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 ‘iBailout’: Pocket ActivismPosted on Feb 4, 2010
“My goal is to make games that have social and political relevance,” Nick Marroni says. To that end, he has created a satirical iPhone game called “iBailout!!” You play as the “Fed,” a robot that eats money. Just don’t let the angry mob get you. Actually, Marroni reveals, “The Fed can never win in the game.” He says he wishes reality would be the same. Marroni says video games are not yet appreciated like other media, but they will be. He doesn’t want to just preach to the choir; he wants to put his socially conscious games in front of a mainstream audience and attract players who might not normally engage with politics and activism.
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By Virginia777, February 6, 2010 at 8:19 pm Link to this comment
I disagree. For so long now, most video games have been little less than “candy” for the military, amping militarism like crazy. I have also seen games built for dubious causes, as a propaganda tool.
I think this is fantastic idea! I hope it catches on and many more games like this are created. Its about time.
Report thisBy Smudge Martens, February 4, 2010 at 2:37 pm Link to this comment
“... socially conscious games in front of a mainstream audience and attract players who might not normally engage with politics and activism.”
This will make as much impact on cultivating the “mainstream audience” to embrace their responsibilities of citizenship, as Al Gore’s “Inconvenient Truth” did for global climate change.
Citizens may be starving for truth, but this clown wants to feed them cake.
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