Food-Force

April 24, 2005 4:52 PM

Food-Force • An educational video game from the U.N.'s World Food Programme. Screenshots & overview: "An aircraft circles over a crisis zone. War. Drought. People are hungry. This is the virtual world of the Food Force video game. It represents our real world, where 852 million people lack enough food to eat and World Food Programme teams deliver food aid every day using not only airplanes but a fleet of ships and thousands of trucks." Available for both Mac & PC.
posted by dhoyt (7 comments total)

Give the people twice as much food as they need, and they turn into Americans.
posted by spacewrench at 5:07 PM on April 24, 2005

Damn. NotMyselfRightNow's post didn't use Food-Force.com as the main link, so I didn't get a red flag when I submitted it. Though as soon as I posted it, I realized I should have done a keyword search....
posted by dhoyt at 5:18 PM on April 24, 2005

In the same vein.... the New Zealand Air Force has these hippy military games. It's not like Tom Clancy could write a novel/game about their missions...
posted by trinarian at 5:28 PM on April 24, 2005

The installer for the Mac version wanted to start up Classic, so I scrapped it. Is there no native OS X version?
posted by emelenjr at 6:37 PM on April 24, 2005

It was worth it just for spacewrench's very accurate comment. ;-)
posted by NotMyselfRightNow at 6:53 PM on April 24, 2005

Man, that's was a fast download! Upward of 1500 kbs. The U.N. has some nice servers, huh?
posted by zardoz at 6:54 PM on April 24, 2005

In the last mission you don't even need to give them food and you can still max out all of the bars. I think there might be a bug. :)
posted by drscroogemcduck at 12:16 AM on April 25, 2005