Projects tagged "video games"

Undertale
Practitioner:
Toby Fox
Date:
Sep 15 2015
Undertale is a critically acclaimed JRPG indie title that was recently released, and you can get it on the game’s official website or Steam.
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Covert Gay Representation in Video Games
Practitioner:
Jacques Servin
Date:
Dec 15 1996
Upon the release of the 1996 Maxis Inc. computer game SimCopter, the company discovered programmer Jacques Servin had secretly added scantily clad male CPUs to appear in the game and make out with the player character.
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Walden, A Game
Practitioner:
Tracy J. Fullerton
Date:
Feb 27 2017
It’s certainly a long way from Grand Theft Auto. Henry David Thoreau’s classic “Walden” is the inspiration for what Smithsonian Magazine is calling “the world’s most improbable video game”: Walden, a Game.
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Gesta Final
Practitioner:
Cuban Government
Date:
Apr 8 2013
HAVANA — It’s the latest challenge for computer gamers, in Cuba at least: Fight your way through mangrove swamps shoulder-to-shoulder with bearded guerrillas clad in the olive green of Fidel Castro and Ernesto “Che” Guevara. Your mission: Topple 1950s dictator Fulgencio Batista.
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World Without Oil
Practitioner:
Ken Eklund (Writer Guy Inc.)
Date:
Apr 30 2007
World Without Oil (WWO) is an alternate reality game (ARG) created to call attention to, spark dialogue about, plan for and engineer solutions to a possible near-future global oil shortage, post peak oil.
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Baldur's Gate: Siege of Dragonspear
Practitioner:
Beamdog
Date:
Mar 31 2016
Original Story: The GOG and Steam store pages for Baldur's Gate: Siege of Dragonspear are littered with negative reviews, with gamers trashing the game largely as a result of an encounter that takes place between the player and a transgender character.
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The Great Game
Practitioner:
John Klima
Date:
Oct 16 2001
The Great Game is a Java applet consisting of a realtime 3d terrain map of the Afghanistan region, depicting munitions, aircraft, targets, and troop movements for each day of the conflict. The Artist culls by hand the daily data from Department of Defense press briefings. Available information regarding type, quantity, and location of munitions and strikes are represented by play pieces created by the Artist from military diagrams.
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