J20 Protest Simulator

In November 2016, Donald Trump is elected President of the United States on an explicitly authoritarian, racist, and Islamophobic platform. This shocks you out of your Obama-induced slumber. Things are going to hell in the United States. A couple days after the election, you see a dramatic video calling for actions in Washington, DC on […]

Vice, “Flip Over Police Vans and Riot in This New Board Game for Anarchists”

The first time you loot a shopping center in Bloc by Bloc—”The Insurrection Game”—you’ll leave the streets covered in mutinous graffiti. The second time through, you’ll set the buildings ablaze and salt the earth. (Don’t worry, it’s not a huge loss, considering the landmarks on the board include a garment sweatshop, an underfunded junior college, […]

Vice, “This Tabletop Game Forces You To Confront Humanity’s Future Threats”

The game explores the impact of technological changes, addressing genetic modification of humans, artificial intelligence, and non-hierarchical political models (i.e., anarchism). “These sort of decentralized, self-empowered social models are going to be crucial for our species going forward, unless we want to suffer under the induced-scarcity yoke of life-extended capitalists or techno-fascists and their killer […]