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Former IDF officer promotes peace through video game
By Haaretz Staff and Channel 10
Tags: Impact Games, Israel 
Haaretz.com/Channel 10 daily feature for September 1, 2008.

Glorified violence, weapons and car chases are three elements you won't find in the products created by Impact Games, a company that creates video games that aim for a bit more social awareness.

Asi Buark, a former Israel Defense Forces intelligence official, founded Impact Games with Eric Brown, a fellow Carnegie Mellon University graduate, in an attempt to promote social and global change through interactive media.

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The company produces games that have players strategizing to solve current events and global crises. One game, called Darfur is Dying, puts players in the shoes of a refugee from the battered Sudanese region fighting for survival.


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