Hot Coffee it most definitely is not.
As reported by Joystiq, the University of Connecticut is soliciting proposals for a "safer sex video game."
According to UConn bid specs, the goal of the project is "to test the feasibility of using a PC-executable game (non-Flash) format to change the safe sex practices of an otherwise hard to reach group – urban emerging adults."
The University wants vendors to make the game "fun, motivating, and efficacious." That last one's not a dirty word, by the way.
If trials are successful - and no, GP does not know where you go to volunteer - the game will be distributed "broadly." As Joystiq notes, Europeans are already ahead of us in using game tech to teach safe sex.
Proposals from game developers are due back to UConn officials in November.
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September 25, 2006
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PHX Corp: http://kotaku.com/ea-sports-developer-calls-wii-u-crap-and-nintendo-wa-508481261 EA Sports Canada Moron calls Wii U 'Crap' and Nintendo 'Walking Dead'05/18/2013 - 11:42am
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E. Zachary Knight: If the videos are of sufficient quality that people subscribe and watch regularly, then those let's players are providing a service that people want. That is the heart of capitalism. That is not something that should be shamed.05/17/2013 - 8:06am
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E. Zachary Knight: I have no idea who either of those people are. However, I still don't see why making a business out of creating let's play videos is somehow evil or wrong.05/17/2013 - 8:04am
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MaskedPixelante: It sure is if you're just doing it for the money. See Tobuscus and/or Pewdiepie for what happens when people get into it just for the money.05/17/2013 - 7:30am
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E. Zachary Knight: Why is it wrong to make money doing LPs? Why should that be something that should be shamed?05/17/2013 - 6:20am
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MaskedPixelante: https://twitter.com/PsychedelicSA/status/335183893214924801 Now here's an interesting, glass half full thought about the Nintendo LP thing. It outs the people who are just doing LPs to make money.05/17/2013 - 5:56am
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E. Zachary Knight: I responded in writing to all this "let's play" stuff Nintendo Started. No need for my permission, I won't give it. It's not mine to give. http://divineknightgaming.com/?p=29205/16/2013 - 2:21pm
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E. Zachary Knight: Lars Doucet of Levelup Labs has a Reddit going on game companies that allow monetization of Let's Play videos. http://www.reddit.com/r/Games/comments/1egayn/lets_build_a_list_of_game_studios_that_allow/05/16/2013 - 1:04pm
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Sleaker: @Imautobot - yah I wouldn't use an emulator as a good first run test of how stable the console is, haha.05/16/2013 - 11:47am
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E. Zachary Knight: The 50th person to jump off a bridge is just as dumb if not dumber than the 1st.05/16/2013 - 10:03am
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MaskedPixelante: Yeah, let's all jump on Nintendo for doing this, even though they're hardly the first company to do this...05/16/2013 - 9:47am
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E. Zachary Knight: Wow Nintendo, this is wrong. http://kotaku.com/nintendo-forcing-ads-on-some-youtube-lets-play-video-50709238305/16/2013 - 8:44am
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Imautobot: @Sleaker, further gameplay has revealed that the controller button do stick under the faceplate. Also, The NES emulator (Emuya)keeps crashing on me, though I think a bad ROM is causing it.05/16/2013 - 7:10am
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Papa Midnight: AE: I wonder if any other publishers will follow suit.05/15/2013 - 8:12pm
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Andrew Eisen: EA is ditching Online Pass. http://venturebeat.com/2013/05/15/ea-kills-its-controversial-online-pass-program/05/15/2013 - 7:20pm
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Avalongod: @Zach and quicnkold...I've read the bill and the intent of it is to fear-monger. It's not a balanced message. I don't recall the ESRB being mentioned at all. It's more "keeps your kids away from these movies/games or they'll become violent"05/15/2013 - 4:35pm
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E. Zachary Knight: quiknkold, The big problem with that legislation is the amount of misinformation out there. Who is going to ensure that the information in the pamphlet is accurate?05/15/2013 - 3:25pm
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quiknkold: REBeardogg : I'm on the fence about this. on one side, I want parents to be aware of the ESRB, and even Movie Ratings. On the other hand, I feel this will be used for nothing but Propaganda. The ESRB does a good job.05/15/2013 - 3:07pm
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IanC: Frostbite is coming out on iOS devices. Yet the Wii U cant handle it? *coughbullshitcough*05/15/2013 - 2:31pm
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BearDogg-X: http://www.politickernj.com/65515/lesniak-ruiz-bill-limit-children-s-exposure-media-violence-clears-senate - Bill requiring schools to publish pamphlets with anti-fake media "violence" propaganda clears NJ Senate05/15/2013 - 2:03pm
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Re: Safe Sex Game Coming... It's coming...
There was an addon for Tomb Raider that made Laura appear nude, i think that game in general having her as a sex symbol was fine now having a game about safe sex? I guess its ok but don't see it becoming popular. Maybe if there was some realness to it a few london escorts walking the streets that you'd have to talk into having sex and pay them. But unless i see the game for now i think it's a ridiculous ideas and not worth paying the coders to make.
Sorry. ;)
I don't see this appealing to anyone except for the fourteen and under and very, very lonely male demographics.
Do you make if sledgehammer obvious that that is the message you're trying to pass on?
No.
You do it subtly. Games with storylines include characters in relationships that choose to "take it slow". You don't have to batter someone over the head with it either. No preachy dialogue all the time. Maybe 1 speech in 1 game out of 10 or 15. The rest, just a quiet recognition that that is the chosen path for the characters.
Naturally, characters in a video game aren't the only experiences kids will see. Kids learn more from watching others, a great many others, and the paths they choose.
I don't drink or smoke. It's kinda hard to get that across to my son because so many others around him smoke or drink. If I preach to him not to, it might actually get him more interested in doing it (opposite behaviour). He sees how other people smoking affects me physically. I think I've turned him off it.
We taught him to say "please" and "thank you" by doing it ourselves in front of him.
So, while kids will see sexual behaviour on TV, in movies, even video games, when there are people around them that AREN'T playing around, they do learn something from that. Sometimes, there is more on one side than the other. Parents always have to deal with that problem.
There's really nothing wrong with a "safe sex" game. But if there is too much preaching, directly or indirectly, the child will rebel. Sublty is a better method.
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what about a reverse Hot Coffee scenario, where carjackings are secretly embedded inside the sex game...
Huh? Huh?
You know those boxes where you put your questions when your too shy to ask about sex in front of the rest of the class class. That little box kept me entertained all week of Sex-Ed Class.
Yes I did actually put that question in the box. And yes, my teacher answered it with a completely straight face, pointing out that vampire digest blood, there fore they would presumably destroy the HIV virus when they feed off a humain being.
I knew I would learn something usfull in that class...
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