A forthcoming video game aims to teach children about global hunger.

Food Force is the brainchild of the World Food Programme (WFP), which last year fed more than 100 million people.
The UN body seeks to capitalise on the popularity of video games to educate youngsters about hunger and the work of the aid agency.
The game is due to be released later this year for the PC and Mac, and will initially only be available in the US as a free CD or download from the net.
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"The game itself is somewhere between a game like Tomb Raider and a lecture from the WFP," explained the game's designer, Mike Harrison.
"It starts with a short movie that explains a crisis in an imaginary country due to drought and civil war, two of the main reasons for people being hungry in the world,"
The challenge for players is to complete a series of missions, guided by a team of WFP characters.
The missions range from dropping food parcels from the air to a Sim City type game where players use food aid to rebuild the country's economy.
But there is more to the game than just fun. At the end of each mission, players are shown a short video explaining how the aid agency would have dealt with the situation.
Children can also compare their scores with other players across the world on the Food Force website.
Food Force will be free, either as a CD or as a download from the internet. The WFP is also looking at distributing it in schools as an educational tool.


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Maybe is just a drop in the ocean, but if done in a proper way can bring many results.

It would be nice if it is a success. Somehow, I dont see it as being one, when you have stuff like DOOM 3 released.

What is Doom3 in simple words pls am old :os

Doom 3 is a game, a sequel to the amazing DOOM 2. I havent played doom 3, but no doubt its amazing. You have a gun (many actually) and you shoot things until they die. Typical video game, insanely fun to play.

You have a gun (many actually) and you shoot things until they die.
Well maybe with a strong propaganda and since is free, plus with a lil bit of good will from family, teachers and boys themselves, they first shoot for 2 or 3 hours then go and save a village and maybe will realise how silly was the shooting ;)
No offence for gamers here :help:

Amo, here's a screenshot of a game I'm playing right now (Manhunt) ...

http://image.com.com/gamespot/images/2003/ps2/manhunt/manhunt_screen005.jpg

Coming back to the game you mentioned, it would be good if the game actually became a hit with the kids or even adults! ;)

Okokokk understood the point, hopeless mission :no:
When it comes out i will tell to Sloath, am sure he will appreciate :p

amo_l_oman, on whose money for heaven sake is WFP creating that so called free game ?

if they really care for humanity why don't they create a game of so called 'peace road' for the people of Palestine ( i mean the real in reality sense of the people of that land which constitutes as has always been jews, christians and muslims) so that we play and find ourselves w/o realising it, in few generations, ahead come across long awaited peace instead of THIS endless 'war-cancerous' which now seems to spread across the globe :duh:


the bread earning Entrerprise aka World Food Programe ought not to advertise itself to youngsters of the world. They ought to do something useful other than that. Beside it is not Africa alone that gets food excreted by aeroplanes, but look at those hungry people in Poland even New York City. Where is the role of WFP to those guys ? Why they want to brainwash 3rd World population to expect airdropped food ?

I hope SoMe1 is going to care and answer my querries. But frankly speaking the idea about the game is pathetic. Remember the wise Chinese saying "Don't give me fish but teach me how to catch it ???????"

I'd better wouldn't have pmed you about this thread :p
Sloath i believe in the politics of small steps, not in great ones cause they always fail.
As you see the final goal of the game (young people) prefer Doom so alas what to do :duck: