The game is based on a poor Indian woman who wants to collect money to help her sick daughter. She is faced with the loss job of her husband, she has to sell the fruits to the market, she has to face with different problem from the local police and hospitals...
There's no counting of times for playing it. I logged several times to play it, and "I"'m now still stay in India (because of lack of "money"...) Later, if the" money" is enough, "I" can also travel to other countries and experience and see how other countries look like.
The Half the sky is not only a game for NGO purpose, but also it can be used in language learning classroom. For the social skills, communication skills, and the learning of different cultures. For me, I'd like to use it specifically for vocabulary and oral class to increase the vocabulary and the communication skills. Because, there appears a lot of new worlds in the roles' dialogues, and their are different language in using in different places, to different people.
Students can play it not only in class, but also after class, and they will probably continue to play it because of the good design of the story . And also, because they can see different cultures from this game, I guess they will learn more deeply.
To assess the learning of vocabulary, and the communicative skills from the game, teachers can give some quiz about the vocabulary in the dialogues of the roles, besides, teacher can let students to role play to perform a dialogue for example between the main character and his husband, or between the doctor and the little daughter, etc.
I like your idea of having a "follow up" from the game by having students create their own dialogues for the characters. That would be a good way to utilize the new vocabulary they have seen in the game.
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