developer: Global Kids and GameLab
genre: awareness game
educational purpose: promote global awareness of poverty and engaged citizenship; the game focuses on the human right to education , having Haiti as a case study
target audience: everyone
H&H taxonomy class: Social awareness (Social responsibility, education, human rights, fighting poverty)
web page: http://ayiti.globalkids.org/game/
release date: 2006
platform: Online (PC/MAC)
Ayti: The Cost of Life is a socially conscious online game through which the players must manage a poor Haitian family of five over four years. The game’s perspective depicts poverty as an obstacle to education.
