{"id":125,"date":"2007-08-25T13:05:00","date_gmt":"2007-08-25T20:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.chesnok.com\/daily\/2007\/08\/25\/peacemaker-and-indie-educational-software\/"},"modified":"2007-08-25T13:08:14","modified_gmt":"2007-08-25T20:08:14","slug":"peacemaker-and-indie-educational-software","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chesnok.com\/daily\/2007\/08\/25\/peacemaker-and-indie-educational-software\/","title":{"rendered":"PeaceMaker and indie educational software"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I played this game <a href=\"http:\/\/www.peacemakergame.com\/\">PeaceMaker<\/a> for the first time this week.  The goal of the game is to establish peace in Israel by finding a two-state solution to the conflict. Here&#8217;s the <a xhref=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/templates\/story\/story.php?storyId=12056286\">NPR story<\/a>. They have a list of assumptions the game adheres to with this telling bullet point:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<ul class=\"spacy\">\n<li>Small concrete steps, not grandiose plans<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>I was completely immersed in the game. You choose to be the leader of Israel or the Palestinian people, and then you are given a palette of possible actions. The Palestinian leader has nearly a third less options than the Israeli leader, and must focus on cooperation to win.<\/p>\n<p>I was the Israeli leader and played for more than an hour before I won. The close of the game presents you with a &#8220;violence&#8221; rating &#8211; I got a 63 (the scale went to over 250, I believe), and an admonishment to try for less violent means of solving the conflict the next time I played.<\/p>\n<p>The social studies teachers are planning on getting the game for all the lab computers in the high school and designing curriculum for their Middle East module that includes PeaceMaker.<\/p>\n<p>That sparked a discussion about other educational games and their impact with a generation of kids who grew up with amazing interactive games. I did a little searching and found <a href=\"http:\/\/www.positech.co.uk\/democracy\/\">Democracy<\/a> through <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tigsource.com\/features\/games11-20.html\">The Independent gaming source<\/a>. I&#8217;m looking for other games though! The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.peacemakergame.com\/blog\/\">PeaceMaker blog<\/a> was a great resource for a few moments of research.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m curious about games that are available for open source operating systems. I&#8217;ve only ever played Doom and Nethack with Linux. Most friends say that they keep a windows machine around to play games, so I imagine the gaming world hasn&#8217;t really leaped into using Linux.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I played this game PeaceMaker for the first time this week. The goal of the game is to establish peace in Israel by finding a two-state solution to the conflict. Here&#8217;s the NPR story. They have a list of assumptions &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.chesnok.com\/daily\/2007\/08\/25\/peacemaker-and-indie-educational-software\/\">Continue reading &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-125","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chesnok.com\/daily\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chesnok.com\/daily\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chesnok.com\/daily\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chesnok.com\/daily\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chesnok.com\/daily\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=125"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.chesnok.com\/daily\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chesnok.com\/daily\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=125"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chesnok.com\/daily\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=125"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chesnok.com\/daily\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=125"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}