Food Force is created by WFP (World Food Programme) 2005 its an educational game.
The goal of the game is to teach children about hunger and humanitarian work. The game is available in seven different languages.
The game take place on a fictional island (Sheylan) which is suffering from drought and civil war. The players takes on missions to distribute food and to help the country recover and to stand on its own.
The game contains six missions:
1.Air surveillance: Locating hungry citizens in a helicopter
2.Energy pacs: Produce a balanced diet of rice, cooking oil, beans, sugar and salt within a budget of only 30 cents per day
3.Air drop: drop food supplies in a target zone, while compensating for wind direction
4.Locate and dispatch: co-ordinate supplies of purchased and donated food from around the world
5.Food run: Lead a food convoy to a depot, dealing with hazards like landmines and roadblocks
6.Future farming: Use food aid to help a village develop over 10 years, by investing it carefully for nutrition, training, schooling, "food for work" and HIV/AIDS treatment
Screen shot of mission 4
Mission 4: Locate and dispatch
This is your challenge in Mission Four, where you’ll meet Miles, Food Force’s director of food purchasing – he’s on hand to help you with the task. The aim of the mission is to complete the logistics puzzle and fill up Sheylan’s food supply chain for the next 6 months
high score
http://www.food-force.com/index.php/game/high-scores/
http://www.un.org/apps/news/story.asp?NewsID=20197&Cr=food&Cr1=hunger
Comments (1)
It would be great to see studies of how this game has affected attitudes towards this issue and the UN in general in the USA. I wonder how much the game also looks at the negative sides of food aid, including underdevelopment of local agriculture, misappropriation of aid by corrupt politicians, etc.
Posted by Andy | October 13, 2006 10:30 PM
Posted on October 13, 2006 22:30