(ETX Studio) – The National Cancer Institute is launching the Cancer Fighter video game to educate children about preventable cancers. Your mission, if you accept it, is to adopt as many healthy habits as possible, materialized in the form of bonuses, to free adults bewitched by a noxious spirit.
What better way than video games to reach children and adolescents? In many areas, brands are now using them to present their new products and reach an ever wider audience, so why not use them to inform younger people about risky behaviors to avoid in order to protect themselves from certain diseases?
Today, the National Cancer Institute uses this means of communication to raise awareness among 10-12 year olds about preventable cancers. The “Cancer Fighter” video game aims, in a fun and educational way, to inform them about the risk behaviors responsible for more than 40% of preventable cancers, such as lack of physical activity and sedentary lifestyle, poor diet, consumption. tobacco, or exposure to the sun.
“The universe developed in Cancer Fighter makes it possible to convey clearly understandable messages in an educational format and to give the keys to act. (…) This game allows to highlight practical advice and good habits to adopt on a daily basis for promote protective behavior “, explains the Institute in a press release.
Adult lives in danger
A college serves as the backdrop for this video game in which adults have been spellbound by a harmful spirit that seeks to put their lives in danger. As a result, the sports teacher is amorphous, the chef swears by junk food, and teenagers smoke in front of the college while exposing themselves unprotected to the sun. The hero is given a mission: to save the adults by catching as many bonuses as possible and avoiding penalties. The latter being represented by healthy habits and risky behaviors, respectively.
In the gym, it is therefore better to head for sneakers and balls than to screens and armchairs, while green vegetables and fish will allow you to increase your score in the canteen, unlike sweets and hamburgers. The whole being punctuated by information bubbles intended to inform the youngest about the dangers – or the benefits – of all of these elements.
The video game is accessible on Cancer-fighter.fr, but children and adolescents can also learn about cancer prevention at Preventionenfant.e-cancer.fr.
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