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Free Shaun the Sheep game launches in Bristol
Bristol 2015 has teamed up with Aardman Animations to create a new free game, Sustainable Shaun.
Similar to the dangerously addictive game Bejeweled, players have to match connecting symbols. The themes of the game tie in with the Bristol Green Capital themes: food, nature, energy, transport and resources; and aims to get children thinking about green issues.
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“The meaning of the game is to help people become more sustainable by recycling their junk instead of just throwing it away – to make the environment better and the animals happier,” explains 10-year old Isla Foster from Air Balloon Hill Primary School.
Isla has been testing the new game all week along with students from Parson Street primary school and Victoria Park Primary school.
She continues: “Because it’s fun, kids want to play the game. And when they realise how fun it can be to recycle, they can persuade their parents to do it with them.”
Sustainable Shaun will be rolled out to every Bristol primary school, and later, nationally, but for now the game is free for anyone to play on www.sustainableshaun.com.
The red trousers were in attendance for the launch at Bristol 2015 Lab on Thursday morning, along with members from Aardman and the ‘digital champion children’ who took part in the game testing before launch, and gave demonstrations of how to play.
Mayor George Ferguson said: “The European Green Capital commissioner said, ‘It goes to the city with a sense of fun’ – and here we are demonstrating that.
“Sustainable Shaun is about: How can we tell other people about what fun it is, and how good it is, and how it leads to a better life?
“Because some people think all this environmental thing is making sacrifices, it’s not it’s about doing things in a much more sensible and worthwhile way.
“So anybody that ever says to you that Green Capital is not doing enough, I don’t believe it could do more than give people the ideas that spread right across the country and beyond.”
The Bristol 2015 Lab on Harbourside has been transformed into a 3D version of Sustainable Shaun, with four game stations and Shaun-themed giveaways for the duration of the summer holidays. The Sustainable Shaun lab takeover opens officially from July 17 – August 30, with a public preview all weekend on July 11-12.
Play Sustainble Shaun online at www.sustainableshaun.com