From AdRants: mtvU and Reebok Human Rights Foundation sponsored a Darfur Digital Activist contest in which students created and voted for the best games created to create awareness for the genocide occurring in the Darfur region of Western Sudan.
Darfur is Dying is a narrative-based simulation where the user, from the perspective of a displaced Darfurian, negotiates forces that threathen the survival of his of her refugee camp. It offers a faint glimpse of what it’s like for the more than 2.5 million who have been displaced by the crisis in Sudan.
Directed by Susana Ruiz
Produced by Ashley York & Huy Truong
Art by Ramiro Cazaux & Corey Jackson
Code by Mike Stein & Alexander Tarr