Arstechnica writes: "In recent weeks, roughly in tandem with the release of a certain video game, the issue of what content is okay in games has again been prominent in the media. In response to this controversy is another game called Cool School, where the emphasis is on nonviolent interaction.
Cool School focuses on taking players through a school where just about everything (desks, books, and other objects) are alive and have their own personality. Over the course of ten levels and over 50 different situations designed by Professor Melanie Killen and then-doctoral student Nancy Margie (both of the University of Maryland). The primary goal of the game is to teach students how to solve social conflict through skills like negotiation and cooperation. During the title's development, Killen and Margie were able to work with some talented members of the video game industry, including independent developer F.J. Lennon and animator Dave Warhol. "
Outside Xbox:
It may be school wasn't the most fun you ever had but count yourself lucky you didn't go to any of these videogame institutions where you're more likely to be carried off by horrors than graduate with honours.
