Back to the simulations questions. I stumbled on a bunch of simulation video games where you can
be a "third world" farmer
be a sweatshop worker
be a displaced Darfurian
be an African health service worker
be a refugee
As the Darfur game folks put it, "it offers a faint glimpse of what life is like". Is this useful? Or dangerous, to think that you know? Or will it be obvious that through a video game you only barely know? Can these games weave connections between here and there, us and them?
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There's also ICED, a game about the way immigration enforcement works in the U.S. http://www.icedgame.com/ and here's a description http://www.comminit.com/en/node/273655
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