Urban Jungle is an educational computer game published in Croatia by Autoklub Rijeka and DIR. It is an educational traffic simulator aimed at kids in schools and all others that are about to drive a car. The game is free of violence and distributed as freeware . It is financed via the advergaming concept and with the help of government institutions. The game also promotes human welfare by giving space to the United Nations organizations UNICEF and UNODC for their campaigns. The game takes place in a virtual copy of the city center of the real city of Rijeka, the third largest city in Croatia. It is popular not only in its country of origin, but also in Bosnia and Herzegovina and Serbia.
The gameplay is simple: players have to deliver goods from a startpoint to an endpoint as fast as possible without making too many driving offences to gain money. This is an educational project and it should be reviewed as such—it's valuable for drivers' education and road safety. The game has been released as two titles: Urban Jungle (2005) and Urban Jungle Autoškola (2007).
The HZTK (Croatian Association of Technical Culture) has awarded its annual prize to the Urban Development team.
Also, the game has been given The Award For The Improvement Of Innovation by the HGK (Croatian Chamber Of Economy), the Annual City of Rijeka Prize for outstanding contribution to education and promotion of the City of Rijeka and The Croatian Autoclub Annual Award. The Office of the President of Croatia considered this as a great educational project and the Croatian President Stipe Mesić endorsed it.
Urban Jungle was developed by Urban Development Team and supported and promoted by Kreativni odjel. They welcome any non-profit, educational and human welfare organizations to join the project for the common good.
Famous quotes containing the words urban and/or jungle:
“And New York is the most beautiful city in the world? It is not far from it. No urban night is like the night there.... Squares after squares of flame, set up and cut into the aether. Here is our poetry, for we have pulled down the stars to our will.”
—Ezra Pound (1885–1972)
“We’re headed for collapse, if you want my opinion, Missy. I can see it in the fallin’ off of the quality of vagrants. There was a time you could find real good company in almost any jungle you’d pick, men who could talk, men who’d read a book now and then; and now, what do you find, a lot of dirty little guttersnipes no decent tramp would want to associate with.
Well, it’s been that way all through history.”
—John Dos Passos (1896–1970)