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Suffering under Global Poverty
by Ian Bogost August 6, 2008
categories:
Educational Games
, Public Policy Games
Ack. Check out the Race Against Global Poverty Game. According to its sponsors, the game is supposed give "children living in the UK the chance to learn about the developing world in a fun and stimulating way." I wonder what went wrong here. It's a graphically lush simulated board game with cute, carefully crafted horse-type creatures as tokens, but the game is just trivia, and there's no sound, and its neither fun nor stimulating, but rather insipid.
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