Looking for a diversion? Hmm.how can a piggy bank on a jet ski teach me about budgeting, debt and the search for happiness?
According to CNET:
In short, it's important to learn how to be financially responsible. This is the message that mtvU, MTV's 24-hour college network, wants you get via an online flash game called "DebtSki". The game is is part of mtvU's and the Peter G. Peterson Foundation's Indebted campaign, an ongoing effort to encourage students to help stop the fiscal crisis in the United States.
It's a very simple Mario-like kind of game, where you maneuver the game character Piggy Banks through a series of obstacles, while trying to collect coins and then making decisions to spend those coins on items.
There are things you need to collect to win the game; other items are discretionary, which could bring you happiness but could potentially put you in debt. You are challenged to create a balance among happiness, debt, and responsibilities.
The game is the realization of a concept by Brian Haveri, a graduate from Lehigh University and the winner of the Indebted Digital Challenge, which called on young people nationwide to submit a creative idea for a video game that would raise awareness of the dangers of financial irresponsibility.
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