Politics in Video Games

McDonalds Video Game

By La Molleindustria
An anti-adware game for the fast-food industry.

Political influences in this game.

Management game. Discover big secrets of the companies of the world.
Capitalism based. Exploring the ideas within capitalism within a working business environment.

Impact on society and environment.

Explore the price to pay for being a capitalist: deforestation, livelyhood losses, food poisoning, precariazation of working conditions ect.
Manage the product creation and distribution process as well as money.

4 main sections which constantly run.  Farms, feed lots, resteraunt and the headquarters.

Deforest for the farms.
Overindulge cows. ect.

Made to question big corporate policies.

Balance of Power

Inspired by Cold War. Simulation of Geopolitics where player must prevent a nuclear holocaust.

US vs Russia.

Player must be as powerful as possible after 8 years in office. Diplomacy, treaties, military force... big red button..

Player must gain maximum prestige in order to avoid nuclear war.

The player is presented with a set of incidents and crisis in various countries around the globe and must choose a responce to each one. The player can choose between no action, diplomancy or military action.

Each responce is met with a counter which vary from backing down to escalation. Then the player must deal with the responce.

When you back down, you lose prestige which will effect the player politically. Brinkmanship results in global war.