Water Cooler Games site

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<div class="IPBDescription">uses of videogames in advertising, politics, education, and other everyday activities, outside the sphere of entertainment</div>While visiting Gamasutra (I do it like once a month), I found out about the site called <a href="http://watercoolergames.org/" target="_blank">Water Coller Games</a>. This site talks about uses of videogames in advertising, politics, education, and other everyday activities, outside the sphere of entertainment. That seams like an interesting reading to see how people think up of ways of passing on informations through the usage of some sort of game media.

Maybe some new game market is going to emerge out of this where programmers will paied to create game medias just to pass informations or educate people ?

What do you think ?

GreyFlcn

I wanted to play the fart game, but it's down ... <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/sad-fix.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":(" border="0" alt="sad-fix.gif" />

Thansal

nifty site.

however, don't forget that these types of games have been around for ages, and not just casual games (though they do dominate the area). Underworld created a HL1 mod to advertise the movie, there is a FPS out there about health or cancer or something (can't remembered atm). And then there are the slew of casual games advertising everything from health ideas, to movies, to fastfood, to breakfast cereals.

DiscoZombie

<a href="http://weebls-stuff.com/" target="_blank">Weebl</a> makes little games for non-traditional audiences all the time. <a href="http://www.wantrespectgame.co.uk/" target="_blank">this one</a> is for teh saef secks.

Liku

<!--quoteo(post=1616279:date=Mar 22 2007, 10:53 AM:name=DiscoZombie)--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(DiscoZombie @ Mar 22 2007, 10:53 AM) [snapback]1616279[/snapback]</div><div class='quotemain'><!--quotec--><a href="http://www.wantrespectgame.co.uk/" target="_blank">this one</a> is for teh saef secks.
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And just like saef secks, it sucks.

Pikminwars

<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qVBerX6Dzmc%20" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qVBerX6Dzmc%20</a>

<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QVS0Uks4ZUw" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QVS0Uks4ZUw</a>

*warning offensive*

Amped1

^^^
Goes with above

<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LkNvQYiM6bw" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LkNvQYiM6bw</a>