October 18, 2002

"Peace, Sim!"

I always thought: "wouldn't it be great to take advantage of the massive use of computer games and send thoughtful messages through them to their users?". My original thought was to jump on an online session of Quake and shout: "Stop shooting!" but it didn't take long to realise that I would have been a dead unkown avatar before finishing the sentence.

Games become more customisable though and finally we see signs of resistance against military practices in a popular game like "The Sims". This is the effort of a small group called Downloadpeace, and hopefully won't be the last. Great work folks!

Comments

Actually, I wish to create a Role Playing Game that tries to answer (among other heartfelt issues) the question of dealing with violence in an inherently non-violent world (and hopefully translates this answer to something meaningful for our very own world). I still lack the skills - and kindred spirits - to do this, but I've given myself 20 years for this project...

May I ask whoever is interested in joining such a creation to write to me at kalin@blazemail.com?

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