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Tag: capitalism

21.1.2026

Furnace, Monopoly and the Player Experience of Capitalism

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12.12.2022

The Game of Life version 2021 - A depiction of American capitalism in living, working, and retiring

Experiencing the future of life in the capitalist world by playing activities with money and seeing the consequence of what the capitalist world answers to players' decision

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28.2.2022

Destroy global supply chains with a mouse click: Innocent Passage review

Innocent Passage is a game about processes of adaptation and cascading failure in global supply chains. It allows us to think about how the world might be changed through our collective.

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13.8.2020

Soda Machines – A Mere Symbols of Refreshment or Representations of Our Capitalistic Reality

Soda machines in video games contain purposes of consumerism, aesthetic, ludic, and narrative, to enhance players' presence. Furthermore, they fortify the consumerist values of modern capitalism.

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26.4.2016

Theming videogames

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