Difference and Peace. A peacewager, a type of game where peace is possible, but difficult. A game for training in negotiation.
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It plays out over little landscapes that look like this:
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Each type of land can have two states, face or reverse. Player characters have conflicting preferences about the state of this little world, but they will have to find a way to agree. There can only be one world, and they will both have to live in it.
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effects: make players better at negotiating alternatives to violent conflict
Crycog, a game about experimentally drawing little glyphs with your thumb to uncover the hidden laws of The Device, intended as an exercise set for training inductive reasoning, the ability to find explanations for mysterious phenomena.
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It looks like this:
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(There will be colors, and humanoids, later on in the game)
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effects: amplify human-centric scientific processes (let us try to outrun the emerging mechanical industrial ones for however long that will remain possible or necessary)