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Food Force (1 comment)
Play Game >> Age Range Ages 7 and up
Brief Description
Food Force is an educational action computer game that teaches kids about the problem of global hunger and the importance of humanitarian aid work.
Release Date April 2005Developer Deepend Srl for the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP)
Project Lead Brenda Barton, WFP Communications Division
Press Coverage
A small selection is available at http://www.food-force.com/index.php/press/.
Press Release URLhttp://www.food-force.com/index.php/press/
Full Description
Food Force consists of six missions. Each mission begins with a briefing by one of the Food Force characters, who explains the challenge ahead. The player then has to complete the task - in which points are awarded for fast and accurate play and good decision making.
Each mission uses a different style of gameplay to appeal to children of all abilities. Each mission represents a key step of the food delivery process from emergency response through to building long-term food security for a community. Following each mission a Food Force character returns to present an educational video showing the reality of WFP’s work in the field. This allows children to learn and understand how WFP responds to actual food emergencies: Where food originates, the nutritional importance of meals, how food is delivered and how food is used to encourage development.
Metrics
How are you measuring results?
Primarily we are gauging our success by the number of game downloads and the media coverage received.
What outcomes have been measured?
Over 5 million downloads of the game to date and extensive worldwide media coverage.
Non-Profit involved:
Funding Sources: WFP
Sponsors/In-kind donations: Hosting: Yahoo! Games Sponsorship for 14 localisations of the game also obtained.
Budget
Overall: 350,000 (approx)
Social Issues/Channels Poverty Game Tags
humanitarian aid work
nutrition
logistics
hunger
Where you can play this game The game files are hosted on the Yahoo! Games servers; the game can be downloaded from www.food-force.com. It is a large file which requires a fast internet connection. The game is available both for PC and Mac.
Contacts
General Silke Buhr, silke.buhr@wfp.org
Press Silke Buhr, silke.buhr@wfp.org
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Posted on December 19 2008 4:38 PM
There are a lot of things I like about Food Force:
The game brings to life the important work of the UN’s World Food Programme by letting the player play through some of their real-world activities - going out on “missions” to identify people in need, dropping food rations, managing a UN convoy. It’s also aimed at a younger audience than many of the games on our site, which is helpful to parents whose kids are new to games. I would recommend parents sit down with their kids and play with them the first few times. It will be compelling for parents as well.
And finally, perhaps my favorite thing about Food Force is that it gives kids a way to consider “humanitarian” as an option to the age-old “What do you want to be when you grow up.” There aren’t many ways for kids to think about “humanitarian” as a career option. Here’s a fun way for them to do that.