Yale gets $4 million grant for HIV avoidance game
by Griffin McElroy 
on Feb 9th 2010 11:45AM
A group of pupils at Yale University recently received a grant from the (deep breath) Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, which will help fund
development of a video game which teaches youngsters how to avoid contracting HIV. The game,
Retro-Warriors, will be designed with a multicultural focus, so that it can be used to teach young people across the globe how to identify and eschew risky behaviors.
It's
not the first time someone's proposed such a project -- however, considering the aforementioned grant was for $3.9 million, it might be the most well-funded educational game of all time. We're fully expecting top-of-the-line graphics, a score by Hans Zimmer and some measure of involvement from Nolan North. For more information on what the game will
actually be like, check out
this CNS News article.
[Via
GamePolitics]
