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# Singapore Teens Create Anti-Drug Game
- URL: https://www.killscreen.com/singaporeteenscreateantidruggame/
- Published: 2011-07-11T21:07:00.000Z
- Updated: 2015-11-17T15:52:43.000Z
- Description: If you’re of a certain age, you likely recall the program D.A.R.E., an attempt at teaching school-aged children the dangers of drug use and abuse. I remember the black t-shirt with red lettering, but little else. Perhaps such lessons are taught more effectively through interactive play. Two students
- Author: Kill Screen Staff
- Tags: News, #wp, #wp-post, #Import 2024-07-26 09:39

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If you’re of a certain age, you likely recall the program [D.A.R.E.](http://www.dare.com/home/default.asp?ref=killscreen.com), an attempt at teaching school-aged children the dangers of drug use and abuse. I remember the black t-shirt with red lettering, but little else.

Perhaps such lessons are taught more effectively through interactive play. Two students at the Singapore Polytechnic Design School created a game called *The Right Choice*, where you explore a family member’s room and talk to their friends in order to find out whether they’re using drugs.

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> Developed by two 19-year-old students from Singapore Polytechnic’s Design School, Miss Theresa Cheong and Miss Gillian Tan, The Right Choice is a Flash-based game which aims to educate youth on the consequences of drug abuse.  
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> The game was inspired by the pair’s love for Japanese visual novels – interactive games with mostly static graphics and a storyline.  
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> Said Miss Tan: “In real life, you can’t go back and make your choices all over again.”  
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> The Right Choice won the first prize in the Flash Games Competition: Games Against Drug Abuse, which was part of this year’s Anti-Drug Abuse Campaign, held at Toa Payoh HDB Hub Mall on Sunday.

  
Would the lessons of D.A.R.E. sink in more if given the adventure game treatment? I know I wouldn’t inhale if the consequences were portrayed [like this](http://killscreendaily.com/articles/review-999-nine-hours-nine-persons-nine-doors?ref=killscreen.com). Find out for yourself when *The Right Choice*, along with the 2nd and 3rd place winners, are released online later this year.

*\-Jon Irwin*

  
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