Look , bullying is manifestly a serious issue , but the theme of a television game that aim bullying go pretty absurd . It ’ll just give more fuel to bully ! “ What did you diddle last night , GTA4 ? ” “ No , an anti - blustery game . ”
Over at the Heriot - Watt University in Edinburgh , student are working on a Victec program which is creatingvideo gamesthat show victims alternative choices to just putting up with it . The program uses ( and here ’s the playfulness part ) FearNot ! technology , which stands for Fun with empathetic Agents to extend to Novel Outcomes in Teaching . Oh pricy . Each biz has three unlike type of character — bullies , bystanders and of course of action , the dupe .
To be fair to the developers , anything that can help kids get out of the cycles/second of intimidation is well deserving it , and while I can see the university ’s thinking here ( “ oooh , kids like telecasting games , right ? ” ) I just ca n’t see child actually wanting to play this . Unless school promote it and force it upon the students ? Bully them into it ? [ FearNot ! viaArs Technica
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