Serious Game Classification

Killer Flu Persuasive Games LLC (U.S.A.), UK Clinical Virology Network (United Kingdom), 2009  

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Classification

SERIOUS GAME
(Edugame)

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Purpose

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

Market

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

Audience

This title targets the following audience:
Age : 12-16 / 17-25 / 8-11
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:

Similar games


KillerFlu.jpg A flu pandemic is a scary thought?but seasonal flu can be just as bad. This simulation game grants the player the power to infect members of the populace with different flu strains, exploring how they spread across a populace and how they change as they spread.

The player selects people off the street and spins a roulette in an attempt to infect them with a flu strain they have no resistance to; with a successful infection the person is sent to their appropriate destination to infect the other inhabitants as quickly as possible before the infection passes and the infected person becomes immune. To win the game the player must hit a target number of infected persons. [source:mobygames]

Distribution : Retail - Commercial
Platform(s) : Browser (Flash)

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