Game Classification

PING: Poverty Is Not a Game Fondation Roi Baudouin / IBBT / Fondation Calouste Gulbenkian / Netword of European Foundat (International), Fondation Roi Baudouin / IBBT / Fondation Calouste Gulbenkian / Netword of European Foundat (International), 2010 Play it Now !

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Classification

SERIOUS GAME
(Newsgame)

Keywords

Edugame - News game - Poor

Purpose

Besides play, this title features the following intents:
  • Informative message broadcasting

Market

This title is used by the following domains:
  • Humanitarian & Caritative

Audience

This title targets the following audience:
 Age : 8 to 11 years old / 12 to 16 years old / 17 to 25 years old
General Public

Gameplay

The gameplay of this title is Game-based
(designed with stated goals)

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PING: Poverty Is Not a Game PING is an online game made for secondary schools, forming a starting point to discuss the subject ‘poverty’ and what it means to be poor. Ping is aimed at the students of the secondary and third degree. The students become the main characters in the game. They can choose between Jim or Sofia, who, due to certain circumstances, end up on the street and need to find their own path.

PING shows that games can help to introduce complex social subjects like poverty in the class room.

The partners of the PING project want to contribute to the social debate encouraging the use of games at school as a tool to open the difficult discussion about poverty.

PING was made possible with the help of The King Baudouin Foundation (Belgium), IBBT (Belgium), with The Network of European Foundations, the Robert Bosch Stiftung (Germany) , the Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian (Portugal/UK) and Fondation Bernheim (Belgium).

Distribution : Retail - Internet - Free
Platform(s) : Browser - Macintosh - PC (Windows)

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