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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Monte: trolls are just at their absolute worst when it comes to women and feminist. You could bet good money that if the developer were male the trolls would be silent and the conversation would actually focus on the journalism.10/18/2014 - 9:18pm
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Monte: Papa: Not the first time we've had a journalism scandals before, but the harassment never got close to this level; the difference with this scandal is that feminists are involved. Without the feminist angle, their would be A LOT less harrassment10/18/2014 - 9:15pm
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Papa Midnight: Monte: That's honestly rather short-sighted. As has been proven with other persons who have been targeted, if it wasn't Quinn, it would be someone else.10/18/2014 - 6:26pm
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Avalongod: I think that's part of what gives an esoteric news story like this real life...it taps into a larger narrative about misogyny in society outside of games.10/18/2014 - 3:29pm
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Avalongod: @Monte, well the trolls made death threats that came to police (and media attention). I think this is tapping into a larger issue outside of games about how women are treated in society (like all the "real rape" stuff during the last election)10/18/2014 - 3:28pm
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Wonderkarp: Zippy : Havent tried the PS4 controller. might later.10/18/2014 - 2:37pm
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Monte: Seirously, If Quinn was not involved and GG was instead about something like the Mordor Marketing contracts, the trolling would have never grown so vile and disgusting. There have been plenty of movements in the past that never sufferred from behavior..10/18/2014 - 1:57pm
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Monte: We have seen scandel's before but the trolling has never been as vile as what we see with GG. Trolls usually have such a tiny voice you can barely notice them, but its like moths to a flame whenever femistist are involved.10/18/2014 - 1:53pm
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ZippyDSMlee: Wonderkarp: You might be able to if you had a PS4 controller.10/18/2014 - 1:00pm
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MaskedPixelante: http://store.steampowered.com/app/327940/ Night Dive starts charging for freeware.10/18/2014 - 12:21pm
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Matthew Wilson: the sad thing is there are trolls on both sides of this. people need to stop acting like their side is so pure.10/18/2014 - 12:19pm
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MechaTama31: So, only speak out on a scandal that hasn't attracted trolls? I wouldn't hold my breath...10/18/2014 - 10:49am
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Monte: I feel like GG just needs to die. The movement is FAR to tainted by hatred and BS for it to be useful for any conversation. Let GG die, and then rally behind the NEXT gaming journalism scandal, and start the conversation fresh.10/18/2014 - 10:33am
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quiknkold: and we dont have a Dovakin to call a cease fire10/17/2014 - 7:37pm
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quiknkold: The whole thing is Futile. Both sides are so buried deep in their trenchs that there isnt a conversation. Its just Finger Pointing, Name Calling, Doxxing, Threats. there needs to be a serious conversation, and GG isnt it.10/17/2014 - 7:37pm
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quiknkold: I thought it was a good article. Jeff is right. I feel like GamerGate did destroy its message. I am for Ethics in game journalism, but man. so much hate. and its on both sides. I've seen some awful stuff spewed on twitter. Its a big reason why I exited..10/17/2014 - 7:34pm
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Matthew Wilson: while he focused on gg, he did call out both sides crap.10/17/2014 - 7:18pm
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Papa Midnight: That was a damn good read offered by Jeff Gertsmann.10/17/2014 - 7:17pm
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Matthew Wilson: http://www.giantbomb.com/articles/letter-from-the-editor-10-17-2014/1100-5049/ deferentially a nice write up.10/17/2014 - 6:44pm
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james_fudge: I think Evan killed it. He's a great guy and super smart.10/17/2014 - 6:38pm
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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.
nightwng2000
NW2K Software
Boy, I always wanted to learn fencing. But now... ;)
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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