Free game hopes to save gorillas
Campaigners hoping to preserve Rwanda’s endangered mountain gorilla are attempting to raise awareness of its plight by making a game simulating the lives of the animals free to mobile phone users.
The game Silverback, in which the player guides a gorilla through life in its natural habitat in northern Rwanda’s Virunga National Park, was first created in 2003.
Now it has been tweaked and re-released as a free download for web-enabled mobile phones, in the hope of highlighting the ongoing plight of the gorillas.
“We had to make sure the game was rooted in some kind of reality,” Ken Banks, who designed the game in association with campaign group Flora And Fauna International (FFI), told BBC World Service’s Digital Planet programme.
“We didn’t want a Donkey Kong style game, or a game where gorillas are chasing people or doing bad things.”
Source:http://news.bbc.co.uk
