Ayiti: The Cost of Life
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The Game Help the Guinard family struggle to make ends meet and get ahead in their poverty-stricken homeland, Haiti. In this sometimes tragic and always challenging simulation game, you help the parents, Jean and Marie, and their children, Patrick, Jacqueline, and Yves, make decisions about work, education, community building, personal purchases, and health care that might brighten their future. |     |
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Submitted on Thu, 07/19/2007
In Real Lives, a software program developed by Educational Simulations, and Ayiti: The Cost of Life, developed by Gamelab with Global Kids, players are given the opportunity to experience living conditions through simulation gameplay. Both games have relevant social messages, but they feel and play quite differently.
Submitted on Thu, 06/21/2007
At the fourth annual Games For Change Festival, held June 11-12 at the Parson’s New School of Design in New York City, Global Kids, a nonprofit organization dedicated to educating urban youth in international issues, won one of the first Games for Change ("GaCha") Awards for the best games for change made over the past few years.
