Pervasive games, real life and Barack Obama
Posted by Alex | Posted in Our Thoughts | Posted on 05-11-2008
Gamasutra posted an indepth analysis of the role video games played in 2008 elections. The author Bogost claims that video games weren’t used enough in the last US presidential campaign, and wonders whether games can be a proper election medium at all.
His answer is that games deal with politicking e.g campaigning, instead of politics, the real public policy relationship between the people and their representatives.
Bogost suggest the use of pervasive games which simulate policy making in order to educate people about their world and politics.
That got me thinking: If iTycoon, or a similar game was around for a few years now, could it help preventing the financial crisis we witness today? Maybe if more people were aware of their lives as an economic gameplay field, thinking through the decisions they make, and realising the consequences of buying and selling stuff - perhaps we’d all be in a slightly better place…
Anyway, the iTycoon team wishes the best of luck to Barack Obama, and recognizes the historical significance of this day. Do you think he own an iPhone, BTW? 
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iTycoon on mmtrg.fr
Posted by Yuval Haimovits | Posted in News | Posted on 07-10-2008
The blog that covers the Mobile multilayer trans-reality games industry has wrote about itycoon. Here is a part of the article (Translated from French by google):
iTycoon demo video
Posted by Yuval Haimovits | Posted in Video | Posted on 10-09-2008
In this video we will give you a first glance of how the game actually works. We hope that after watching this you’ll just wanna ask for more:
Pretty cool, ha?
Welcome to iTycoon!
Posted by Yuval Haimovits | Posted in News | Posted on 10-09-2008
Hello and welcome to iTycoon’s homepage. On these days we labor on the development of the application And in this site you will be able to be updated in the status of the progress of creation this game. Here, we will give you close glimpse and glancing to behind the scenes of the process of the creation. Of course that we will be happy to receive from you reactions and your thoughts regarding our application. And in addition we would be grateful if you will be able to help us by sharing our content trough the varied of the social bookmarking services and by donating our project trough PayPal.
And in this note will end: Get ready for the biggest playground ever: iTycoon!
