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TOWER BUILDER
Serious game, 2012
Tower Builder is a game where the internaut can become a building entrepreneur and construct the second tower of the Cathedral of Strasbourg!
Besides the webdoc, the project includes a film: “Le Défi des bâtisseurs” (the cathedral of Strasbourg in 3D) and an app for mobile devices (AR visits to a number of Gothic architecture sites). [eb-hj]
MONEYOCRACY - ROOM 501C4
Serious game, 2012
A simulation game about the financial influences on political campaigns. Published the day before the US presidential election. An epiphany of deep-seated problems.
GIMME PROPS!
Serious game, 2012
We got the idea for the project because we were frustrated with how propositions are usually covered. It’s not so much that coverage is lacking, it’s more that it tends to be super drab and short of the multimedia storytelling potential of the Interwebs. Self-interested millionaires, corporations, unions, and politicians typically use what was supposed to be a way citizens could create laws for their own benefit.
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TARGETING THE ELECTORATE
Serious game, 2012
In an increasingly digital world, political campaigns have new challenges and controversial new tools that help them target specific groups of voters. A public-service game by Frontline-PBS.
Rocket Science 101 - by NASA
Serious game, 2012
You don't have to be a rocket scientist to launch a NASA spacecraft. Select your mission and build a rocket to send the spacecraft into orbit. You can learn more about thrilling missions and the various components of the launch vehicles, how they are configured and how they work together to successfully launch a NASA spacecraft.
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THE CAT AND THE COUP
Serious game, 2011
The first democratically elected Prime Minister of Iran, Mohammad Mossadegh, nationalized the oil industry in 1951. In 1953, the CIA engineered a coup to bring about his downfall. In this game you are his cat, a witness like no other.
Eyes on the Solar System
Serious game, 2011
A 3-D environment full of real NASA mission data. Explore the cosmos from your computer. Hop on an asteroid. Fly with NASA's Voyager 2 spacecraft. See the entire solar system moving in real time. It's up to you. You control space and time.
PHONE STORY - the dark side of smartphone manufacturing
Serious game, 2011
The raw material used in smartphones, coltan, is extracted by young boys of the Congo. You will have to prevent them from taking a break when tired, or else they\'ll produce little for their wage of $1~5/day. From here, follow the production chain of your little jewel: suicides in China, planned obsolescence, waste.
Available on the Android Market and banned from the other online app store. It costs 73 cents, 70% of which will be donated to organizations working to solve the issues mentioned in this game.
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