An online game developed at the University of Southern California’s Game Innovation Lab explores how redistricting - the redrawing of Congressional district boundaries - can essentially disenfranchise voters.
The Redistricting Game, playable online, was recently shown to members of Congress by Rep. John Tanner (D-TN).
According to a post from Nuschi Martynov that arrived on our desks, and a babelfish translation of this German blog post political activists opposed to the G8 are meeting in Second Life to avoid the big fence and 16,000 policemen stopping them protesting up close and personal in meat space.
Ten years in the making, a million-dollar project funded by Telefilm Canada and supported by Canada's National History Society has finally come to fruition. HistoriCanada: The New World is a Civilization III mod designed to help students learn about Canadian history. Gamers take control of the English, French, or one of over half a dozen native peoples and play through the years of 1525 and 1762, shaping the country as the game plays out in Civ III-style.
Darfur Is Dying, an online role-playing game, was among the games featured this week at the fourth annual Games for Change conference at the New School in New York City. Conference included some MacA grantees - may be useful for GoodPlay references and interventions.
We wrote about Project Agape, a new startup that is applying viral principles to altruism and social causes, in late March (”Project Agape” is a working name for the service, it is yet to be formally named). Today, the service is launching as one of the initial Facebook Platform partners.
Online games like World of Warcraft and Second Life are absolute dictatorships, where the whim of the companies controlling them is law. Cory Doctorow wonders if it's possible to create a game that's a democracy, where your in-world property is really yours.
After years of Minuteman militias' preening "border patrol" exercises, months of Congressional grandstanding and weeks of debate over a House bill to crack down on immigrants, the immigrant movement struck back. In March, demonstrations and boycotts galvanized millions of people.
A growing movement of "activist" videogame designers is showing that not only can you make good games about problems like global warming, the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and the childhood obesity epidemic but that gaming itself can be a powerful medium for spreading awareness and getting people involved. These game makers are not offering the escapist trances so many of today's mega-budget games provide. On the contrary, they want to wake you up.
HAVING already launched a generation of Gwen Stefani clones and death-metal bands into fleeting Internet fame, MySpace — the largest social-networking site — is now setting its sights higher: to help elect the next president of the United States.
Hoping to educate children on ways to mitigate the effects of natural disaster, The United Nations has released a Stop Disasters!, a free, online game.
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An online game developed at the University of Southern California’s Game Innovation Lab explores how redistricting - the redrawing of Congressional district boundaries - can essentially disenfranchise voters. The Redistricting Game, playable online, was recently shown to members of Congress by Rep. John Tanner (D-TN).
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