Tuesday, October 14, 2008

Truth Invaders Web Game

A friend of mine, Jeremy Bernstein, is a writer/game designer living in LA; he's done some work in political games in the past with the aptly, if unimaginatively, named Redistricting Game (www.redistrictinggame.org). Now he's put together a game targeting all the dirty, dirty lies being spewed out of the presidential campaigns.

I'm fascinated by this stuff, because I'm always a little puzzled why we don't use the addictive nature of gaming more as part of an educational technique.

The game is called Truth Invaders, www.truthinvaders.com. If you enjoy it, let people know, 'cause this kind of thing is all the publicity it's gonna get.

And so we keep it participatory -- in the Comments, favorite computer/console game of the moment. Bonus points for obscurity or age.

52 comments:

  1. I finally cracked and bought PORTAL on Steam. And it's surely going to be the death of me. Or at least the death of a Saturday afternoon.

    In case you meant Flash games only, ENDLESS ZOMBIE RAMPAGE on "Kongregate" is wonderfully mindless violence.

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  2. Replaying MEGA MAN II via the Wii's Virtual Console, and still loving it as much as I did in the mid-'80s.

    I want to be able to absorb the weapons of my foes!

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  3. At the moment I am playing The Force Unleashed, which is a ridiculously awesome story trapped inside a horrible, horrible game.

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  4. Anonymous9:34 AM

    X-COM. Lots of X-COM. Three cheers for DOSBox and Abandonia.

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  5. Persona 3.

    Make friends, fall in love, shoot yourself in the head to summon demons that fight shadow monsters at the 25th hour of every night.

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  6. until last weeK:
    x-com. terror from the deep and ufo defense.
    steam had them for 13 dollars and i jumped.
    my disks are corrupt (damned floppies) so it's 100% win.

    colinzation. beat it a few times (or got to the point where i said "400 cav, 150 arty and 600 guys? no thanks") and the bugs and balance got to me, so now i'm back to the most Epic kingdom game evar:
    Europa Universalis III: In Nomine and napaloeans ambition 3.1 patch.

    with two expansions it's finnaly the game it should have been.
    and it's devouring me with the "just one more year" mentalitiy.

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  7. I tried to get into Europa Universalis, I really did, but when the game got to arranged marriages that's when I threw my hands up in the air and cried uncle.

    Oddly enough, I am thoroughly enjoying Galactic Civilizations II, if for no other reason than it offers some funny opportunities for pseudo-roleplaying in a non-RPG setting. Stuff like recreating the Imperium of Man is a hoot, especially when you blow up, like, a Drengin planet and shout "feel the wrath of the God-Emperor, filthy xenos!" at your computer. Calling an Exterminatus = always fun.

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  8. Just started on Company of Heroes. I thought it was impossible for me to get excited about yet another WWII game, least of all an rts, but damn if they didn't pull it off. By zooming in and focussing more on the tactical bits, it's become a really gripping and visceral experience.

    It would obviously be enormously improved by being about men in ludicrous armor shouting about burning heretics and purging the unclean, but you cant have everything. Not yet, anyway.

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  9. I was playing Force Unleashed until a week ago. I'll agree with john that it's a pretty awesome story, though I didn't dislike the game as much. It's got a couple of really irritating glitches, and is in danger of being simplistic and repetitive, but it's still decent.

    I'm now replaying Mass Effect again, partly because there is a sad, sad lack of decent RPGs that are remotely current, and I am, at the moment, exceedingly poor, so couldn't afford a new one even if there was such a thing.

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  10. My main issue with The Force Unleashed is the camera, which appears to be snorting way too much coke. Hey, LucasArts, my television does not project holograms; making me attack a guy who three-dimensionally is something like 8 inches in front of my television screen is NOT GOOD. Fuzzy targeting, also good not so much.

    I came late to the next-gen party so I'm way behind on some of the must-play 360 games. Once I finish TFU my next pickup will be a random selection from Oblivion, Mass Effect, Silent Hill 5, Bioshock, and the just-released Dead Space, which if reviews are to be believed is pretty impressive.

    World of War also looks intriguing, but like sh and I imagine many others I have trouble getting excited about a WWII game. Though if the storyline is as shockingly good as COD4's was I'll definitely give it a look.

    Am I the only person who is mildly disappointed that THQ is spending valuable dev resources on 'Nids in DOW2? I can't really think of a race I'd RATHER see in that spot, but if I want to play Zerg I'll fire up StarCraft...

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  11. Fallout. Damnit, this game is pure gold, even after replaying it for the last ten years. Someone should make a movie out of it...

    I am such a sucker though for the 'updated' sports games. FIFA, PES, have to get them every year.

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  12. Anonymous12:15 AM

    The Fan-remake of Quest For Glory 2.

    I'm a huge fan of point-and-click adventure games, and the folks at agdinteractive.com have been remaking some of the old text-parser games with 4-color and 16-color graphics as more fully-fledged 256 point-and-click games.

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  13. EU is the kind of game I would call a 'nut grinder' - If you're not old enough to be familiar with the source material (Kingdoms of the Middle Ages, the board game of the same name, Empires in Arms) it can be pretty hard to get your head fully around everything. It's a grand strategy gamer's grand strategy game. Same with Hearts of Iron.

    I'm just happy it's now on the computer, because both the board game of EU and Empires in Arms typically required a laptop to handle the economic calculations from turn to turn.

    I mean, don't get me wrong, I love me a good game of Civ or Pax Britanica, or even Genocide in Brittian (Britannica) but those games are a bit...long. At least for something that requries a table with precise cardboard chits.

    I hate to say it but I'm excited about fallout 3. I know it'll be well...a bethseda monstrosity, but damnit i needz mah fallout.


    Also, Strongbad's game for cool and attractive people is highly reccomended by The Wife.

    Also, company of heroes does scratch about a quarter of my Dawn of War itch, though the information about DoW2 is that it'll be much less like CoH and even DoW.

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  14. I have also been playing X-COM recently.

    The open-source port of Star Control II is pretty awesome, too: The Ur-Quan Masters

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  15. Nethack is the only real game, especially if you use tiles instead of ASCII characters. My neutral human wizard Cownose has died so many times I keep meeting his ghost when I import other people bones levels.

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  16. W.W.II, which is an online clone of Axis and Allies. I'm able to play it with my brothers, who live halfway across the country.

    http://gamesbyemail.com/Games/WW2

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  18. Anonymous5:18 AM

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