Glupod Game Lets Players Help People

Posted on March 12, 2008

Something, Inc. has developed a game called Glupod that allows players to "change the real world." The game has a charitable aspect to it. Glupod players can earn glucs and then share them with needy people or contribue them to green causes. Glupod will debut on May 30th according to a Something Inc. statement.

A small group of socially conscious people from three continents have developed an online game designed to help the environment and fight poverty in the real world by turning game rewards into real-life help for social and environmental causes.
The game, called Glupod, will debut worldwide on May 30. It's the brainchild of Ioannis Tsiokos of Athens and a small band of colleagues at Something, Inc. who collaborate online from Greece, India, the United States and the United Kingdom.
Glupod players will be able to provide food for a starving child in Africa, protection for a whale species going extinct or offset carbon emissions and help fight global warming - all by playing Glupod, the first Video Game to deliver direct emotional fulfillment to the player.
In a nutshell, Glupod gives gamers a variety of real-world causes to choose from and enables them to convert their in-game winnings into actual help for that cause.

Glupod is more than gaming according to Something, Inc. Ioannis, managing director and co-founder of Something Inc., says in a statement, "A Glupod gamer has a real purpose and a human mission. Glupod is more than a game. It's a simple, fun way to do good that anyone with a computer and access to the Internet can participate in.

The video below introduces you to Weemie and explains the charitable concept behind Glupod.