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The West Yorkshire Police Department has joined forces with UK-based flash games developer Dubit to produce a socially-conscious online children's game. "City Zone" is a simplistic, RPG-style game in which you complete various good deeds such as finding an old lady's cat with "fish perfume", or delivering tax credit documents to a goth. Occasionally during play, dialog boxes pop up that have a civic problem, such as litter in the streets, and a list of possible solutions (making prisoners clean it up, starting an ad campaign, ignoring it, etc) and their associated costs. The player's decision is followed by a News Alert dialog that reports on the success or failure of the choice. The bland graphics and tinny sound are offputting, but overall this has a bit more tooth than the average edutainment monstrosity.
City Zone aims to encourage good behaviour [GamesIndustry.biz]
UK Police Produce Pedagogic Flash Game
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12:02 PM on Thu May 25 2006
By Eliza Gauger
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