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Narratives of War
ENGL 122NW - Winter 2007,  Rita Raley
Thu, 3/8 War games

Balkan Wars: The Game:
"Both geopolitical war games and epic strategy video games are interrelated in this multi-media project. While virtual battle scenes are celebrated as the "most realistic ever," contemporary warfare has begun to resemble science fiction. The reality (or virtual reality) presented by official narratives and industrial entertainment does not adequately describe the experiences of the people who are caught in the real war games. In the real-time of CNN, and in video games, the simplification of cultures and history is itself a form of violence. The Making of Balkan Wars: The Game is intended to counteract the spectacularization of war in media by deconstructing stereotypes, focusing on the distortion of identities, and revising the dominant explanatory logic. We are not making a video game."

Further war games

- Call of Duty 2
- Kabul Kaboom!
- Kuma\War Games
- Madrid
- Special Force (Hezbollah)
- Tactical Iraqi (language instruction)
- WarGame

Consequential Games, Persuasive Games, Games with an Agenda, Serious Games

- Activism Games archive
- Against All Odds (United Nations Office of the High Commissioner for Refugees)
- agoraXchange (Natalie Bookchin and Jacqueline Stevens)
- Airport Insecurity (Persuasive Games)
- Bacteria Salad (Ian Bogost)
- Blacklash (Mongrel)
- Bordergames
- Corridos (Anne-Marie Schleiner & Luis Hernandez)
- Crosser™ and La Migra™ (Rafael Fajardo)
- Darfur is Dying (mtvU)
- Disaffected! (Persuasive Games)
- Escape from Woomera (selectparks)
- A Force More Powerful
- McDonald's Videogame (Molleindustria)
- The Maria Sisters (Global Arcade)
- Medieval Unreality (Nina Czegledy and Maia Engeli)
- Molleindustria (TuboFlex and others)
- NationStates (Max Barry)
- Oil God (Persuasive Games)
- P.o.N.G. [People of New Globalism] (Global Arcade)
- Rethinking Wargames (furtherfield.org)
- SeriousPolicy (PlayGen)
- Space Invaders Act 1732 (Andy Deck)
- Tropical America (OnRamp Arts)
- Tuboflex (Mollieindustria)
- UnderSiege
- Vagamundo: A Migrant's Tale (Ricardo Miranda Zuñiga)
- Wild West Bank (Back to Israel)
- 4-1-9: Balance (Mendi+Keith Obadike)


 



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