May 25, 2009

simulation games


Back to the simulations questions. I stumbled on a bunch of simulation video games where you can

be a "third world" farmer

be a sweatshop worker

be a displaced Darfurian

be an African health service worker


be a refugee


As the Darfur game folks put it, "it offers a faint glimpse of what life is like". Is this useful? Or dangerous, to think that you know? Or will it be obvious that through a video game you only barely know? Can these games weave connections between here and there, us and them?

1 comment:

Andrea Parra said...

There's also ICED, a game about the way immigration enforcement works in the U.S. http://www.icedgame.com/ and here's a description http://www.comminit.com/en/node/273655