3rd World Farmer

Submitted by Amélie Paquet on Fri, 06/29/2007 - 17:22

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Avec 50$ seulement, l'internaute doit trouver une façon de sauver la famille africaine de la famine. Il doit planter des semences et installer des puits. "3rd World Farmer" est un jeu de gestion de ressources traditionnel dans lequel l'internaute est invité à faire une prise de conscience sociale.

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Hosting website:

Arcade Town

Hosting website URL:

http://www.arcadetown.com

Date of last consultation:

January 10, 2008

Coordonnées de l'artiste:
http://www.3rdworldfarmer.com/contact.php
Groupe de recherche:
Nt2

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«What is 3rd World Farmer? 3rd World Farmer is a new kind of game. An experiment in the genre of Serious Games, it aims at simulating the real-world mechanisms that cause and sustain poverty in 3rd World countries. In the game, the player gets to manage an African farm, and is soon confronted with the often difficult choices that poverty and conflict necessitate. We find this kind of experience efficient at making the issues relevant to people, because players tend to invests their hopes in a game character whose fate depends on him. We aim at making the player "experience" the injustices, rather than being told about them, so as to stimulate a deeper and more personal reflection on the topics. We think the game has the potential to be an eye-opener to people who have become accustomed to the ordinary means of communicating third world desperation. Our aim is to have everybody play the game, reflect, discuss and act on it. The game is well suited to start off discussions about 3rd World issues, so we also encourage teachers to use it in their classes. Although the current version of the game is finished and fully playable, we will continue developing the game, updating and adding new content so as to get as rich and well-nuanced a simulation as possible. We would like our forums to be a place where discussions arise and solutions to real-world problems are suggested.»

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