April 14, 2005

Only YOU can save Sheylan. The United Nations World Food Programme brings you Food-Force, the game about saving a community from starvation, not aliens, by completing 6 different missions. Play online, or download. (Warning: The downloaded version takes 30 minutes on broadband - insert your own joke about bureaucracy here.)
posted by Northern Exposed 19 years ago
  • I work for the bureaucracy. Sometimes the only way you can get young'uns attention is by relating to them in terms they can relate, hence, this game. But yeah, you gotta laugh at the bureaucracy sometimes...
  • Oops. It's a download only. Darn, I was hoping to take on some other Monkeys in an online Food-Force to the death challenge.
  • is this the version UN3.1 release that allows one to demand sex from children prior to giving them food?
  • I don't have the time for the download, but sugarmilktea is right. If this game is well done, it will at least keep kids nominally aware of the UN Food Program. A step in the right direction.
  • Kids tend to resent *anything* with a moral. That being said, in the old days, you'd take whatever video game you could get your hands on. Now there's so much to choose from, it's got to have addictive gameplay if it doesn't have the eye candy. Sorry to be so pragmatic.
  • I don't think they created this game for "all the kids out there" but a more select target audience. Many magnet schools offer classes that model current UN programs. I can see where a game like this would probably be useful in such an environment... But I would have to agree with you Rorschach.