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PC Games To Help Public Policy Initiatives

Posted by timothy on from the how-about-legislator-doom dept.

Ben Sawyer writes: "The Woodrow Wilson Center's Foresight and Governance Project has published Serious Games: Improving Public Policy through Game-Based Learning and Simulation, a whitepaper. The paper illustrates how government agencies and non-governmental organizations (NGOs) can utilize game-based techniques, technologies, and approaches to produce innovative simulations, models, and game-based learning products that enhance public policy decisions. The Woodrow Wilson Center is distributing the paper on-line to a variety of agencies, organizations, and game developers to help foster greater discussion and cooperation between key public policy makers and game developers. Interested readers can find the homepage for the paper here."

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  1. New game for congress by kir · · Score: 3, Funny

    WOW! Now maybe someone will create a "learning" game that will teach congress that they can't take money from the MPAA/RIAA/etc. and give them whatever they want.

    Soon to follow this game's release - a "learning" simulation for the Patent Office (just guess)!

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  2. other good PC games by I+Want+GNU! · · Score: 4, Funny

    Civilizations 3 is another great learning game. It gave me valuable life experience for the next time I have a 6000 year life span and an empire to build. When this occurs, I would like to be the Persians, because their special unit the Immortals will help me conquer competing civilizations. I also have learned that when I conquer foreign cities and they are unhappy, if I simply make them entertainers and they starve for a few turns, the city size decreases and they become happy again.

  3. Um.. by The+Evil+Troll+King · · Score: 4, Funny

    Perhaps public policy makers should stay away from gaming technology. Look what it's done to us. Imagine the headline:

    Orrin Hatch changes name to "DethGod", vows to "V3T0 J00R A$$3$"

    On second thought, that might be kind of cool....

    Steve

  4. Yes! by Odinson · · Score: 4, Funny
    I can finally put my Civilization conquests on my resume!

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  5. SimDictator by KingJawa · · Score: 3, Funny

    The Sim packages would be good for political insight -- if you believe that dictorial decisions make for the best political system. Could you imagine a mayor who unilaterally bulldozes industrial zones for a park? Or if the city would brown-out if the Mayor didn't like nuclear power? Or if, like me, you wanted a stadium near your house?