Knowledge Can Be Your Bulletproof Vest (2010)
Knowledge Can Be Your Bulletproof Vest
Knowledge Can Be Your Bulletproof Vest is a winning game from the 2010 Life.Love. Game Design Challenge. It is a game intentionally designed to increase awareness and provide educational information about teen dating violence.
The game was developed using Flash, a popular software development platform at the time. Unfortunately, support for Flash ended in 2020.
As a result of Flash no longer receiving support, this game has not been publicly available for years. We are very pleased to be able to share it with you once again.
About: Knowledge Can Be Your Bulletproof Vest
This is a casual puzzle game.
Letters make words.
Words make sentences.
Sentences make knowledge.
And knowledge can make this world a safer and better place.
The player's goal is to collect all of the letters in the scene. Control a stick figure using a keyboard to jump up and around the landscape, collecting letters and forming words.
Reveal the warning signs of an abusive relationship.
Challenge yourself to see how quickly you can find all ten warning signs!
Knowledge Can Be Your Bulletproof Vest was developed by Jean Hehn of Another Kind. Over the years, Another Kind went on to create several other winning games for the annual game design challenge including Finding Jane, Love in the Dumpster, Another Chance, Stuck in a Dark Place, and Last Shred of Reality.
The game was produced by Jennifer Ann's Group® and published by Life Love Publishing™.
Game Features: Knowledge Can Be Your Bulletproof Vest
- fun ASCII art and upbeat original music
- short gameplay allows time for play and discussion during a single class period
- highlights ten warning signs of an abusive relationship
A Special Thank You
We are very grateful to the communities and people who have worked hard to develop tools that make Flash content available again. It would be much harder for us to make our Flash games available in your web browser without the tremendous work by the many people responsible for ruffle and Flashpoint Archive.
Knowledge Can Be Your Bulletproof Vest is one of many prosocial games from the Gaming Against Violence™ program, an award-winning and evidence-based approach to violence prevention through video games. Gaming Against Violence is a program developed and offered by Jennifer Ann's Group®, a 501(c)(3) charity.
Donations supporting our work are fully deductible to the extent allowed by law.
EIN: 20-4618499
Development log
- Sharing a Flash Game from 2010 Belgium3 days ago
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I enjoyed the learning that went along with this platformer, but I kept wondering about the role of difficulty in the game potentially dissuading a player from getting the full educational experience. Still, an absolutely solid game that I appreciate for what it is. And props to those who keep old Flash games alive.
Thank you for playing the game and sharing your thoughts. It's wonderful that there are communities working to make these Flash games more accessible.
Would you please clarify about the difficulty. Does this refer to the difficulty in accessing or in locating some of the letters? Or to something else?
The developer has kindly offered to try restoring the leaderboard function so there might be an opportunity for tweaks to the game if needed. Thanks again for commenting!
Yes, that’s what I meant. I completed it just fine; I just imagined people with less experience probably not completing all the levels. The game has a difficulty curve that matches other indie platformers I’ve played, but with this thematic message I would have expected a gentler slope.
That said, if the target audience were folks who had played Super Mario before, then that can make sense.