Darfur+is+Dying+game

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A brief description of the game you chose? It is a flash-based browser game about the hunger and war in Darfur region, western Sudan. The game won the Darfur Digital Activist Contest sponsored by mtvU. The game begins by choosing one of the eight members of Darfur family with which to get water and apply foods for the camp needs. The members are categorized based on their sex and age. Each member has different strengths and weaknesses attributable depending on their age. Old member could carry more water than younger ones but, they mover much slower than young members. The player’s job is first, providing foods, water, and medicine to the camp and keep the a refugee camp functional for a period of seven days and is protect the refugee camps from attack by Janjaweed soldiers.

What you learned by playing the game? I learn so many things from this game: I learn how some people nowadays, are suffering form poor life and they are not able to have even food, water and living in peace. I learn that some people have difficult lives and cooperate with each other.

How the game taught you learned those things (i.e. what Principles of Learning were at work)?
 * Probing Principle: ** you have to try something in order to learn from that and try again.
 * Multiple Routes Principle: ** there are multiple ways and variety of choices we can make to solve and achieve the tasks. For example, I need to find place to hide and watch for the military truck, and at the same time I need to read how many mile left to find the water.
 * Active, Critical Learning Principle: ** This game is not passive learning. The player of this game has to think critically in their decisions they make about how they could protect the refugee camps form Janjaweed soldiers’ attachment and how they could successfully provide them with basic needs.
 * Semiotic Principle: ** I noticed that there are many interrelations within and across this game including images, words, actions, and symbols. I, as player, have learned about and understand some of the interrelation.