Hungry? Try Some Snack Dash.

The School Food Trust is an organization whose aim is to improve the quality of school food and promote the education and health of school children. The most exciting part of the website is an advergame called Snack Dash. If you've every played Sonic the Hedgehog for Sega Genesis then this game will seem very familiar. The game is played almost identically to Sonic except for a few differences. The object of the game is to make your way through a school and collect as many healthy snacks (specifically green apples, carrots, and bottled water) as you can well keeping up enough momentum to get through the school as fast as possible. Along the way the player runs by "baddies" including a badass with an ice cream cone, a little girl with a lollipop, and what appears to be a snack machine from hell. The player also comes across junk food along the way. The junk food literally makes the player fat and slow. To become "healthy" again the character has to do pushups.

I'm am thoroughly impressed with this games educational value as well as its relevance to its product. The School Food Trust takes every opportunity within the game to promote its cause. The game promotes healthy food by having point awarded to the player for collecting fruit, vegetables, and bottled water. The game also conveys the message that junk food is bad and makes you fat and slow.

Overall, I enjoyed and appreciated this advergame... or should I say "edugame." I was however disappointed that after only two levels the game ended. I would have liked to have seen a few more levels. The two levels are quite short and easy. A few more would not only be way more fun, but players of the game would stay on the School Food Trust website for longer.