February 2, 2006
Antitainment Gaming
Molleindustria [English] [Italian] offers brilliant “political videogames against the dictatorship of entertainment.” Over on Water Cooler Games, Ian just wrote up their latest, an anti-McDonald’s game in the vein of the anti-Kinko’s Disaffected! This is a pretty complex one that involves much more than paper-shuffling, as the extensive introductory tutorial (in the style of a managerial PowerPoint presentation) should signal. I can’t comment yet on the long-term playability of McDonald’s Videogame, but the site is definitely worth a visit, and I do recommend at least starting up and playing with all the games. The ones that involve fornication might wait until after work, though.
February 3rd, 2006 at 10:34 pm
Hey lookit that! Cnet had the same idea, and today also carried an item on anti-advergaming: “Games that stick it to ‘The Man'” Well, they actually wrote a whole article, not just a paragraph, speaking not only to the Persuasive Gaming and Molleindustria crew but also to the digital brand manager for Kinko’s – excuse me, FedEx Kinko’s – who says … well, you should read the article to see what he says.
Especially cool is that (thanks to Ian pimping the game, I bet) they even mentioned Book and Volume!
September 2nd, 2006 at 11:44 pm
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