New political games
Games are great storytelling techniques. Persuasive Games has released two new political games worth checking out. Why aren't more news sites creating features like these?
Take Back Illinois: Commissioned by the Illinois House Republicans, Take Back Illinois is an integrated four-part strategy game that challenges players to play through key issues facing Illinois voters in this year's state legislative election. Each game deals with a different issue, and a new one will launch every week for four weeks. The issues are Medical Malpractice Reform, Education, Participation, and Economic Reform. The games are interrelated, meaning your play in one affects your play in the others. As of today, we have released the first two sub-games. The others will follow on October 6 and 13, respectively.
Activism, the Public Policy Game: Sponsored by the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, Activism asks you to create a virtual activism plan, promoting the DCCC's goal of getting 10,000 activists on the ground before the election. You can muster your activists to six different public policy topics. The game also experiments with a new way to do public policy polling, allowing players to share their activism plans by providing demographic information, and to load other peoples' activism plans and play their ideology.
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4 comments about 'New political games'Things are certainly heating up with the election and all. Medical Malpractice Reform is a key issue, as well as how we are going to pay the increase in health insurance.
Look for both sides to pay lip service and do nothing once elected.
Posted by CarlosX at October 17, 2004 11:14 AM
Check out Gotham Gazette's Voting Arcade, at http://www.gothamgazette.com/votegame, a look at the many ways the voting process is flawed (or worse) by offering new versions of old video games: Play Donkey Con, for example, to learn about the impossibility of beating an incumbent.
Posted by Jonathan Mandell at October 18, 2004 7:03 PM
They are making games on anything which is worth taking money for. It's a pity people have no taste and they play what is given to them.
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Posted by Big Gamer at February 4, 2005 6:13 AM
In general I’m all for the democratic process, but in the end it may just come down to this! Check out this great political satire game “Barack Paper Scissors” at www.usarps.com
These are the people who give away a 50,000 dollar prize for playing Rock Paper Scissors!
I love it when you get to round 3 and Hillary says, “Would it help if I cried,” when she loses.
Seriously, it’s a lot of fun.
Posted by Mandi at March 26, 2008 4:54 PM
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