Any Gamers/Programmers Here? An idea...

On another note all of you should check out this game that just came out. It's called The Political Machine 2008. Basically it's a really fun simulation of the election process. You can even play as Ron Paul.

Check it out. Here is a link to the review.

http://www.1up.com/do/rev...

Programmers tend to be night owls. Yeah, it's a blanket statement, but one that's usually pretty darn accurate! And so I bump this up for any late-night computer geeks to see.

Excellent idea. I'd also propose a board game based on Ron Paul's message.

My brother-in-law is a programmer and I sucked into gaming for a few years. I look back and just feel like it was just a distraction. I played team games. The bigger the game the better. One game in particular was a MMO which featured 3 opposing empires. It sticks out to me because I see what happened in that game happen currently in politics. That is one side dominates, one side fends off the dominating team, and both squash the smaller team. The smaller team is left to seek other means of participation in obscurity. That's is what i see today and what was debated at the time was how to balance the game play better.

Many fans of the game suggested adding more real complexity to the game but developers wanted a game that catered to the "casual" gamer as opposed to the thinking gamer.

In that game you received kits from stations for free. When you scored you got experience points, after a certain number of points you got merits and so forth.

If I could have ever build a game in that image I would model it from the real world and shape it into my own quasi-utopia. I would build it to accommodate 5 factions and be able to expand to 7. Build in a real economy and teach what a free market is. Rewards for using you head and consequences for not. I'd tailor the empire/factions to the different ideologies most prominent in todays society. Each empire would be ruled by the economic model in which the ideology subscribes. I would make an attempt to recreate the political scene as it could/should be.

But whatever I'm not really into gaming anymore.

Commission on Presidential Debates - http://www.debates.org/pa...
National Ballot Access - http://www.directdemocrac...
Voters for none of the above - http://nota.org/
Black Box Voting - http://www.blackboxvoting...

a new family game: The Central Banking Game. Loads of fun. Create massive inflation and bring down your opponents' governmental and societal structures, form cartel partnerships and banking cabals online, create chaos, bread riots, bogus free trade agreements, install totalitarian regimes, enslave entire populations, confuse your citizens with foreign military adventures and improbable spins when your electronic populations get suspicious, send your citizens on non-uniformed invasions of your neighboring countries and bring about the collapse of their public health systems. Create your own parroting news media. Constant thrills and intrigue for the whole family as you try to discover the identity of your friends and enemies. Learn Keynesian destructo-nomics the fun way. Create your own World Order. Great for the kiddies.

Try an mystery/intrigue game like "Under a Killing Moon", combined with a deep plot and rich environment like "Riven". You start off as a contractor in Iraq (with excesses there, like leaving trucks to burn) and start connecting the dots.

There will be times where you have to defend yourself, sneak around, et cetera.

Duke Nukem was one of the first generation of First Person Shooters. It was set in Washington, D.C. and the main character had to fight off an alien invasion. Some of the alien's were dressed in police uniforms and looked like bipedal boars.

There have been too many games to name that have been developed as an Orwellian plot. Most of them deal with futuristic and post apocalyptic scenarios.

There has not been a game specifically dealing with taking down big brother or the Orwellian system before it comes of age. There are plenty of movies and games for after the fact but only V for Vendetta actually goes into taking the system out before it gets a stranglehold.

I think the idea is an awesome one. If it was done correctly by a major developer you could easily expect the plot line to be unique and sell millions of copies.

For those of you that don't know.... the gaming industry is an 18 billion dollar a year machine. It's one of the best kept secrets. Games account for more money per household than bullets. Even the army has put out a game in an effort to do some recruiting. If you want to have another great avenue for opening the youth's eyes gaming is where it's at.

Don't forget to add Homeland Security and the various swat teams, FEMA unused trailers, FED open ended printing press, Haliburton, and Blackwater as well as all of the hummers that are just burned and left abandoned in the desert if they get flat tires. One thing for sure is there would be no shortage of intrigue or action. No one could make up this drama that is being played out. Maybe a game will be what it takes to wake people up to their reality, ironically.

Well, I'm glad to see there's some interest in this idea, and that I'm not the only one thinking this way. I really expect this could really catch on, if it's done right. Since I'm not a programmer nor a computer graphics designer, the best I can do is share my ideas in good ol' text. :)

As suggested in comments below: "For realism...the game should come complete with false-flag terrorist attacks, protestors getting tasered and beaten, internet disinfo trolls (etc.)"

I agree, with the caveat that issues perceived by the general public as "tin foil hat" get introduced much later in the game (not that those particular examples were "tin foil hat" examples). Grabbing interest in the game and keeping them playing on lower levels (where less-"conspiratorial" ideas are in play) may help pave the way for introducing other ideas as players get more involved (and therefore more committed) in the game.

Just as it's overwhelming to begin a r3volution conversation with someone by speaking first of 9/11 theories and other ideas that may not be readily accepted, I should think it would be to the game's advantage to utilize the basics in the lower levels of play first, and then introduce more "suspect" ideas later in the game.

E.g., start out with unbridled inflation (something everyone can relate with) -- perhaps the player begins with a set amount of funds, but as time passes, the funds deplete, not because their money has been taken from them, but because the value goes down during play. This sets a sense of urgency -- gotta reach subgoal X quickly before I can't afford to buy (gas to get to place X, or food, or whatever...). The message is: time is of the essence. We need to act now, while we can.

Also, the well-known FISA telecom immunity can be brought into the early stages of the game, since everybody knows about that very real issue (i.e., "non conspiratorial"). Perhaps have communications between users get intercepted by the adversaries, thus (temporarily) thwarting the players' plans...until they find a way around that obstacle and forge ahead in the game.

Personally, I would want the overall approach to this game to be one that Ron Paul himself would be comfortable playing (if he, uh, played such games). I'd strongly advise keeping this a high-adventure, action-packed, and yet peaceful demonstration (meaning, while we may defend ourselves, we don't attack with violence) of returning to a Constitutional republic. There may come scenarios where peace necessarily gives way to violence, but I would urge those pondering the design of this game to consider the image this game would represent to people, and how people would perceive this game in light of pursuing liberty. We want to be careful as to how we represent the intentions of the Campaign for Liberty; while this game would not have that particular name associated with it, the ideas of the CFL would most certainly be associated with it. The last thing we'd need is for such a game to be perceived by the public as an "anti-government" game, since our goal is not anarchy, but a return to a specific kind of government: a Constitutional republic.

Heck, just the act of designing this game may help us storyboard our own effective approaches to the issues facing us in real life. Even if it never came to market, it would certainly help us flesh out ideas on how best to proceed in this r3volution.

Half-Life 2 does a pretty good job portraying the police state in a dystopic future totalitarian system. Complete with additives in the water and tazer/cattleprod-happy excessive enforcement, the loudspeaker announces: "City 17. It's SAFER here."

albeit less of a programmer and more of an artist.

i was seriously considering putting together a retro style pixel-pushed arcade-like side scrolling politically charged beat-em-up, basically taking down all the lame ass neo-cons established in various branches of the government. the focus was mainly humor through satire, but still deliver a poignant message about how it all works by reflecting the reality of todays political landscape and how it is perceived by the average dolt.

then i realized that by the time it would take me to finish it working alone, the elections would have been far over with and forgotten by most people to even care. :(

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I design scenarios for fun sometimes. I have thought about doing a R3vOLution vs. NWO scenario.

...the game should come complete with false-flag terrorist attacks, protestors getting tasered and beaten, internet disinfo trolls, crooked politicians taking bribes and paying for hookers using tax-payer money, endless "war on everything," rigged black-box elections, a propaganda matrix posing as "mainstream" media, etc.

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I have often thought of the same thing...to create a Revolution Game and a Politics Campaign game. Which would make it popular to get involved and educational too! Very Cool Tool!

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