Your hard earned tax-payer dollars are being spent on… a video game?

Liz Harrington writes for the Free Beacon:

Feds Spend $579,301 on Video Game to Teach College Students About Rape

The Department of Justice is spending more than a half a million dollars to create a video game that teaches college students about sexual assault prevention.

The National Institute of Justice awarded a grant to the University of New Hampshire last year to create a game targeting college-aged males that can be played online and on smartphones.

“We expect that by delivering a prevention strategy to men in an online application, a format that they use daily, male participants will report increased attention to the message,” the grant said.

The university received $579,301 for the project, which they are using to create an Interactive Simulation Video Game “Advisory Board” comprised of “professionals from the behavioral sciences, victim services, prevention, public health, criminal justice, and game design fields.”

The game will be based off the university’s sexual prevention program and bystander marketing campaign, which sells posters that depict conversations about rape.

After it is developed, the video game will be tested on 480 students. A spokesperson for the University of New Hampshire said the project is in the very beginning stages because the grant award was just finalized.