Amidst all the drama the PSN outage has on gamer-kind, there’s at least a light ray of “goodness” (whatever that means) in the world of video games and it comes in a form of a “mine detecting” game (no it’s not mine sweeper you smart asses).
The game, titled Underground UXO (Unexploded Ordinance) is a pc game that teaches kids on the dangers of land mines and how to detect and avoid them. This game was designed by professors at Michigan State University.
In the game, the player is guiding a dog to his food while avoiding dangers (in the form of land mines). Danger detectors include a skull with cross-bones sign or the more subtle traps such as barbed-wire fences. Whenever an explosion occurs, a mine specialist appears so that it can teach the player on how to avoid it and what he/she did wrong.
The game was designed so that it can be played on pcs and XO-1s and eventually onto smartphones and the web.
Underground UXO is currently piloted at Cambodia through the efforts of the Golden West Humanitarian Foundation.
