Food Force is a simulation game from the United Nations' World Food Programme. Aimed at kids, it leads the player through various steps in assembling relief for a disaster-hit nation. The series of minigames, exercises, and inserted footage combine to form a linear narrative of aid.
All sorts of ideologies and arguments in play, of course, from the steady pro-WFP drumbeat to a weird imbalance between collective action and the player's lone ego:
(thanks to Ladi and Linda Rogers)
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