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That's a tad ironic, isn't it? | |
My god Michelle Obama is one attractive lady. And I dont mean that in a sarcastic way either. | |
Modern Warfare 2 perhaps? It teaches you not to speak Russian on airports! Was that a terrible joke? I'm sorry, it was the first thing that popped into my mind | |
Look at the Wii. It reeks of healthy-ness... And thats one reason we hate it. Calumon: Wow, she's pretty! I wonder if she's healthy? | |
Wouldn't Street Fighter encourage kids to get into shape? Even the fat guy has an eight-pack. | |
Wait, look at the judges. Mark Pincus is going to decide what game is healthy for kids? | |
Well there is Wii Fit and those old fitness Eyetoy games. At least this for the good of the children and some game designers. | |
The games industry does not need to justify it's existence, since the movie industry did not. | |
How about a game that promotes a First Lady who shuts the hell up? | |
GTA San Andreas teaches kids that if you eat fast food you get fat but you can get better at mugging people, punching women to death and running from the police if you work out. That sounds exactly like what she is looking for. | |
make a game that crashes their game consoles :P that would get them active! whether it be rage or looking for an alternative form of activity/entertainment that'll get them off their butts XD | |
My draft proposal: Insert cd into Xbox | |
OK then. I'll just make an magnum opus that explores humanity's need for violence and how people can rise above it-- Oh. You want them to be that kind of healthy. Sigh...I'll just make a mario clone with the enemies as burgers. | |
Maybe instead of the healthy game crap she can slap some sense into her husband? Hint: Government controlled health care isn't going to happen. | |
I'm so seeing tons of joke submissions.
I do that all the time and I'm alright. | |
Isnt this why the Wii was made? You know.. games like WiiFIT. No? Im wrong? Clearly thats played for the fun. This just seems like a waste of time and money for any developer, it'll probably end up like those Burger King 360 games you could get when the Xbox 360 came out. | |
Ahahahahahaha I'm always suspicious of anyone preferring 'certain' features? | |
No, see, what they want is electronic media that encourage, through sitting down in front of a monitor, active, healthy living. Not actually having kids be active and healthy. But encouraging it. Seeing as Captain Zynga is one of the judges, I'm assuming the winner will be full of pop-ups saying, "Give a salad to three of your friends to get a free artichoke!" | |
Wii Sports and it's spinoffs/addons. THat's honestly all there is ATM. | |
Well I mean that makes a hell of alot more sense. Thank you for enlightening me. Perhaps they came make a game where you play as a piece of Brocolli. He's a cop, who doesnt play by the rules. And he's out to kill them sunnova bitches that call themselves "Healthy Snacks". He'll be the biggest thing since Master Chief. | |
He shoots first, asks questions later. *BLAM BLAM BLAM* What was that, DIET soda? You lying motherf***er! TELL THE TRUTH! | |
He's got his demons too, he's addicted to Cheese and Butter. | |
He keeps a can of spray cheese by his nightstand. Eventually, he gets caught taking a huff and is kicked off the force. Thus beginning a lengthy segment of personal discovery and redemption. | |
That was uncalled for. She wants to help children and you tell her to shut up. Are you Rush Limbaugh? | |
Yeah good luck with that Michelle Obama, if a game tells me to exercise more the first thing I'd do is throw it out the window. No game tells me what to do. Now if you'll excuse I need to go to a russian airport. | |
Well, I don't think this will make a big differance, and really I think someone should seriously be telling Mrs. Obama off. Right now there are two big things to consider: #1: Kids generally don't go outside to play because they can't. Simply put our society requires two incomes at the moment, you don't have a "homemaker" parent anymore. This means there is nobody to supervise children for trips to a playground or whatever. Our society also suffers greatly for being extremely permissive and liberal in some respecs, and one of those prices we pay is society being too dangerous for children to roam neighborhoods unattended. Assuming of course local laws haven't been passed prohibiting such outright (so the neighbors won't have kids roaming their yards). The days of yor with unlocked doors, and kids being able to frolic in the suburbs with wagons and scooters and whatever else are basically gone. Today we can't do anything about a sexual deviant until he actually molests a child and gets caught. Welcome to the day and age of "Latchkey kids" who might come home to an empty home as young as five or six, and lock themselves in an apartment waiting for mommy and daddy to get home (providing they ever do). The point is that none of these things are easy issues to address, but if you want to have kids playing outside more actively, you need to fix society which means you might have to make unpleasant desicians. Ironically I think politicians like the Obamas are part of the problem as they generally support the kinds of policies that have perpetuated these problems. This of course goes well beyond the scope of this discussion. #2: Kids don't buy their own food. You can spam them with healthy eating all you want, but the problem isn't so much kids existing off of unhealthy snack fare, typically most don't. Rather it's because your typical family goes to the grocery store and for financial reasons gets the cheapest version of whatever they are after that they can. Sure, you can talk cr@p all you want about reading ingrediants, and health information, but the bottom line is that most people can't afford to buy premium health food, and the more expensive brands. Some can, but most can't. Your typical shopper looks at the price, and maybe the weight, as their primary concern (ie the overall value). The result is that while admittedly kids AREN'T getting as much exercise as they might otherwise be getting (and would have in earlier eras), a lot of the weight and health problems comes from the fact that while mom and dad make them eat their vegetables and things they might not want, they are also eating whatever meat was on sale that week (and was probably on sale due to being unusually fatty or whatever), whatever other products were cheapest, and their snacks are probably as often or not selected by a similar criteria. This is called "reality". | |
If only I had the power to make this game. Dear lord this is GOLD! | |
most teaching games suck magerly. so perhaps only letting children play games some times and making them take up sports would be a better thing to do | |
That would surely get some form of approval somewhere... If she wants game which are heathy go look at the Wii! In fact, look at what comes with it! | |
*Take out CD* Hm, wait. That was what was NOT supposed to happen. Ooops. | |
She is going to be looking for a really long time. That's all I can say. | |
wii is good enough | |
if you like crappy graphics mixed with seizures.. | |
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Michelle Obama Looking for Games that Promote Healthy Children
First Lady Michelle Obama is hosting a competition to submit games that will encourage children to lead healthier, more active lives.
Apps for Healthy Kids is a program spearheaded by the First Lady that begins accepting submissions today. There are two categories, tools and games, and and a combined reward of $40,000 to the top submissions. The White House has assembled a team of judges including Entertainment Software Association President Michael Gallagher, LucasArts Engineer Eric Johnson, Zynga's Mark Pincus and Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak to determine the winners of the competition, which will end on July 14.
The submissions must all conform to the USDA Nutritional Dataset to qualify, and need to function on "any software platform broadly available to the public." The top applications in each category will earn $10,000, and the public choice of each category will earn $4,500.
Apps for Healthy Kids has offered a number of suggestions for content material such as "teaching kids to eat more whole grains" and "being more physically active," but so long as the application falls within the healthy lifestyle criteria it is acceptable. The submission deadline is June 30, after which the judging will begin. It's good to see the White House taking such a positive approach to gaming and gaming's potential. It'll be interesting to see what people come up with over the next few months.
Source: GamePolitics
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