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A youth welfare group has come up with a novel way to improve mental health in young people: an online video game. But players won't be gunning down hordes of alien scum a la Halo, or hooning around the track in a BMW M3, Need for Speed style. Rather, Reach Out Central, championed by the Inspire Foundation, is an online role-playing game in which players can "test-drive life and play it when and how you want to". Helping and befriending the computer-controlled characters that inhabit the online world is essential, and Inspire hopes skills developed in the game - and choices made there about friends, partying, work and life in general - will transfer to the real world. Inspire Foundation's director of programs, Jonathan Nicholas, said the program, launched today, targeted young people aged 16-25. Young males had been particularly difficult to engage using other communication vehicles, such as information sites.
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