Food Force 2
Encyclopedia
Food Force 2 is an Educational game
developed with an aim to defy the pedantic system followed in many countries and to help children explore the community, learn importance of food nutrition.
The key learning areas on which the game focuses are:
under the terms of version 3 of the GNU General Public License
. It is cross-platform
as it is written in the Python programming language, and runs on platforms including the One Laptop Per Child XO
and the Sugar desktop environment. Food Force 2 is available for download on Linux, Windows and Mac OSX platforms.
Educational game
Educational games are games that have been designed to teach people about a certain subject, expand concepts, reinforce development, understand an historical event or culture, or assist them in learning a skill as they play...
developed with an aim to defy the pedantic system followed in many countries and to help children explore the community, learn importance of food nutrition.
Game Play
The game currently has a storyboard, which is developed from a viewpoint of an Indian villager, who is the Sarpanch (The administrator of the ruling body, Panchayat, of the village) of a village and his son helps him in the development of the village, who is the next candidate for the position currently held by his father. The story has 9 missions for the player. All of them deal with the different aspects of the management of a village.The key learning areas on which the game focuses are:
- Strategy for developing the village.
- Sustainable development of the resources present in the village
- Technology and its use
- Collaboration to solve community problems
- Crisis Management
Availability
Food Force 2, has been developed as free softwareFree software
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under the terms of version 3 of the GNU General Public License
GNU General Public License
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. It is cross-platform
Cross-platform
In computing, cross-platform, or multi-platform, is an attribute conferred to computer software or computing methods and concepts that are implemented and inter-operate on multiple computer platforms...
as it is written in the Python programming language, and runs on platforms including the One Laptop Per Child XO
OLPC XO-1
The XO-1, previously known as the $100 Laptop, Children's Machine, and 2B1, is an inexpensive subnotebook computer intended to be distributed to children in developing countries around the world, to provide them with access to knowledge, and opportunities to "explore, experiment and express...
and the Sugar desktop environment. Food Force 2 is available for download on Linux, Windows and Mac OSX platforms.