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Social Impact Games

Posted by Zonk on from the game-your-homework dept.

TeachingMachines writes "If you are interested in the cultural potential of gaming you might want to check out Social Impact Games. It's a site that catalogs links to over 200 games that are entertaining but not necessarily designed for the purpose of entertainment. For example, the Monkey Wrench Conspiracy is a first-person shooter game designed to teach mechanical design engineers to use 3-D CAD software. A game titled Incident Commander will model situations that include acts of terrorism, school hostage crises, and natural disasters."

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  1. Social Impact, eh? by maskedbishounen · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Here's one a lot of /. folks might enjoy. The Anti-Bush Video Game.

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  2. Monkey Wrench Conspiracy by HanClinto · · Score: 3, Interesting

    This game looks really cool, but I can't find a place where I might be able to download it / buy it / try it. The manufacturer's website is giving me a 404, and while it has vague allusions to it on a search through the site, there's no hard information on it. It looks like it might have been renamed to "Time Mechanic", but I'm not finding that either. Anyone elae have better luck with this?

  3. Re:Ultima IV was disqualified, I guess by FortKnox · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Wow, I'm so glad that someone else thinks the same way. The Ultima series after 4 always involved the 7 virtues and 3 principles and the relation of them all. Every town had a fundamental virtue that life was based around. It really showed a player what it took to be a virtuous person.

    That being said, the remake doesn't look as impressive as the NES version of Ultima 4 (which was very impressive, might I add).

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