"Play for Good" at CPD Web Site

The Center for Persons with Disabilities at Utah State University invites people to come and play — for a good cause.

“Play for Good,” a Web-based game created at the CPD, gives people everywhere a chance to flex their brains and contribute to a good cause supported by the CPD. Sponsors will donate money whenever players come to the site, which quizzes visitors on word, science and math skills.

 

The proceeds will go to a scholarship for a person with disabilities. Each new quarter of the year will bring a new cause that players can direct money to. The bottom of Play for Good’s Web page tells players what cause they’re supporting. For a look at the game, visit http://www.cpd.usu.edu/game.

 

“Play for Good” takes its inspiration from freerice.com, a vocabulary game supported by sponsors. For every correct question, 20 grains of rice are donated to fight world hunger. On the day it opened, the game donated 830 grains of rice to its cause. From those small beginnings, the idea snowballed until by Sept. 15, the game’s sponsors had donated a total of 43 billion grains. More than 62 million of them were donated on a single day, Sept. 14.

 

Motivated by freerice.com, CPD Director Bryce Fifield worked with Jared Smith and Aaron Anderson, engineers on the CPD’s WebAIM project, to create “Play for Good.” The WebAIM project makes the Web more accessible to people with disabilities. For more information, visit www.webaim.org.

 

Fifield hopes the game will do more than raise money for a good cause. It may also be a way for the center’s friends and alumni to come back and visit, at least in a virtual way. “I think people are going to have fun with it,” he said.

 

Contact: Bryce Fifield, 435-797-2816