2005 · Adventure · Educational

Food Force

Food Force is an Educational game published by the United Nations World Food Programme in 2005. Players take on missions to distribute food in a famine-affected country and to then help the country to recover.

Released: 2005
Platforms: Linux Windows macOS
Genres: Adventure Educational Simulation
Developers: —
Publishers: World Food Programme
Modes: Single-player
Themes: Educational
Country: United Kingdom

About

Food Force is an educational video game published by the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) in 2005. It is a serious game (game with educational purpose). Players take on missions to distribute food in a famine-affected country and to help it to recover and become self-sufficient again. At the same time they learn about hunger in the real world and the WFP's work to prevent it.

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Gameplay

The game takes place on the fictional island of Sheylan in the Indian Ocean, which is suffering from both drought and civil war. The player's character is a rookie who has joined a team of UN experts, including a nutritionist, a logistics officer, a pilot, an appeals officer, and the director of food purchasing.

The game contains six missions:

Legacy

Food Force 2, based on Food Force, has been developed as free software under the terms of version 3 of the GNU General Public License. It is cross-platform as it is written in the Python programming language, and runs on platforms including the One Laptop Per Child XO and the Sugar desktop environment. Food Force 2 is available for download for Linux, Windows and Mac OS X.