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   3rd World Farmer is a new kind of game. It aims at simulating the real-world mechanisms that cause and sustain poverty in 3rd World countries.
In the game, the player gets to manage an African farm, and is soon confronted with the often difficult choices that poverty and conflict necessitate. We find this kind of experience efficient at making the issues relevant to people, because players tend to invests their hopes in a game character whose fate depends on him. The developers aim at making the player "experience" the injustices, rather than being told about them, so as to stimulate a deeper and more personal reflection on the topics...
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  Can a computer game teach how to fight real-world
adversaries—dictators, military occupiers and corrupt rulers, using methods that
have succeeded in actual conflicts—not with laser rays or AK47s, but with
non-military strategies and nonviolent weapons? Such a game, A Force
More Powerful (AFMP), is now available.
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 What is it like to live in poverty, struggling every day to stay healthy,
keep out of debt, and get educated?
Find out now in this challenging role playing game created by the High School
students in Global Kids with the game developers at Gamelab, in which you take
responsibility for a family of five in rural Haiti.
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 Get ready to travel the world, encounter exotic sights and sounds, meet unusual
people--and arrest them! Carmen Sandiego’s international crime ring is filching
world treasures ordinary thieves wouldn’t dare tackle. We’re counting on you,
Gumshoe. So when you think you’ve got the goods on the bad guys, submit your
evidence, make a case, and go to court. But beware! Your evidence must be
airtight or your suspect will go free!
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 A game where you are president of the European Nations. You must tackle climate
change and stay popular enough with the voters to remain in office.
Currently there is a growing consensus amongst climate researchers that
Earth's climate is changing in response to manmade greenhouse gas emissions. The
main debate amongst scientists is focussed on the amount of climate change we
can expect, not whether it will happen.
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 Artists Kanye West, Matisyahu, Serj Tankian from System of a Down and Olympic gold Medalist Joey Cheek are just a few of the people participating in the online launch of Darfur is Dying and are encouraging their families, friends and fans to play the game.
You can make your impact by playing Darfur is Dying and then passing it on to your family and friends.
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