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Spent (stylized SPENT) is an online game about poverty and homelessness.It was developed by advertising agency McKinney for their pro bono client Urban Ministries of Durham (UMD), a nonprofit organization in Durham, North Carolina that provides services to those in poverty. [1]
The challenge: You're a single parent who has lost your house and job and you've got $1,000 to your name. Play the game Spent. (Alamy)By BARBARA BEDWAY During an ice storm last month that kept U.S ...
The game is cited as a little-known forerunner of virtual-life simulator games to follow. [ 3 ] [ 4 ] One of the earliest dating sims , Tenshitachi no gogo , [ 5 ] was released for the 16-bit NEC PC-9801 computer that same year, [ 6 ] though dating sim elements can be found in Sega 's earlier Girl's Garden in 1984.
A simulation game is "a game that contains a mixture of skill, chance, and strategy to simulate an aspect of reality, such as a stock exchange".Similarly, Finnish author Virpi Ruohomäki states that "a simulation game combines the features of a game (competition, cooperation, rules, participants, roles) with those of a simulation (incorporation of critical features of reality).
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StarPower is an educational game for 12 to 35 players, designed by R. Garry Shirts for Simulation Training Systems [2] in 1969. [1] [3] The game combines chance and skill at trading to establish a score.
Farm life sims (also called farming sim or farm sim) are a subgenre of life simulation games which fuse social simulation, dating sim and farm simulation elements. The games generally feature a protagonist going out to a rural setting and taking upon a farm, oftentimes because of an inheritance from a deceased relative, or because of urban boredom.