Economics
The Family Farmer
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The Family Farmer is an interactive documentary game accompanying the feature length film The Family Farm. The game challenges visitors to create and manage their own virtual farm, raising awareness to the large and small issues specific to family farms, of which there are fewer and fewer in Canada. The game presents the daily reality of farmers by addressing topics such as crop selection, pollution, financing and food distribution in a fun and simple interface.
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Spent
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You’re running out of money, fast. Find a job and do whatever it takes to survive a month as a member of the working poor in the United States. Spent forces the player to confront difficult decisions about life when living paycheque-to-paycheque. Balance your budget and decide how to spend money without going bankrupt. These are framed within a context of realistic financial and moral problems that force a choice between money and family or ethics. Challenge yourself to finish the month with money left over, a clear conscious, or a combination of both.
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Ayiti - The Cost of Life
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Ayiti is a strategy game in which the player takes on the role of a family in rural Haiti (Ayiti in Haitian Creole) consisting of two parents and three children. The player can assign each character different tasks (work, school, farming, etc.) in order to survive for four years. Different situations can arise (hurricanes, bandits, illness) that will make it harder or easier for the player to succeed.
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Sweatshop
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Many of the clothes available in our high fashion shops have been manufactured in sweatshops, factories that routinely pay their workers less than the minimum wage, and prevent the formation of unions to campaign for better working conditions. Sweatshop is a light-hearted game, but it’s based upon very present realities that many workers around the world contend with each day.
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3rd World Farmer
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3rd World Farmer is a simulation that illustrates the plight of poor farmers in unstable and impoverished countries. Players take the role of a desperate farming family and attempt to survive as long as possible while contending with disasters, wars, poor medical care, and unfair prices.
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