SPIR608/Games

< SPIR608

Political Simulations and Gaming
Course	Jan - April 2011 at the University of Westminster
Classes	Week 1 Introduction to module \| Week 2 Politics as a game \| Week 3 Military historians and gaming \| Week 4 Game theory and gaming \| Week 5 Cultural theorists and gaming \| Week 6 Russell King from Serious Games \| Week 7 Game design principles: abstraction, competition & realism \| Week 8 Game design principles: iteration, sociability & playability \| Week 9 Guided Independent Study \| Week 10 Tutorials and play-testing of Prototype Political Simulations \| Week 11 Tutorials and play-testing of Prototype Political Simulations \| Week 12 Final assessment of Prototype Political Simulations
Resources	Bibliography \| Games \| London Gaming Clubs \| Weblinks \| Game mechanics \| Components \| Evaluation
Design groups	Law and Disorder \| BRIC \| Sex Slaves \| Clash Of The Titans \| Fight for Libya! \| Election Enmity \| "Nuclear War?" \| Energy Game
This course is run by Dr Richard Barbrook at the University of Westminster

Games on course

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Monopoly:

Landlords Game board based on 1924 patent, precursor of Monopoly

Elizabeth Magie and Charles Darrow

Parker Brothers, 1934

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Game of War:

Guy Debord's Game of War being played in Belo Horizonte, Brazil

Guy Debord and
Alice Becker-Ho

Published as Le Jeu de la Guerre, 1987

Wikiversity Image credit: Richard Barbrook

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1776:

Washington Crossing the Delaware by Emanuel Leutze

Randell Reed

Avalon Hill, 1974
The Game of the Revolutionary War

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Kingmaker:

The death of Warwick at the Battle of Barnet

Andrew McNeil

PhilMar, 1974
Game of the English Wars of the Roses

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The War on Terror:

Andy Tompkins and Andrew Sheerin

TerrorBull Games, 2006
Satirical game of the War on Terror

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Origins of
World War II:

Assembled heads of state in Munich, 29 September 1938

Jim Dunnigan

Avalon Hill, 1971
Based on A. J. P. Taylor's view of the origins of World War II

Wikiversity Image credit: Deutsches Bundesarchiv

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Modern Society:

East End cityscape

Jussi Autio

Wikiversity Image credit: Fabian Tompsett

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Vietnam 1955:

Geneva Peace Conference 1954

Russell King

Serious Games
Role playing game leading up to the Geneva Conference 1954

Wikiversity Image credit: US Army Photograph

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Red Guard!:

Brian Train

Game of the Chinese Cultural Revolution

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Liberté:

Liberté in play, University of Westminster

Martin Wallace

Electoral game of the French Revolution

Wikiversity Image credit: Fabian Tompsett

Other Wikiversity games

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Forbidden Kingdom:

Forbidden Kingdom board ready for play

User:Pnoble805

Wikiversity 2008
Forbidden Kingdom is a simulation of decision making quandries that might be faced in the Communist Party in the People's Republic of China.

Wikiversity Image credit: User:Pnoble805

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