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Want to make a Safer Sex Video Game?
September 19, 2006 - by Ian Bogost

Health & Medicine Games, Social Games

IGDA Sex Sig chair and author of the just-released Sex in Games, Brenda Brathwaite points us to a call for proposals from the University of Connecticut for a Safer Sex Video Game. If you're interested, act fast: there's a mandatory bid meeting Wednesday Sept 20 at 2pm ET.

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