Placing news inside a game Thread

Hello,

Does anyone heard about "news inside a game" concept ?
*Full integration* of real world news inside a game.

In the last years we read news about players, interests ,moves and winners.
There is a better way to see the world, using a real game.

Imagine you have a site like Cnn or Foxnews that delivers the world news as a real working game.
The world and players are not fictional but real.
The CIA, China's central bank, Al-Qaeda, Putin, Asad, Google, are the players.

I believe that we can better understand how the world operates by using the principles ( working knowledge) of game design, physics, logic, navigation.

En.wikipedia.org

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Simulation is the imitation of the operation of a real-world process or system over time.[1] The act of simulating something first requires that a model be developed; this model represents the key characteristics or behaviors/functions of the selected physical or abstract system or process. The model represents the system itself, whereas the simulation represents the operation of the system over time.
Simulation is used in many contexts, such as simulation of technology for performance optimization, safety engineering, testing, training, education, and video games. Often, computer experiments are used to study simulation models. Simulation is also used with scientific modelling of natural systems or human systems to gain insight into their functioning.[2] Simulation can be used to show the eventual real effects of alternative conditions and courses of action.

Developing a game takes time. If we wanted to represent a new real event in a playable form we could for sure do it but when we finished developing the game the event wouldn't be "new" anymore. Also in my opinion the best way to get informed for the latest world events is by reading articles from trustworthy websites. Representing an event or fact through a game or a movie is a pretty childish way of explaining what happened, adults should be able to understand and judge something just by raw information and not by information that has been alternated by the person who did the representation.

It is not about developing a game based on one event.

But designing a context that gives meaning to the events.

Why do I have the feeling this is a bot?

Moderators, please remove the post.

I like the idea, its not original.. look at FIFA using the REAL football leagues and all the thrills and spills within their game.. the only problem is translating the real time events into game elements, say a celebrity dies, its very different from a financial crash or ISIS lopping the head off some poor soul again. How would you represent each story within the game? would they be as SImPLE as headlines attached to little space invaders and killing them lets you READ the full story.. or is it as complex as creating some kind of ongoing adventure where the latest news affects the way the game goes?? its incredibly ambitious.. but so was space invaders at one point

The way to translate real time events to game elements is to build a context.

The idea is not to see shootings on the screen but to see changes in structure which have meaning.

Movement
Alignment
Connection
Direction
Position

War is collision between forces.
Politics is change or move to another position.

ISIS is more extreme then al qaeda which mean they position themselves after or in front al qaeda.

In order to be the first you have to move to the center position or move to the extreme position ( The logic behind ISIS extreme actions ).

United states wants Iran to be in full ALIGNMENT with international law.

Coalition forces GO INTO ACTION to REMOVE ISIS FROM POWER.

Player wants to ADVANCED TO POWER.

Alexander the great replaced the world VALUES with Greece values.

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The game is not about shootings and graphics, it is about the mechanism of reality.

Reality = Real game

UNITY
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ISIS+Al-Nusra Front? Islamists reportedly join forces, new threat against West issued

Rt.com

Putin’s long game? Meet the Eurasian Union

Bostonglobe.com...

Theguardian.com...

SUPREMACY
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ISIS, al-Qaeda compete for supremacy in global jihad

Al-monitor.com...

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MORE EXPLANATION
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The known way or current model is "gamethenews".
Gamethenews.net
Impactgames.com
En.wikipedia.org

- Based on traditional journalism
- focusing on the content
- instead reading an article you play a game.
- Games are based on current events and therefore loose interest fast.
- Every game tells about just a single event.
- Actions and results are not real
- chosen by the players.

There is another way which might be the better one :
The new model
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- News website that delivers real world events in a game format.
- The players are the world leaders and their actions and results are real.
- Every news-item is a part in the puzzle or a single system event.
- Every event is one movement in the game.
- There is a big story which connects all the events together and gives the meaning.
- The context is the most important, not the content.
- A model which puts the events in a context and gives them a logical explanation.

More reading :

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