Peace Maker - A Video Game to Teach Peace
PeaceMaker is a cross-cultural political video game simulation of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict which is currently being developed under the auspices of Carnegie Mellon University’s Entertainment Technology Center.
The Israeli-Palestinian conflict is a pervasive and long running global dilemma. It is at once a political, religious, and regional conflict whose roots can be traced back thousands of years. Many aspects of the conflict have a universal importance and are deeply related to social, economic , and foreign policy issues throughout the world.
In PeaceMaker, a one-player game, the player takes the role of either the Israeli or Palestinian Prime Minister. The player must act and react to ingame events in order to establish a stable resolution to the conflict before his or her term in office is up. Peace is a fragile and difficult goal to achieve, but as this game will show, it is the only way to resolve one of the longest running conflicts mankind has ever faced.
PeaceMaker will be playable online for free and made globally accessible for people to use world-wide, including students and classrooms in the U.S., Israel and Palestine.
In this session members of the Peacemaker team will demonstrate the playable game and discuss the ins and outs of its production. Attendees will learn how the game was built to provide a balanced view of the conflict as much as possible and how it mixes real-world reports and fictional gameplay experiences to provide a unique approach to the player. Peace Maker - A Video Game to Teach Peace
The Israeli-Palestinian conflict is a pervasive and long running global dilemma. It is at once a political, religious, and regional conflict whose roots can be traced back thousands of years. Many aspects of the conflict have a universal importance and are deeply related to social, economic , and foreign policy issues throughout the world.
In PeaceMaker, a one-player game, the player takes the role of either the Israeli or Palestinian Prime Minister. The player must act and react to ingame events in order to establish a stable resolution to the conflict before his or her term in office is up. Peace is a fragile and difficult goal to achieve, but as this game will show, it is the only way to resolve one of the longest running conflicts mankind has ever faced.
PeaceMaker will be playable online for free and made globally accessible for people to use world-wide, including students and classrooms in the U.S., Israel and Palestine.
In this session members of the Peacemaker team will demonstrate the playable game and discuss the ins and outs of its production. Attendees will learn how the game was built to provide a balanced view of the conflict as much as possible and how it mixes real-world reports and fictional gameplay experiences to provide a unique approach to the player. Peace Maker - A Video Game to Teach Peace
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