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.
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. “3rd World Farmer … aims at simulating the real-world mechanisms that cause and sustain poverty in 3rd World countries. Is your community ready for an extreme event like an earthquake, flood, or hurricane? Find out with this role-playing game for community groups and schools! Players learn how important it is to build coalitions across all sectors of a community and invest in short-term and long-term resources to make their city more resilient. If you know of great learning games for change you feel should be added, use the contact form to let me know.) (I’m also in the process of giving this post a badly needed update – including a lot of games that have not been maintained over time. Buy hey, you’ll be helping out the world a bit in the process. Fair warning, you could easily eat up a big chunk of your day following the links in this post.
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