Debt Ski Game Created For mtvU's Indebted.com

[Debt Ski]

Hello,

We just released a game called Debt Ski for mtvU's Indebted.com, which teaches young people about debt management and how national debt effects their everyday lives.

The game features a pig on a jet ski and you must collect enough coins to pay for your desired lifestyle. You can also pick-up items that increase your happiness, but also cost money. The goal of the game is to reach a maximum happiness level while saving as much money as possible.

The game also features a great soundtrack and has tracks from popular MTV artists like All-American Rejects.

Check it out if you get a chance and we'd love to hear feedback from everyone on the forum.

http://www.indebted.com/the-game/debtski/

[AC]

Like the game :)

[Kevin Corti]

Cute little game that is well produced, but I utterly fail to see how this will effect behavioural or attitudinal change. I suppose you can argue it raises awareness of issues through stealth perhaps?? I think most people that use it (kids?) will ask "whats all this financial stuff at the end for" and go play somehting else instead.

A Tsunami wave or a T-shirt floating to the floor are merely game power ups or points-eaters....I don't see them invoking a difficult moral choice that goes to the heart of consumerism and financial health in this context.

Sorry.

[AlexF]

Good work guys! This game called Debt Ski for mtvU's Indebted.com, teaches young people about debt management and how national debt affects our everyday lives. I will try this game! In relation to public awareness, the website known as www.pueblo.gsa.gov is destined to become a popular. (It already is, but it should get even bigger.) Do you know why? It is because of its contents, the www.pueblo.gsa.gov's resources are job listings, teaching materials, and a host of other things. It's free, and run by the Federal Citizen Information Center – no personal loans required. There's even a section called My Money, which is dedicated to financial education, the importance of which in a recession cannot be understated. The website also links to the Dear Abby advice column. It's good to know that a person in need can check out a website like www.pueblo.gsa.gov without needing short-term loans to find out valuable information.
Link to read: http://personalmoneystore.com/moneyblog/2009/05/08/wwwpueblogsagov-...

[John Wilmot]

Alex....how can you make a statement like: "This game....teaches young people about debt management and how national debt affects our everyday lives" and then follow it up with "I will try this game"?? How can you form a judgement before you have even played it? That is not helpful to the constructive debate we're truing to have here.

This community is about fostering the positive growth of what can be a massively beneficial and sizeable market sector that affects positive change in many walks of life. Much of what we create, show and say can be wrong/challenged but please try an stay on topic....promoting finance web sites is best done on other portals....or go set up a NING site about personal finance.

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[Nataly Arlingston]

Great! I've ben looking for such a game for a long time. Sometimes I like to play games but I also like when I learn something from them. And I believe with this game will satisfy my wish. Well, you know that it is wrong when people say that games are bad or that games are evil. I've read a book about the century of games (found it at the pdf search engine http://pdf.rapid4me.com ), so people need to feel such emotions which the games give them. Ealier people watched gldiator fights, but now peole can just play a computer game and get the same portion of adrenalin.