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]]> 27 Jul 2007 02:11:45 The game exposes how redistricting works, how it is abused, and how it adversely affects our democracy. It provides hands-on understanding of the real redistricting process, including drawing district maps and interacting with strongheaded party bosses, congresspeople, citizen groups, and courts. Players directly experience how crafty manipulation of lines can yield skewed victories for either party - effectively allowing politicians to choose their voters instead voters choosing their politicians.

In addition the game provides details on a variety of reform measures - including a playable version of Rep. Tanner's "Fairness and Independence in Redistricting Act" (H.R. 2642) - as well as features that allow players to get involved in the public discourse: by dialoging with fellow citizens in an online forum, spreading the word to their friends, and even writing their congressperson directly from the game.

]]> 06 Jul 2007 11:40:30 You wake up suffering from amnesia in what appears to be a rainforest but is actually one of four artificial biomes. To survive you have to keep the biomes working, so that you have food, water and fresh air. Beside manipulating the ecological conditions and getting yourself food and water, you also have to find out what happend to the biomes, what your role in it was and how you can get out alive, as you soon will find out about an experiment that went terribly wrong...
Biosys is a suspenseful 360° panorama point-and-click adventure with many puzzles to solve and several simulation elements. Beyond this you can learn something about flora and fauna in different ecological systems.

]]> 06 Jul 2007 09:17:44 Driver's Education is a driving simulation made to teach kids the rules of the road and prepare them for their driver's test. There game consists of learning segments, written, and driving tests. The written exams ask questions regarding the laws of the specific state that the user is playing the game in (they are asked when they start a profile).

While the lessons and written test are informative, the bulk of the time is spent in the actual driving mode. In this mode, you drive around with Ed, your driving instructor. Everything must be done right, from putting on your seatbelt to checking your mirrors before changing lanes. There are also different factors that will affect your driving in different lessons. Some have different weather, and one lesson even simulates what it might be like to drive drunk. Dymanix was so sure of the effectiveness of this game that they offered a money-back guarantee if the user did not pass their driving test. The game was released in 1998, with another, updated version released in 1999.

]]> 16 Feb 2007 06:00:18 Balance of Power allows you to take on the role of either the President of the United States or the General Secretary of the Soviet Union with the goal of increasing your nation's prestige without going to war.

The interface is a simple map of the world showing the current level of influence the USSR and the US has on each nation. Turns are based around crises which much be resolved through diplomacy. This in turn affects the status of nations and the global threat level. If the threat level [DEFCON] gets too high, the game ends.

Developer: Chris Crawford
Released: 1985

]]> 24 Jan 2007 10:40:56 Hidden Agenda is a political simulator that is unique in many ways, as well as being both realistic and extremely replayable. The game casts you as the new president of Chimerica, a South American country that has just overthrown a tyrant named Farsante. The economy is in ruins, the country leaderless, massive factions fighting one another for control... and your unenviable task is to create a cabinet and begin the almost impossible task of rebuilding the country.

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