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Spent is a Web-based game about the experience of poverty developed by McKinnon, a Durham based ad agency. Its primary high-level instructional goal is to instill a sense of empathy towards the impoverished in the player.

SPENT is an online simulation game that helps students understand the challenges faced by people living in poverty. In this game, students are given a limited budget and asked to make decisions about how to spend it- without any access to credit cards.

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The player, a single parent in poverty, is given $1,000 to live on for one month; they must then select employment, each of which pays minimum wage. The goal is to end the month with some money left over.

The player is given $1,000 to survive for one month. Throughout the game's one-month period, the player faces dilemmas which reveal how quickly changes in employment, housing, medical costs and other expenses can have disastrous consequences for normal people.

The player is given $1,000 to survive for one month. Throughout the game's one-month period, the player faces dilemmas which reveal how quickly changes in employment, housing, medical costs and other expenses can have disastrous consequences for normal people.

SPENT is an online simulation game that helps students understand the challenges faced by people living in poverty. In this game, students are given a limited budget and asked to make decisions about how to spend it- without any access to credit cards.

The fact that it's a constant stream of financial hardships means it's a bit less of an accurate simulation and more of a string of choices with no real "right" or even very positive outcome.