Darfur is Dying Video Game
After playing Darfur is Dying at www.darfurisdying.com, answer the following questions:
What did you think about the video game? Do you think video games are an appropriate way to inform people about global issues and concerns? What did you learn about Darfur from the video game? What could be done to improve the video game?
October 31st, 2007 at 1:06 am
I think the video game about Darfur is a brilliant game !!!! So definitely video games are an appropriate way to inform people about global issues and concerns because this video game let’s us know and teach us how people face various kind of torture. Not only that but it also gives us a chance to participate by being one of the members from Darfur to let us exprience the life in Darfur. While I was playing the game, it gave me a shock to see how people have gone through and then I realized how people must have felt while going through this disaster situation. I feel really sorry for those people who are facing all kinds of torture even if they didn’t do anything harm… especially for the little ones because they are young and innocent who even doesnot know what’s happening or going to happen in their up coming future. I could also see that there was no difference between big or small because everybody had to face the same amount of risk or danger. I have learnt a lot from this video game about Darfur such as: each day people in Darfur face torture, destruction, and other abuses by the Sudanese government. Nearly 3 milllion people have been affected by the crisis. More than 300,000 people have died from conflict and diseases. 2.5 million civilians have been displaced by the conflict. TO improve the video game they should add some more slides that lets us be one of the members of Darfur so that we can learn more and think about the crisis in Darfur. I really hope from my bottom of my heart to end this crisis at once!!!!!
November 1st, 2007 at 3:04 am
In my opinion, the video game is good for learning about situation in Darfur. We can participate as a person who is in Darfur. It shows me how they live and what is going on their life. They need to get water themselves, and it is very difficult and dangerous. They must hide their own bodies to escape Janjaweed militias everytime. Also they cannot get much amount water that they want and need because they have to run fast to save their lives. Although it is very dangerous and hard to get water, they must do that in order to keep their lives. And the game shows me that they cannot live safely. They do not know when Janjaweed militias attack them, and it makes them awfully. They need to get water in order to rebuild their villages and raise food stuffs. Even if I just played it as a game, it was so hard to survive 7days. I tried more 5 times to survive 7days, and I finally made that very hardly. I think video games are an appropriate way to inform people about global issues and concerns. The video games make that people can understand global issues and concerns more easily. It attracts people’s interest, and people can deal with many problems more interesting through the video games. I think we study about a problem that will be made as a video game, and we should think about how can the video game is made in order to help understand people much easier. These things could be done to improve the video games. I think that the game ‘Darfur is dying’ help me a lot understand lives of people who live in Darfur and their difficulties. In my opinion, these video games make that people can be concerned about the problems more easily, and it really help many people who study about the problems like us.
November 2nd, 2007 at 12:31 pm
I think that the video is very great ,that like kind of help the people a little bit to understand what is going on in Durfur. Yas; i think this video game is appropriate way to inform people about global issues and concerns. I learned that people could be capture at anywhere and anytime and the foods and water supplies are very needed from them. Also this video game is the best, I don’t have anything negative to say about it.
November 4th, 2007 at 10:23 pm
The video game was a great and unique idea that whoever invented it was a smart person. Now times everybody in general has this addiction for technology, so i think this is a grant way to attract people. And letting them now what’s going on in Darfur.
When playing video games peolple can get so excited and concentrated on it that they feel ass if everything they do in the game was real, basically playing a video game is an experiance. People had the opportunity to feel what is happening in Darfut by playing this game.
I’m happy to see somebody worried about Darfur’s issues and passing the word around the word because the game isn’t only in one language this means people from many different countries are playing and getting awared about what is happening in Darfur.
Have created this game was way helpful. I don’t think the game should have some repaires, because it was all the inventor’s idea and whatever is in the game was his/her creation. It is perfect the way it is already.
November 8th, 2007 at 3:31 pm
It was fantastic game! I mean I didn’t want to see peoples are died by the war in these way when i play it in reality way at all but it is just a game. I think it is a good appropriate to let know people that there is war in darfur they will notice to find out the way to help them I learn that womans,man childrens are triy to find ways that not to be dead or eals. I think we all should win these terroble war by helping them.
November 8th, 2007 at 6:31 pm
I think this game was really interesting, it’s a fun and easy way to us something important.it was unique and helpful for us all, is very important to let people know what is going on in Durfur, and is a easy way to inform people about global issues too.
November 8th, 2007 at 7:07 pm
I think the video game was okay. It was a good way to inform you about the happenings. I learned that the people in Darfur need water. I also learned that the soldiers are killing many people just because they are in their way. That is not a good reason to be out there killing at will. I think that the creator of the video game sholud have make the game more interesting. It should have been more atractive.