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Susana Ruiz's game design studio for "casual games for change": Darfur is Dying (genocide), Finding Zoe (gender stereotypes and abusive relationships), and In the Balance, a documentary game about the justice system in the US that uses animation and documentary footage of real prisoners. 

Computer games have a broad appeal that transcends gender, culture, age and socioeconomic status. Now, computer scientists think that creating computer games, rather than just playing them could boost students' critical and creative thinking skills as well as broaden their participation in computing." id="metasummary

I totally agree. But from my experience having students write interactive fiction in a senior seminar, this is a very time- and resource-intensive way to impart those skills. Not sure it is doable as part of a broader course. Perhaps a full course in game design is yet another thing to add to the stack of basic literacies in the general curriculum...

Perhaps thinner and/or lighter projects would work better. Thinner: spread the work even further across a class. Individual projects ->groups, groups ->whole class. Lighter: even easier to use tools. Inform is pretty easy, though...

games and girls

Excellent! Would love to hear from the program.

Terrific idea.