Serious Game Classification

Ben's Game Eric Johnston (Ben Duskin / Eric Johnston) (U.S.A.), Make-A-Wish Foundation (U.S.A.), 2004  

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Classification

SERIOUS GAME
(Newsgame)

Keywords

Action - Arcade - Educational - Shooter - Therapeutic action

Purpose

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

Market

This title is used by the following domains:
  • Entertainment
  • Healthcare

Audience

This title targets the following audience:
 Age : 12-16 / 17-25
General Public

Gameplay

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

The core of gameplay is defined by the rules below:
AVOID : explanation of this brick MATCH : explanation of this brick DESTROY : explanation of this brick MOVE : explanation of this brick SELECT : explanation of this brick SHOOT : explanation of this brick
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Ben's Game Ben's Game is a video game about fighting cancer.

The game was conceptualised by Ben Duskin—an 8 year old American boy in remission from Leukemia. When interviewed by Make-A-Wish, he asked to design a video game to help other children endure cancer treatments. He remembered his oncologist telling him to visualize chemotherapy eating cancer cells and came up with the idea to create a video game. Eric Johnston, a software engineer from LucasArts created the game. It is freeware, available in Mac and PC formats, multilingual (9 languages) and can be downloaded on-line. Duskin and Johnston were awarded the "Unsung Hero of Compassion" by the Dalai Lama on 6 November 2005.
[source:wikipedia]

Distribution : Retail - Commercial
Platform(s) : PC (Windows)

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