Game Classification

Madame Fardo (Dossier chômage - Madame Fardo) Caroline Bordecq, Karolin Brohee, Aurélia D’Hollander, Emilie De Dekker, Jérôme Guisse, Marie Hamone (France), Master journalisme à l’ULB (France), 2014 Play it Now !

Informations Analyses Serious Gaming
 

Classification

SERIOUS GAME
(Newsgame)

Purpose

Besides play, this title features the following intents:
  • Educative message broadcasting
  • Informative message broadcasting
  • Subjective message broadcasting

Market

This title is used by the following domains:
  • Humanitarian & Caritative

Audience

This title targets the following audience:
Age :
General Public

Gameplay

The gameplay of this title is Game-based
(designed with stated goals)



Madame Fardo Serious Game Main Menu The concept:

On the border enter newsgame and Serious Game, students in Master's degree Journalism of the University Libre of Brussels ( ULB) decided to approach the question of the unemployment with the video game. They so developed Serious Game to arrest the questions bound to this problem at the young people: what are the existing solutions? What initiatives are thrown to fight against the youth unemployment? And what of better than the video game to affect the young people and raise a subject so delicate …



The test:

This serious game in the style 8bit remains simple in its realization but particularly relevant. The gameplay will delight gamers from the very beginning. You embody Madam Fardo and leave on the meeting of various interlocutors (councillor, researcher of employment), as for a real job search. The travel is made in a classic way by means of the arrows of the keyboard and the bar of space.
Where it's getting more complex, it is when comes the hour of the tests! Based on the tests of Selor, the proposed riddles are going to make work your brains. I let you judge by yourselves the difficulty of the tests …

Distribution : Internet - Free
Platform(s) : PC (Windows)

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