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Social Impact Games
TeachingMachines writes "If you are interested in the cultural potential of gaming you might want to check out Social Impact Games. It's a site that catalogs links to over 200 games that are entertaining but not necessarily designed for the purpose of entertainment. For example, the Monkey Wrench Conspiracy is a first-person shooter game designed to teach mechanical design engineers to use 3-D CAD software. A game titled Incident Commander will model situations that include acts of terrorism, school hostage crises, and natural disasters." -
Games With Social Impact Catalogued
Thanks to Terranova for pointing out the Social Impact Games site, whose goal is "to catalog the growing number of video and computer games whose primary purpose is something other than to entertain." Among the weird and wonderful entries are Straight Shooter, "A first person shooter game in which marketers hunt for clients in cities, airports and hotels around the world [and shoot 'idea' projectiles at them]", Sim Health, a little known Maxis-developed project that "...was designed to inform the debate in the summer of 1994 over what kind of health care system the United States should have", and God Speed 3D, which "puts you on a wild roller coaster ride... [as] you listen to [biblical] lesson questions." -
Games With Social Impact Catalogued
Thanks to Terranova for pointing out the Social Impact Games site, whose goal is "to catalog the growing number of video and computer games whose primary purpose is something other than to entertain." Among the weird and wonderful entries are Straight Shooter, "A first person shooter game in which marketers hunt for clients in cities, airports and hotels around the world [and shoot 'idea' projectiles at them]", Sim Health, a little known Maxis-developed project that "...was designed to inform the debate in the summer of 1994 over what kind of health care system the United States should have", and God Speed 3D, which "puts you on a wild roller coaster ride... [as] you listen to [biblical] lesson questions." -
Games With Social Impact Catalogued
Thanks to Terranova for pointing out the Social Impact Games site, whose goal is "to catalog the growing number of video and computer games whose primary purpose is something other than to entertain." Among the weird and wonderful entries are Straight Shooter, "A first person shooter game in which marketers hunt for clients in cities, airports and hotels around the world [and shoot 'idea' projectiles at them]", Sim Health, a little known Maxis-developed project that "...was designed to inform the debate in the summer of 1994 over what kind of health care system the United States should have", and God Speed 3D, which "puts you on a wild roller coaster ride... [as] you listen to [biblical] lesson questions." -
Games With Social Impact Catalogued
Thanks to Terranova for pointing out the Social Impact Games site, whose goal is "to catalog the growing number of video and computer games whose primary purpose is something other than to entertain." Among the weird and wonderful entries are Straight Shooter, "A first person shooter game in which marketers hunt for clients in cities, airports and hotels around the world [and shoot 'idea' projectiles at them]", Sim Health, a little known Maxis-developed project that "...was designed to inform the debate in the summer of 1994 over what kind of health care system the United States should have", and God Speed 3D, which "puts you on a wild roller coaster ride... [as] you listen to [biblical] lesson questions."