Tropical America

SDG 4: Quality EducationSDG 9: Industry, innovation and infrastructure
  • Year: 2003
  • Award: World Summit Award
  • Category: Entertainment & Lifestyle
  • Producer: OnRamp Arts
  • Country: United States of America
  • URL: http://www.tropicalamerica.com/

Exploring history can be a real adventure in the virtual world. Tropical America is an online game with educational focus on the history of Latin America and human rights aspects. Users travel through centuries of history in the role of a lone survivor of the 1981 El Mozote massacre in El Salvador. They can search for evidence of the incidents and communicate their findings via media devices to the world. The educational game focuses on preserving a rich culture and history, utilizing the art of language, sound, graphics and interactive multimedia.