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Games for Health Competition October 20, 2006 - by Ian Bogost Games for Health has announced a competition to design health-related games. They have three categories, one for a student treatment/storyboard ($5k prize), one for an organization storyboard/treatment ($5k prize), and one for an open prototype/game ($20k prize). Deadline is April 1, 2007 and winners will be announced in June 2007. There are a number of conference calls to get more information; find them on the contest site. Comment from Pipoca on November 10, 2006
Amazon villagers witnessed lady Piassi, the Baroness of Tattingstone, feeding and healing a strange group of indians never seen in the forest before, who floated on the air and glittered as gold. Comment from soma.sbn.bz on March 15, 2007
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