Young Adults

In the game Let’s Yoga, players are instructed to do yoga and incorporate the exercise into their normal routines. This game for the Nintendo DS includes tips and techniques for postures, breathing, and poses that aim to help players better deal with stressors and find more pleasure in life.

My Student Body is an online game that focuses on issues that many college students face including drug and alcohol abuse, stress, and sexual health. The game provides information about getting help.

Personal Trainer: Cooking is an instructional cooking game for the Nintendo DS intended to teach players how to make nutritious and healthy meals. The game is easy to use and gives step-by-step instructions to make cooking simple and easy. Players can choose from numerous recipes to select meals.

In the game Positive or Not, players must determine whether a person is HIV-positive based on a picture and few descriptors. After the player takes a guess, they are told whether or not the person in the picture is HIV-positive. If the person was positive, they tell a story about how they found out. If they were negative, players receive advice about how to stay protected from the infection. This free, online game was developed by MTV Networks on Campus.

This free, downloadable educational game focuses on important issues faced by many young individuals during their high school and college years. The game allows players to experience and manipulate scenarios to help them prepare for similar situations that occur in the real world including peer pressure, drugs, stress, anger, and establishing new friendships.

Supershagland is an adventure game created for World's AIDS Day that seeks to educate and raise awareness about the HIV/AIDS virus. The game emphasizes the importance of condom use and other safe ways to avoid contracting the disease. Players navigate through the adventure while collecting items that can be used to help prevent and reduce the spread of the HIV/AIDS virus. This game is not currently available.

This weight loss game for the Nintendo DS intends to teach players how to adopt and maintain healthier eating habits and get ample amounts of daily physical activity. The game includes a pedometer to keep track of progress and allows players to come up with a program that fits their needs and lifestyles.

Choices: What Would I Do? is a collection of three free, online games that present real-life scenarios to players. In The Crush, "You finally strike up a conversation with Darren, the hot guy in your English class. He invites you to meet up with him and his friends at a dance party on Friday night." Players must make decisions that affect the outcome of the situation and will witness the positive or negative consequences of their decisions.

In Interactive Nights Out 1, players assume the role of a lead character and make choices regarding situations that many young adults face in the real world. Players navigate through the game making decisions about sex, drugs, and alcohol and then observe the consequences of their choices. This is a PC game.

The Puzzability Sampler is a free, downloadable collection of puzzles, activities, and exercises designed to stimulate the mind and increase cognitive capability. Players can choose from dozens of games the whole family can enjoy.