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You've got to focus to play a video game which makes it a great platform for raising social awareness
打电游需要专心，它是一个帮助人们提高社会意识的重要平台，
and that's what the Egyptian startup Castling Studios is trying to do.
埃及新兴电游公司“卡斯特拉电游”正做着这样的尝试。
One of its games called Bara'a or innocence was created to educate people about female genital mutilation.
一个叫“清白”的游戏是教育人们关于女性割礼的。
It targets young girls in villages and in the game, the player helps a girl escape a hospital and break walls representing society's misconceptions.
它的受众为乡下女孩，在游戏中玩家帮助女孩逃离医院，并打破了代表社会错误认识的城墙。
The eight company founders who all study game development at Cairo's Information Technology Institute
八名公司创始人来自开罗信息技术研究院，专业为游戏开发，
say they bring local sensibility to their work.
他们称这些游戏是将本地人的情感融入其中。
We are trying to offer something new, because when the West develops games,
我们尝试提供新的东西，因为当西方人开发电脑游戏时，
even on the Middle East or the Egyptian culture, they do so from their own perspective.
甚至在中东或埃及本土文化中，他们是从自己的角度来开发的。
But when we develop the games, we make them better because we know more about the experiences we've lived through
但是当我们开发游戏时，我们使它们变得更好，因为我们对我们所经历的有更多的了解。
and continue to see the wrong practices happening and we know what the right things are.
错误的例子一直在发生，而我们知道什么是正确的。
Another game created by the company called "Hire Me, Thank You" helps manual workers learn communication skills for interviews.
公司出品的另一款游戏叫做“雇用我吧，谢谢”，帮助体力工作者学习面试的沟通技巧。
The story revolves around what someone should be doing before leaving for work and user response has been positive.
游戏是关于人们在找工作前应该做些什么，用户的反响是积极的。
When people see it, they are amazed that we are creating games addressing these issues and they are really entertained by the game itself.
当人们看到时，他们惊讶地发现这些游戏其实是在解决问题，这款游戏本身也吸引了他们。
They say it is fun and that they are waiting to see how the game ends and solves the issue.
他们说这很有趣，他们正等着看游戏如何结束并解决所有问题。
The developers have created more than seven games, most still in the prototype phase. They'll eventually be released for free.
游戏开发数量超过了七个，多数还处在初样阶段，但最终会免费提供给玩家。
I'm Faith Lapidus, VOA News.
VOA新闻，我是法斯·拉皮德斯。
