Hand Eye Society Executive Director Jim Munroe will be running a two session workshop at the Liaison for Independent Filmmakers of Toronto:

Games with issues that engage, rather than talk down to the player, are difficult to make. This is a workshop meant to familiarize people with “serious games” — that is, a genre of games intending to do more than purely entertain, whether it be educating or presenting a point of view — and help them think about presenting their own ideas and perspective in an interactive media.

We will be playing and discussing a number of effective issue-based games, including ones the instructor has been involved in producing, such as Pipe Trouble and Unmanned. We will be discussing the importance of mechanics, the emotional impact of complicity, the power of modelling, and the tension between player agency and a linear narrative.

More info here. (Note that this is more of an introduction and overview of the subject rather than a game making workshop.)