Podcast #10: Propaganda Games

The MindGames Podcast

English - May 26, 2019 10:24 - 1 hour
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Previous Episode: Podcast #9: Difficulty in Games

Next Episode: Podcast #11: A Currency Exchange

Today we dive into the swamp of propaganda games throughout history, including games produced by fascist & communist regimes, white supremacists... and western democracies. Includes some irreverent discussion of racist, fundamentalist views.

Today's references (in order of appearance):
Ethical Game Design (Extra Credits) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UP4_bMhZ4gA
Our Guys in Salisbury (Igroland)
PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds (PUBG Corporation)
Force for Peace (Tencent)
Gwent: The Witcher Card Game (CD Projekt Red)
Glorious Mission (Giant Interactive Group)
Incorruptible Warrior (Ningbo Social Affairs)
Anti-Japan War Online (PowerNet Technology)
Call of Duty (Infinity Ward)
America's Army (United States Army)
Kremlin (Urs Hostettler)
The Death of Stalin (Armando Ianucci)
Trump: The Game (Milton Bradley Company)
Socialism: The Unofficial Monopoly Expansion (Diogenes Games Ltd)
Assorted Soviet Union games: https://thecharnelhouse.org/2012/10/02/soviet-board-games-1920-1938/
Game of the British Empire or Trading with the Colonies (Glevgum Games)
The British Empire (Norvic Mill)
Flying around the British Empire (Roberts Brothers)
Juden Raus (Gunther & Co)
Bomber uber England (Herold)
Mit "Prien" gegen England (Franz Schmidt)
Hunting for the Coal Thief (Lepthian-Schiffers)
Ethnic Cleansing (National Alliance)
Purification

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