that comes in makes the library richer for everyone.
Your subscription also gives you access to a growing library of games ready to be recycled for your community.
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App Recycling
Our games are built using our app recycling approach, which means we start with a proven game framework and give it a fresh new look. We update the graphics, storyline, and sound to suit the local theme, while keeping the core gameplay the same. Contributions from any country flow back to the whole network.
Cost Effective: No need to build a new game from scratch; we're reusing a working framework.
Creative freedom: You can customise the game's visuals to be more personalised to your location or organisation.
Pay per Dev
Begin Something New
Forge the way for others. Bespoke Game Design creates original games built around your policy challenge or service design problem. We connect you with the right developers and, if it makes sense, match you with another city or team working on something similar so you can share the build costs. In return, the games created are shared back into the DevforGov platform, growing the library for everyone. If keeping the IP is important for your project, visit GeoAR.com.
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Government teams, agencies, and researchers are working independently from each other because they're not always sure how to connect or where the opportunities are. That's where DevforGov comes in. We bring everyone together.
When you join, we personally get to know your work and goals, then make introductions to the right people across our global network. Purposeful connections that can lead to shared game builds, research collaborations, and joint funding bids.
Book a Workshop
Workshops with Paper Prototyping
Workshops with Paper Prototyping are our fastest way to move from problem to possibility. We remix and repurpose existing games as conversation starters, then use hands-on prototyping to help multidisciplinary teams, including non-technical participants, build, test, and iterate ideas together in a single session.
Projects
Real projects. Real impact. Explore how councils, agencies, and public sector teams are using game-based methods to tackle social and economic challenges