My game idea (post-apocalyptic Oregon Trail set in 1983) got "Honorable mention" in that Games for Change contest:http://www.gamesforchange.org/2015/12/winner-of-10000-prize-announced-inn-square-game-design-challenge/ …
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I still think it is a good idea as a way to teach about the effects of nuclear war, and may pursue it independently. It is the anti-Fallout.
(I am not opposed to the fun of the Fallout games, of course. They just have zero relationship whatsoever with actual nuclear war.)
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@wellerstein Fallout is retrofuturistic and thus not so realistic. And what do you mean Anti-fallout, just been curious. -
@zeziberto They are retrofuturistic, but also sci-fi — they don't exist in the same physical universe as us, in terms of physics or biology.
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@wellerstein is there a link to the prototype or concept? Would love to see the game play. -
@pbaxter It's just a written pitch at this point. Lots of ideas in my head. :-) But nothing to look at... yet. -
@wellerstein Keep us posted!
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@wellerstein I do think they nicely encapsulate how people have been acculturated to think about nuclear war. -
@RandomJetship Right— I appreciate what they are and what they are trying to do. They just don't have any educational value, that's all. -
@wellerstein Well, it depends what you're trying to teach—I'd be hard pressed to say that any influential cultural artifact has no ed. value -
@wellerstein But that does not at all diminish the attractiveness of a game that could be used to teach more accurate technical material!
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