Homeless: It’s No Game

Homeless: It’s No Game was created for my research into the effectiveness of persuasive games that I am undertaking at the School of Interactive Arts and Technology at Simon Fraser University (you can find out more information about my research on my other site — terrylavender.ca). The game is also intended to raise awareness of the situation faced by the homeless. In 2007 it won the Editor’s Choice Best Videogame in Vancouver award from the Georgia Straight newspaper.

Suggestions are welcome! If you’re interested in adapting it to your own purposes or improving the code, there’s a link to the Flash source code below.* I’d be interested to know how you’ve used it, so contact me at info@wetcoastgames.ca.

Play the game

Download source code (zipped file)

*Homeless: It’s No Game by Wetcoast Games is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License.