Food Force

Food Force is an educational game that was released by the World Food Programme of the United Nations WFP ​​2005. Of its content, it's a serious game ( game with a learning background ). Players start missions to distribute food in a country suffering from hunger and help him to recover and return to their own financial strength. At the same time they learn the topic of hunger in the real world to know and to prevent the work of the WFP, this.

Gameplay

The game takes place on the fictional island Sheylan in the Indian Ocean, which suffers from drought and civil war. The player is new to a team of UN experts, including a nutritionist, a logistics officer, a pilot, and the director of grocery shopping.

The game contains six missions:

  • Air Monitoring: Finding hungry citizens in a helicopter
  • Food packages: Create a balanced diet of rice, oil, beans, sugar and salt, with a budget of only 30 cents per day
  • Airdrops: airdrops of food in a target zone, with assessment of wind direction
  • Shopping and Shipping: Coordination of deliveries of purchased and donated food from around the world
  • Distribute food: Run a food convoy to a depot, where there are on the road dangers such as landmines and roadblocks
  • The future of agriculture: By food aid to develop a village over 10 years, through investment, training, " food for work " and the treatment of HIV / AIDS

Most missions of arcade -oriented gameplay are temporary. All six missions can be played in less than an hour. Players can upload the score of their games and compare online with other players.

Availability

The game is freely available in versions for Windows and Macintosh. Linux users can install it using Wine. The game was developed by British studio Player Three and the Italian company Deepend. The program uses Macromedia for the game and Quicktime for the videos.

The site of the game has also panel paintings for teachers, reports on the recent WFP work, a high score table, and other functions.

Food Force 2

Food Force 2, on the basis of Food Force, the GNU General Public License developed as free software under the terms of version 3 in the Python programming language and thus runs on platforms including the One Laptop Per Child XO and the Sugar desktop environment. Food Force 2 is currently in beta version available for download for Linux and Windows platforms.

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