Serious Game Classification

Global Conflicts: Palestine Serious Games Interactive (Simon Egenfeldt-Nielsen, Nick Price & Nicholas Franics) (Denmark), Serious Games Interactive (Denmark), 2007 Download it Now !

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Classification

SERIOUS GAME
(Newsgame)

Keywords

Adventure - roleplaying - Israelo-palestinian conflict - Journalism - Serious game

Purpose

Besides play, this title features the following intents:
  • Informative message broadcasting

Market

This title is used by the following domains:
  • Entertainment
  • Education

Audience

This title targets the following audience:
 Age : 17-25 / 25-35 / 35-60
General Public

Gameplay

The gameplay of this title is Game-based
(designed with stated goals)

The core of gameplay is defined by the rules below:
AVOID : explanation of this brick MATCH : explanation of this brick MANAGE : explanation of this brick MOVE : explanation of this brick SELECT : explanation of this brick
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Global Conflicts: Palestine Global Conflicts: Palestine is a serious game. It was developed by Serious Games Interactive for Mac OS X and Microsoft Windows.

The player assumes the role of a freelance journalist who has just arrived in Jerusalem facing challenges. The goal is to create and get an article published for a newspaper by collecting quotes from the dialog in the game. The player can either get information by building up trust with each side or take a more confrontational approach to dig out information. In the end, the story with the most news-value will get the best exposure. The player must be careful what they submit for print, because it will affect their standings with both sides.

The game attempts to challenge the player's beliefs and ideas about the conflict. The game has support for educational use with features like an encyclopedia, primary sources, assessment and a teacher's manual. [source:wikipedia]

Distribution : Internet - Free
Platform(s) : Macintosh - PC (Windows)

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