Grant Wrangler
|
FATWORLD: Online Game Explores America's Obesity Crisis
A downloadable video game about eating, obesity and the politics of nutrition, FATWORLD reconstructs a playful, small-scale society where players own and operate a restaurant, purchase groceries, create and share recipes, and make nutritional decisions over the life of a character.
As creators from independent game studio Persuasive Games describe it: "The game's goal is not to tell people what to eat or how to exercise, but to demonstrate the complex, interwoven relationships between nutrition and factors like budgets, the physical world, subsidies and regulations."
Be prepared to take the challenge: Fit or fat? Live or die? You decide.
To find out more, visit FATWORLD at: http://www.fatworld.org
Retrieved from Independent Lens newsletter: January 14, 2008
