Obsolescent Programmers

[Chuck Munson]

Thomas Seay wrote:
> 
> --- Ian Murray <seamus2001 at attbi.com> wrote:
> > It'd be great if some of those laid off programmers
> > sat down with some
> > lefty econowonks and radical political theorists and
> > made some games
> > that simulated a different type of social system. If
> > 100 people can
> > put out "Civilization" or, gasp, "Capitalism II"
> > then creating a
> > red-green game has got to be doable.
> 
> Yep.  Well, I dont know if you have ever played
> "Civilization" (I used to play it about 8 years ago)
> but there are situations in the game where if
> the people are not allowed a certain standard of
> living, they rise up and make a revolution.  However,
> there was no socialist or communist society in
> "Civilization" (or at least I dont think there was).
> Anyway, I have never been into games too much, but I
> was addicted to that one for a while.

I play Civilization all the time--it's my computer game of choice. I'm
not sure which version you played, but recent versions had a government
option of "Communism." It always annoyed me that they got "anarchy"
wrong, but at least in Civ 2.0 you could rename one of the government
types as "anarchism."

One of my friends put together a Spanish Civil War scenario that was
pretty damn tough to play. I finally won that scenario as the anarchists
with a little strategic help from an anarchist friend who used to be in
the military and had been through some startegy classes.

If you want to play some cool anti-capitalist games, I recommend:

http://www.urban75.com/

My favorites are "Brick a Brand" (played on the 'anarchist' level of
course) and "Mr. Insult's Battleships."

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