Links about computer games, football and other sports
Sport and Games Links
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Computer games etc
Background information, organisations and game descriptions
* BBC Radio 4 article on South Korea's obsession with e-sport and the social problems it can cause:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/crossing_continents/7167890.stm
* Education Arcade: http://www.educationarcade.org/
* Elearning Guild: www.elearningguild.com/
* Future Lab paper on using off the shelf games for educational purposes: http://archive.futurelab.org.uk/projects/teaching-with-games/
* Games for Health: www.gamesforhealth.org/
* Games to encourage collaboration skills with young people: www.viktoria.se/fal/projects/collgames/
* Global warming games: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_warming_game
* Hungry planet nutrition game for children: www.commonsensemedia.org/game-reviews/Hungry-Red-Planet.html
* Interactive Digital Out of Home Media i.e. Wii sports games on a huge out door screen on a lorry for hire: www.digiadvans.com/index.php
* Leicester Teenage Pregnancy Partnership game: http://thensmc.com/news-and-events/blog/753.html
* Marc Prensky, computer game and learning writer: www.marcprensky.com/ and http://www.twitchspeed.com/
* Media Trust and ICT Hub documents on social uses of new media etc. e.g. Save the Children's use of Second Life to raise money with virtual Yaks: www.icthub.org.uk/publications/New_media_case_studies.pdf and www.icthub.org.uk/research/NewMediaCaseStudies2008.pdf
* Persuasive Games: www.persuasivegames.com/
* Second Life, virtual world website with possible potential for health education: http://secondlife.com/businesseducation/ (Under-18s and projects catering for this age group could try http://teen.secondlife.com/)
* Serious Games website: www.seriousgamessource.com/
* SimHealth was a 1994 game simulating choices in US health policy. For more details go to www.mcli.dist.maricopa.edu/proj/sw/games/simhealth.html
* Simulearn's site has games on leadership that maybe useful for health managers: http://www.simulearn.net/
* Social Impact Games website: http://www.socialimpactgames.com/
* Water Cooler website on serious games: www.watercoolergames.org/archives/cat_health_medicine_games.shtml
Games to play now
The below list is not a recommendation of good practice but is simply links to existing sites.
Alcohol
* Not a game but still fun, a test to see the effects of alcohol: www.bbc.co.uk/newsbeat/12254668
Fire safety
* Five different games connected with fire safety: www.clevelandfire.gov.uk/red-zone/
Food
* Fatworld obesity game: www.fatworld.org/
* Food force game about foreign food aid: www.food-force.com/
* The Good Food Fight shows how to use an email game to attract people to a health site: www.thegoodfoodfight.com/
* Game about the fast food industry: www.mcvideogame.com/
Mental health
* Earthquake in Zipland demo of game about divorce for children: www.ziplandinteractive.com/download-free-demo/
* Mah Jong Quest 2 is a free game with adverts. It is the traditional matching game. Although it may increase problem solving skills I only highlight it because it has some interesting 'meaningful' quotes after each section. It may be a fun game to play at the end of a personal, social and health education lession for a few pupils. There are two other games in the series. I don't know if they have quotes or not. For this version go to www.iwin.com/games/mah-jong-quest-ii
* Reach Out! question and answer style game about mental health: http://roc.reachout.com.au/flash/index.html
Men's issues
* This is a site about men using public toilets. (Not the one mentioned in the free standing document on computer games.) It might be useful to raise discussions around how men feel round other men, homophobia or generally being a man: www.boreme.com/boreme/funny-2005/toilet-tactics-p1.php
Research and evaluation
* Not a game but a great example of how to use computer graphic animations to make a questionnaire almost as fun: www.nfmmap.org/profiler/
Safety
* Department of Transport activities for primary school children: www.dft.gov.uk/think/education/early-years-and-primary/
Sex
* Brook Advisory Centres sexual health games: www.brook.org.uk/content/M1_game.asp
* Just Showt free sexual health game: www.justshowt.com/funstuff/stiattack/default.htm and www.justshowt.com/funstuff/boardgame/boardgame.html
* Red Knob sex education games: www.theredknob.co.uk/index.php/fun/
Smoking
* Cigarette Killer:click here
* Hallmark have an e-card that can be sent to smokers who are trying to quit: http://hmuk.hallmark.be/ecardsCaption.aspx?cat=595
Specific conditions etc
* The Great Ormond Street Hospital for children, in the UK, has a related site that contains games: www.getwellfriends.co.uk/games.php
* Hallmark have an e-card that can be sent to women who are pregnant: http://hmuk.hallmark.be/ecardsCaption.aspx?cat=585 or have had a baby: http://hmuk.hallmark.be/ecardsCaption.aspx?cat=590 On the same site are also get well e-cards. On the sister
* Mastermind type game for people with MS:
www.webmd.com/multiple-sclerosis/ms-patterns-puzzler-game
* simHEALTH produce a range of corporate health and medical games some of which are at: www.simhealth.com/
Wider determinants
* Demgames is all about the democratic process in the wider determinants of health and other issues: www.demgames.org/
* Fatworld obesity game: www.fatworld.org/
* Food force game about foreign food aid: www.food-force.com/
* Game about the fast food industry: www.mcvideogame.com/
* Game about interlinked policy in medical malpractice, economic development, participation and education: www.takebackillinoisgame.com/play.aspx#Escena_1
* Simhealth game about health policy for 1996 presidential election: http://free-game-downloads.mosw.com/abandonware/pc/simulations/games_s/simhealth.html
* Sprout Adventure: The website about this game allows you to play a taster of it for quite a while. It can be used to introduce children to a range of topics including physical and mental aspects of health from both a lifestyle and wider determinants perspective, problem solving, cause and effect and ethical issues such as who should be prioritised those in need or those creating wealth or a better society? I doubt if these issues were in the game developers' minds when they wrote it, but it is engrossing and educational: www.sproutsadventure.com/webgame.html
* Traces of Hope, British Red Cross refugee game: http://tracesofhope.com/
* The Transaid Challenge game about health workers delivering medical supplies in the
* Yoobot vs Yoonot, British Heart Foundation nutrition and physical activity game: http://www.yoobot.co.uk/
Football and sport
* Asian Football Network (in the UK): www.asianfootballnetwork.org.uk/about-us/
* Balls without Borders international play therapy project: www.ballswithoutborders.com/cgi-bin/index.cgi?start.tmpl
* The Commonwealth War Graves Commission website is a great example of how to use football for a non-sporting purpose: www.cwgc.org/glorydays/flash.html
* Cultural Olympiad (The 2012 London Olympics includes relevant cultural events before and during the games): www.london2012.com/get-involved/cultural-olympiad/index.php
* Football as an example of spurious health research: www.bmj.com/cgi/content/full/325/7377/1378/b
* Football Beyond Borders international social change project: www.footballbeyondborders.org/
* Football Foundation community grant scheme: http://www.footballfoundation.org.uk/apply/community-grants/community-grant-over-9k/
* Homeless World Cup: www.homelessworldcup.org/
* House of Commons on role models: http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm200304/cmselect/cmcumeds/499/49908.htm
* It's a Goal! football and mental health franchise: www.itsagoal.org.uk/
* Kickstart! health project aimed at fathers: www.kickstartdads.blogspot.com/
* Know Yer Balls: www.knowyerballs.co.uk/
* Laureus Sport for Good Foundation: www.laureus.com/foundation
* Living Places, stronger communities through culture and sport:
http://living-places.org.uk/
* Olympic ambush marketing: www.themarketer.co.uk/articles/features/ambush-marketing-and-the-law/?utm_source=%20GEIHE2F&utm_medium=email&utm_term=Olympics,%20ambush%20marketing,%20Scottish%20Widows,%20Wallace%20&%20Gromit&utm_campaign=MB4309
* Newcastle United Foundation: www.nufc.co.uk/page/ProgrammesIndex
* Philosophy Football: www.philosophyfootball.com/
* St.Pauli football club in Germany, where the fans are as concerned with the values of the club as results: www.guardian.co.uk/travel/video/2011/mar/16/st-pauli-socialist-football-hamburg-video
* Street League uses the power of football to get the disadvantaged into work or training, as well as dealing with health education: www.streetleague.co.uk/index.php
* University of Ballarat report on role models:
http://fulltext.ausport.gov.au/fulltext/2002/vic/Role_Model.pdf
* Volunteering and the London Olympics: www.volunteering.org.uk/WhatWeDo/Projects+and+initiatives/Games+inspired/Create+Games+inspired+volunteering+opportunities
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