In These Games, the Points Are All Political

bettiwettiwoo writes "A New York Times article (free reg. req.) highlights a new trend in games, and political marketing: openly political games. Both Republicans and Democrats are developing games with political messages, albeit using slightly different strategies. A featured developer, Persuasive Games, is open about their not-so-objective objective: 'We design, build, and distribute electronic games for persuasion, instruction, and activism.' But would that be declared on the games so produced? And would it matter if it did? In such times of artful manipulation, it is actually quite a relief to find that not all politicos are sophisticated high tech geeks: the Long Island Political Network invites you to play... Tic Tac Toe."

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Re:Tic Tac Toe

[fucksl4shd0t]

I won on the second game. First was a draw. Took five seconds, sucker.

Re:Tic Tac Toe

[Jonathan the Nerd]

There are fewer games than 362880, since many games end before the ninth move. I wrote a program recently to print out every possible game, and it gave me 255168 games. I'm also trying to add code to eliminate rotations and mirror-images, but that part doesn't work yet.