The game, which will be freely available from July 3 across Android, iOS and Windows platforms on mobile phones, is aimed at children between ages 14 and 18 and to encourage them to join the Air Force, IAF officials said today.
Simulating experiences of an Air Officer, the game 'Guardians of the Sky' has top notch graphics, thumping music and aircraft such as Sukhoi 30 and MiG 29, actually flown by the Air Force, they said.
The game offers missions and the player will undergo experiences as close as possible to a real briefing before every mission, war-like sitaution, search and rescue mission and all in defence of the nation against a fictional enemy country, they said.
DISHA, the IAF wing that looks afer induction of officers, has used advertisements and other tools too to encourage youth. But a mobile game, in a first, is seen as 'one-on-one' interaction which they believe is more influential to appeal to the young brains.
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