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Thread #85437 Message #1582334
Posted By: Donuel
13-Oct-05 - 11:43 AM
Thread Name: BS: Power and Greed - the board game
Subject: BS: Power and Greed - the board game
I created a game called power and greed. It made the papers in Boston, albeit on April Fool's day 15 years ago, but I never published it.
One of the characters a player can evolve to is a liberal populist President - however the likely hood of assasination for a lpp is very high.
One can even assume the character of a journalist and work for the Daily Leak or become a war profiteer for Military Industrial Corp.
Yes you can get indicted and if found guilty go to one of two prisons.
There is much that is prophetic to the game. One can venture into the loop hole path of the game and get away with murder or even become elected through a recall vote by only 12% of the population.
The religious right is of course a direction of play one can go into just as one can steer their political career as a Democrat or Independent.
The game is begun by entering the workplace or various fields of education of your choice and face the various real life pit falls of work and/or college and graduate school. It has over 1000 cards for 8 different catagories of play.
I should do an update of the game to include joining the reserves either as a working class person (by rolling any number) or the son of a Senator (by rolling snake eyes). The winner is the one who either survives by default or has the most power or the most greed/money.
The project started as a political cartoon and then took on a life of its own. The thing is no one plays board games anymore so I shelved it until such time that I could help turn it into a video game.
Does anyone know a very special someone in the gaming field who can actually get this done ???????
I can of course do graphics and flash animations.... but code for a game - no way.