The Guardian reports on SuperMe, a new online project from Channel 4’s consistently inventive education department, designed to reach disillusioned, depressed and unhappy teens. It helps them tackle problematic choices and difficult situations by building ‘emotional resilience’ in a game format that includes candid real-life video stories from various celebrities and sports stars.

SuperMe was produced by Somethin’ Else for Channel 4 in partnership with the creative studio Preloaded, and is based on principles of positive psychology. As well as videos, there are facts, quotes and probing questions to help players build life skills and deal more positively with bad experiences. Players earn points for connection, influence, wisdom and ability through a number of different games including Proximity, where players have to use teamwork to fly through a series of gates, and the navigation game Swerveball, which challenges the user to accurately recall how well they performed.

“The winning strategies for SuperMe are the winning strategies for life,” says the blurb. “As with life, it just takes a little practice…”

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Access the original article online at: http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/pda/2010/jul/12/channel4-education-superme