The game, called Soul Control, was produced by a group of 20 young people aged 16-19 from across the capital as part of a project run by multimedia education company RollingSound.
The project was set up to give young people at risk of exclusion a chance to show off their creativity and was paid for with £19,000 from funding body Mediabox.
Soul Control centres on the life of a teenager on a London estate. Players interact with other characters in the street, such as families and friends, to show the long-term repercussions of crimes such as carrying knives or dealing drugs.
Ben Guiste, 17, who worked on the game said: "We wanted to show what it's like for young people, as well as showing how easy it is to get trapped in this kind of lifestyle."
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