Published on December 10th, 2012 | by Tomas
Save the Rhino: Army vs Poachers
Help the South African Army stop poachers from killing rhinos over the vast plains of Africa in this gamified take on news.
This game was the final one we made for our month long (Nov 2012) project of gamifying Wired.co.uk’s news. We’d looked at smart roads, SpaceX’s rocket testing, nomad planets and for this final game we’ve explored the story of how the South African army is being deployed to fight poaching. In this game we wanted to explore the size of the land that needs to be covered to protect the rhino, yet also inject some gameplay into proceedings. We’ve done this via a homage of a classic old-school game; Cabal!
(This game was originally featured on Wired)
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Some blogging systems (such as WordPress.com) currently don’t let you embed a HTML5 object, so if you use such as system and want to embed the game, you’ll need to do so via an image and a link:
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About the Author
Tomas is the Creative Director at Auroch Digital and working on the new Game The News project. Interested in the real world but also a keen gamer looking to use those interests to communicate what is happening around us.
Hi guys,
Just read about your website and your initiative to blend news and gaming, think it is a great idea. Keep up the good work (:
Cora
Thanks Cora!