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SimCandidate - Why Aren't There More Political Sims?
Thanks to Slate for their piece discussing why there aren't more videogames simulating current-day politics. The article posits: "The U.S. presidential campaign may be the first true election of the digital age, but it's still missing one key ingredient. Where is the video-game version of Campaign 2004?" It goes on to suggest that "presidential politics lends itself naturally to the idiom and audience of today's games. Political campaigns are already structured like games, with an escalating series of discrete competitions that determine the eventual winner. In addition, there's an existing body of readily available data, going back many decades, that could be harnessed to craft the simulation" Would you play a modern-day political sim videogame?
Why hasn't there been a reality TV show yet, like
"Who wants to be a Senator?"
Are you an NBC-Crat or a CBS-ican?
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For added realism, players could have cheat codes which allow them to edit the voting machine results:).
Alphanos
Who wants to play a game in which the only way to win is to cheat.