(Dec. 8) -- If some people see WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange as a James Bond figure, then why shouldn't he, like Ian Flemming's fictitious spy, get his own video game?
A game developer and blogger called "Gnome" has put out the call to the independent video game development community to begin the creation of what he calls "WikiLeaks Stories," which he hopes will become a series of games based on WikiLeaks cables, Julian Assange and anything else relating to the international media organization. In the true Wiki spirit, the project isn't going to be limited to one developer, or one game.
As the market for easily digestible, simple games on platforms like Xbox Live or the iPhone has developed in recent years, games about the news have been appearing with more frequency. During the height of the BP oil spill, developer Super Boise Games released "Crisis in the Gulf," where players could use submarines and bombs to keep oil from reaching the surface of the water. The financial crisis also saw a spate of news games, like "Bailout: The Golden Parachute" or "Bailout Wars."
Gnome is already at work on what he calls "interactive fiction," a text-based game. Just what else the community will come up with remains to be seen, but it's likely that we'll see a number of games where the player tries to get leaks out to the world despite government censorship efforts.
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WikiLeaks, the Video Game
Dec 8, 2010 – 1:15 PM
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