Thoughts 05 Dec 2007 07:35 pm
Peacemaker
I was recently a new game. It’s called Peacemaker and is intended to show the process of making peace between Israel and the Palestinians.
Players can choose their preferred language and which leader they want to be. The game gives two options: either Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert or Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas.
The point of the game is to create a two state solution, bring peace to the middle east, and go to Oslo to collect your Nobel prize.
From what little I’ve read it’s not so easy, but I’m sure it can be done.
The question in my mind is, since it came from the Peres Center for Peace, just how bad is the propaganda, and how much is based on wishful thinking?
You cam download the demo here or buy the full game on the web site.
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I’m still waiting for the english version of that game in which the Arabs are the good guys and the Israelis are the bad guys.
–Just for the novelty of owning such an obvious piece of retaliatory propaganda.
Although I’ve been warned that the controls still suck.
I guess it’s aimed at too small a market to get the sort of financial backing required to hire more experienced programmers.