>watch?v=lCq8V2EhYs0

Was it really that time consuming to include the full address?

>>14754121
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lCq8V2EhYs0
Not OP, posting link before I devolve inHUURRK HURRR HURRR

>>14754121
Nice table and if we take the kids out maybe it could be a fun game

>>14754434

Anyone know how to play this game? It sounds horribly complex for a game 4th graders play

I would love this game to be mass produced.

http://www.wimp.com/peacegame/
Better explination of the game

I think the point is that there are no rules. It's a social experiment to see what kind of organization arises.

>>14754121
>"There must be a way we can use this volcano- use this eruption- and make something GOOD out of it!"

sounds like Diplomacy on steroids

>game
>no rules
>4th graders playing it

>A group of classmates you don't like reject your porposals.
"TODAY IS THE DAY OUR REICH WILL UNITE THE WORLD UNDER ONE BANNER AND END WAR WITH WAR.", I slowly turn to face my Parliamentary team and feed off the fearful and scorn ridden faces of the rest of the world, "TODAY. WE START WITH THE NUKING OF 'YOUR' CAPITAL. ALL AIRFORCE UNITES SLATE TO BOMB MAJOR PRODUCTION OUTPUTS AND BY THE TIME OUR TREADS REACH THE CAPITAL. IT WILL BE RUINS."
"SEIG HEIL."

"New crisis. No idea how you're gonna get out of it, but you'll probably manage."

The teacher is god in that game.

>>14755578
And on that point, he's a better DM than most and the kids working together to acheive common goals are better tabletop players than most.

lol, yeah, especially the 3rd grader doing trillion dollar transactions with the high schoolers

Time for a Coup d'Etat.

...This is required in their curricula? Elementary/Highschool students take this as mandatory in their education?

>>14755661
From seeing the interviews I think this is more an afterschool activity

>>14755686
I would have licked balls for a /tg/-related afterschool activity like this in K-12 school.

...Probably would have made things a lot less lonely. And made me more socially adequate.

And fuck, I lived in a relatively well-to-do US school district.

Fuck, now I would like to try and set this up at my university next fall. Like Model UN but with rules.

I'm pretty sure we wouldn't succeed in solving it...

>>14755716

I don't think there are any rules or dice. It seems to be entirely negotiations. He doesn't explain combat at all except to say that when you lose troops you have a write a letter to the family offering your condolences.

>>14755735
Yeah, but there seems to be at least some kind of framework of what can and can't happen and consequences of certain actions. F'rex in the speech he mentions that since a girl captured an enemy nation's oil-reserves their forces couldn't attack. Dice are not necessary for rules.

>>14755709
One school i attended taught roleplaying and larping and you'd sign up for the whole school year.

>FeltGoodMan.jpg

>>14755716
>>14755709
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0_UTgoPUTLQ Longer video with the teacher. Apparently one of his classes managed to solve global warming. Also, I wish he talked more about the mechanics of the game

>>14755716
That's basically what this is Model UN with nuclear weapons and more control over the country you're representing

>>14755181
Rules are -
There are 4 nations, with a Parliment Leader (Tema Leader) a Financial Minister, Defense Minister and a few other key ministers, such as culture, evironment, etc.

Each round is one game day, with policy being decided upon the end of the round, and new policies taken affect at the start of the next turn.

There are 50 interlocking problems that have to be solved before the end of the game, which is about 17 weeks

>>14755686
At the school where my niece goes it is a part of the weekly schedule. The classes play twice a week during the post lunch break class period.

And then when she gets home from school I babysit and we play D&D minis.

>>14755776

there is also one player who is secretly the Traitor out to stop everyone from winning

>>14755811
You mean...?

>>14755811
I would have loved to have this role as a kid... or be someone to mess with various elements as the game went forth.

I've always been a diabolical person in games like this, even as a kid. It would have been fun.

>>14755902

Rules.DO.WANT!

anyone know where I can get it? I dont care if I have to pay for it, I just want it!

I think this would be a blast to run at my local gaming shop as a side game! : D

>>14756071

I don't think so. This isn't a commercial venture. I think the teacher just runs it after school on his own time.

>>14756071

There are no gameplay rules, really. There are goals to be had, some fifty in total from what I've seen. That's about it.

>>14756083

Then I will find his Email and ask him personally.

Even if I must like and pretend to be a fellow teacher!

>Inb4 everyone in the game wants to be the Traitor

>>14756130

Post them if you do, but make sure you get permission to distribute if you can.

My friend is a teacher, maybe I can get him to run this. I do live in VA, and this guy lives in VA. Maybe he'd be open to sharing the game with my friend since we're sort of local.

Stories from our future elegan/tg/entlemen!
By Student Blogger:

Mr. Hunter congratulated us on surviving so many natural disasters. More than anybody else who has played!!!

Wow! The Saboteur revealed HIMSELF today! That has never happened before. He knew that everyone was close to figuring out that he was the saboteur, so he surrendered himself!!! It was the CEO of the World Bank!

How they handle THAT GUY
Game Update: Censure Tribunal Held
Game Day 3

Today we are having the first ever, censure tribunal, for M. H. He had gotten sent out of his country for talking out of turn and disturbing others, and acting not in the spirit of the game. But he does not have a very good defense speech. It was a very poor fight to return to his place in the game, I think.

His first sentence was… “Yes, I have been talking out of turn, but I think that if the weather god had not fined me ($10 million) I would not be out of the game right now. If he not only focused on me but also fined everybody who was breaking a rule, then our country would have not gotten fined so much, so heavily.”

Now, we are having a vote on his return to the game; return or no return. The results are………………… he is back in the game in his old job as Secretary of State of Ujinosato, with a warning and a reminder from the UN! The other cabinets of other nations gave him a big break, and he got a second chance. He is real quiet now! Maybe he will work for real now.

– T.B

Email Sent!

Game Update: Cyptian Space Ships Caught on the Edge of a Black Hole
An unknown party is about to attack Cyptus’ capital. Ojinosato is attempting to save both Cyptian space ships caught on the edge of a black hole, and succeeded on one. And then a flood hit them and forced nuclear waste into Ujinosato’s major river. Farmlands on the banks are contaminated . If the waste gets down to the bay, it will kill the fishing industry!

No change in the stock market and fair weather today. Right now it is planning and negotiation time and some of Ms. Williams’ 3rd grade is visiting and watching .

No fines yet but yesterday we had 3 in a row and to the same country too! Now it is The country called Tajavu’s turn and everybody has 30sec to get back to their seats or they will get a fine. And all four countries are having a coin toss over the middle island. and its oil reserves. It is not owned by anyone when oil was found, and the UN hasn’t decided the ownership yet!

Today in the WPG we found life and death. Did the richest country in the world (Ujinosato) become poorer than the poorest country (Icesadia) in the world? We’ll find out on this blog! We the WPG gamers have SOLVED 10 CRISES in 2 TURNS WOW!

Now let me tell you a secret that only 5 gamers know. Icesavian has decided to get the World Bank involved with the Icesavian CFO, Mr. P.K. They will probably hire a WB staff person as a bookkeeper to help the CFO out. They have so much money now from going into food processing. They make and sell the plants to other countries. They may now be the richest country, and they were the poorest!!

The Cyptus leader A.J., has been getting notes from THE SECRET EMPIRE! (It acts a lot like North Korea!) The notes said “Hand over the killer satellite or else…”

The Prime Minister felt scared about it, when Mr. Hunter interviewed her, she said. “ I want to find out who this ‘SECRET EMPIRE’ is and attack…I think”. Mr. Hunter asked her if she had made contact with them to negotiate, of she would attack without trying to talk first.

WOW! A strong watch out to you, Secret Empire, here comes Cyptus!

Thank you for reading the WPG Blog. – J. S.

By Student Blogger G. N.

Three days in the week makes me happy. They are the days we play the WorldPeace Game!

Today, Ujinosato made an attack on the UN-protected orange island with the
oil reserves on it. Their combat caused the oil reserves to catch fire and
made an ecological disaster in the region!! The Random god said cleanup will
be $400,000,000 a day!!!!!! That’s a lot of their budget, plus they had a
tsunami hit their coast, AND they lost $50,000,000 in the stock market!!!
They are in big trouble now!!! What are we going to do now? Everything was
being solved a lot the last time we played.

Oh, and our friend from Norway, Erik skyped in and watched the game from
Bergen. Our student “Skype Manager, T.B. took the laptop around so Erik
could see the action up close. It looked like T.B. was carrying around a
head with no body! Fuunnnnny! Erik was nice and asked us questions about the
game.

T.B. also sits with a computer in the game and people go to him to look up
information and get advice sometimes. He has to write what he finds into a
“white paper” to give to them to help their problem. (Mr. Hunter said there
are different colors of diplomatic papers; red, black, blue, too I think.—-)

>>14755776
Clearly you have never been in a MUN Crisis Committee. In those, you are basically the absolute monarch of your country and can do as you please with it.

Though sometimes you only control PART of a country, like the Time I was General Johannesburg Viljoen of the south african Republic during the Boer War crisis Committee, which as I recall, ended with a massive rebellion in British territory instigated by our agents (Ireland and Scotland both rose up) and WWI beginning Early

We played a similar game, though far less involved and awesome, in one of our classes.

The class was divided into eight groups of between two and five (or six), and each given various amounts of raw materials (paper of different colors) and industry (scissors). The objective was to make as many high value products by the end. They were high value if they were awkward shapes that used rare colors and more than one color.

So some of the teams had lots of scissors, some had none. Some had lots of players, some had none. Some had lots of paper, some had none. And we were given the two free classes to do this while the teacher that had us walked around and made judgement's on any disputes between teams or players, or approved of players switching teams, or whatever.

It was fairly awesome, but we only got to play it once. The winners were a team of 2 players, six scissors and no paper. They traded three scissors for paper and an extra player early on, and then just sat in the corner making shapes. They even traded the player and one scissors back at the end when they ran out of paper, so the immigrant didn't get the rewards of his labor! The rest of the game outside them was a mess of alliances, stolen scissors, ripped shapes, players betrayals, secret caches, and so on. The teacher usually arbitrated on the side of the wronged party, but if he didn't see what was going on, he couldn't help. And this was a feature, not a bug, or so he said.

Great fun.

>school kids playing /tg/ civ games
>encouraged by their teacher
>fuck, it's their teacher who brings the game

>>14756505
Sir, if I may ask, how old were you when you played this type of game? The reason I pose this question is because, reading from the thread, I am exceedingly surprised 4th graders can pull of games of this complexity.

>>14756208
WAIT I LIVE IN VA TOO
WTF

>>14756599
This was in Highschool. They had no interesting clubs up till that point.

>>14756619
Another Viginian here as well

If you watch the whole talk, the class is for gifted students, not everyday classroom rabble.

>>14756505
The MUNs i've been in are usually divided up into seperate delegations, with the delegate groups coming together. There is no actual invasion of country X, as there is in this game. One of the examples was (basically) Poland invaded Germany and secured key resources. You just don't get that in MUN

>>14756697
Another crisis committee, can't remember the starting scenario, But North Korea re-united the Korean peninsula through an invasion before firing nukes everywhere.

Standard format, yeah not real interesting. Crisis Committees though are hella interesting, faster paced, more chaotic, and yeah you CAN invade to secure resources

>>14756599
Dude, I was playing ASL with full rules when I was 9. I think these kids can handle an absrtact political game.

That said, <f5> like a motherfucker, I want the rules...

>>14756731
Its not real invasion. Its just "we wrote this paper saying we are going to do X." the crisis usually comes at the end and you never see how the changes effect the total outcome.

This game however, is more like 50-interlocking goals, and the crises aren't pre-generated, but player generated. Also, the delegations are constantly talking to one another and plotting, instead of being in different rooms and working our their issues independently.

Don't get me wrong, MUN and MAL are fun, just I think this does it better. Lucky 4th graders.

wow. Got an email back already! : D

I will post it in a min, it has both good and bad news!

Thank you so much for your kind words and your interest in my work. It is particularly affirming when others feel that this activity has merit. Yay for Role Play! When we were in Norway with the film, we met a fellow who became a dear friend, who actually had a role-play firm that helps corporations and governmental institutions resolve problems using role play, "larps".

Here's what's happening and possible right now: the film's producer, Chris Farina and I are currently enjoying an overwhelming response to the film and the game, (particularly after the recent TED Talk in California), with near-constant travel here in the states and abroad. There are some plans in the works to extend the use of the game and the embedded principles, as the film festival schedule winds down, late-2011.

>>14756899
I am currently partnering with the University of Virginia's Darden Business School

http://www.darden.virginia.edu/web/Media/Darden-News-Articles/2010/Founder-of-World-Peace-Game-Named
-Fellow-of-Dardens-Center-for-Global-Initiatives/

to explore a number of options including; replication of the game for sale, virtual/internet-based development, training seminars for teachers who wish to conduct the game, and presentations, consultations, workshops, on my methods, etc. Creating this infrastructure would likely take some months at the very least, so I would not anticipate availability of the game commercially, for some time. I have thought about "open-sourcing" it, or simply putting a basic manual out there, but worry that without the core principles engendered by the facilitator, it might just devolve into another war game. Also, I'm not sure adults could play it well, as too much knowledge, a too well developed concept of self (unlike young kids) can actually get in the way of a really good experience. Maybe. Not sure yet.

>>14756918
Here are what has been required for playing this game.
Students who play:

1. possess a certain "intellectual stamina" and can wrestle with tough problems over time

2. can interact constructively with others much different from themselves (diversity as much as possible)

3. can forestall closure, and handle the certain frustrations of endless challenges and conflicts as they collaborate to achieve peace.

The Game is not for every student. It was designed for high-ability, and gifted populations.

I'm afraid that there is no paper manual. I have finally begun setting down a manual for a publisher, as it has existed only in my head all this time. (I usually pass it on, in a kind of oral tradition to generations of players at the beginning of every game!).

>>14756929
To really "learn" how to play it though, requires observing a number of game sessions. The game play is completely different every time! (This is where on-site, or video training may come in, in the future.) The game is immensely complex (deliberately so) with well-over 50 interlocking, local and global problems, and new ones popping up every round of play! Normally I allot 3-hours to simply explain to new students how the game works, and the dossier/manuals I give them, are about 30-40 pages long! It takes 6-12 weeks to play depending on many factors.The Game's duration is not that predictable, and so requires a schedule which can allow such flexibility. I designed it to optimally accommodate 25-35 player over that amount of time. The structure itself claims almost a quarter of a typical classroom, and so unfortunately many teachers would find it almost impossible, (in light of the usual array of curriculum demands) to give over that much space and time to one (albeit multidisciplinary) project.

I will be hosting an Academy where 2, time-compacted, 1-week sessions of the game will be played, hosted on the University of Virginia campus here in Charlottesville, Virginia. For the first time other teachers and adults seeking to learn how to play/facilitate the game, will be observing and workshopping with me each day to explore the possibility of learning the game.

I hope the above has been some help. I wish I had more to offer now, but maybe in the near future more will be possible.

Sincerely,

John

> I'm afraid there is no paper manual
> I pass it on in a kind of oral tradition
> teaching generations of players
> since 1978

>>14756491
GM i.e. "Random God / Stock Market / etc..." really railroaded them for making that choice. Wowzers.

>>14756981
One of the kids controls the stock market

>>14756941
>>14756929
>>14756918
>>14756899

Nice with such fast response, the guy really sounds like a great guy. It really sounds interesting, would've been nice with some more info on the crisises.

And even though it is aimed for kids, it sure would be interesting to try it with a group of university students, if for no other reason than to see the impossiblity of it.

>>14756981
I'm not sure they use the random god as a "GM" the way we understand it - if anything, it is likely just one of the players among.... 25-35? Albeit with different roles and powers. Though I dunno, to be honest. fuck. WE NEED THOSE DOSSIERS AND MANUALS

4th Grade: TOTAL WAR

>>14756454
Am I the only one who is wondering why they have space ships and black holes in a modern type UN game?

"So Timmy what did you learn in class today?"
"I learned that Jimmy and Jhonny have blood feud and that I can make more money if I sell weapons to both of them and increase long term profits by discouraging diplomacy"

>>14757074
Son.....
I am proud.......jpg

>>14757074
Good job son. I hope you also remembered to encourage tensions in neighboring areas that could boil over into outright warfare, thus increasing your profits

>>14757074
Did Jimmy call Jhonny a fart head again?
Can't blame him for calling blood feud.

Archiving for interest
http://suptg.thisisnotatrueending.com/archive/14754121/
>>vellywo school
you are creepy, capcha.

This is bullshit. The children are probably forced to find their ideal situation for world peace instead of pursuing self interest.

There's a higher power involved with an agenda and a bias!

Just sent another Email, asking for a little info about the space level of the game, what kinds of things can be done there, and how they can influence the game as a whole : 3

>>14757198
I think the goals depend on the 50 problems generated by the players. One of the videos had a girl start a preemptive war on another country which she guessed was going for world domination - the use of force, and its organized form in war, may be used in a 'world peace' game.

It would make for a hilarious session to have some extreme genius and tactician who would manufacture and orchestrate the downfall of all other countries. They would decay to the point that armed resistance was very minimal, and then this grand schemer would sweep in and purge all other, claiming land for their own nation.

LET THE EARTH TREMBLE AT OUR APPROACH. LET THEM FEAR US, BROTHERS! GLORY TO THE EMPEROR!

>>14757350
And so world peace was finally achieved, and the unity of the human race was finally realized.

Hey, as long as it solves the world peace game's goals, right?

>>14757379
>World peace
>Achieved through complete global domination

PEACE THROUGH POWER! PEACE THROUGH POWER!

>in 7th grade
>history class learning about the civil war
>teacher assigned each student a civil war general to do a report on.
>in addition each of us would play as the general in a game of Risk on a board of 1860s US.
>get assigned to the Confederacy
>bro and I team up and run around behind enemy lines ransacking Yankee scum towns and destroying supply lines the entire game.
>south eventually wins due to our campaign of destruction.
Best history teacher ever.

>We're not going to attack you!
>Yeah well, Kaiden said you would!
>KAIDEN WE'RE NOT GOING TO ATTACK THEM
>I know, it's called a threat. Get over it.


Kaiden confirmed traitor / future Dictator.

> without the core principles engendered by the facilitator, it might just devolve into another war game
> devolve

We are this close to making the world awesome though the use of traditional games!

HE NEEDS TO PUBLISH A MANUAL, NOW.

>>14756918
>I am currently partnering with the University of Virginia's Darden Business School
HOLY SHIT HE'S AT (a sub-school of) MY SCHOOL

>>14757103
"Yeah! And then I taught Jhonny a new swear word he can use against Jimmy in exchange for his extensive oil reserves!"

The "core principles" as listed by Mr. John Hunter
http://theworldpeacegame.com/

1) Contradictory elements can and should co-exist

2) Deliberate creation of an overwhelming sense of diverse complexity or fostering, in other words…chaos

3) Encouragement of complex problem solving in a collaborative situation

4) Stimulate the development of empathy and compassion

5) Promote the ability to hold and maintain multiple perspectives simultaneously, around an issue while withholding judgment

6) Slowing down the problem solving process, provides:
a) Depth over time – Stimulation of and support for long term thinking
b) Increase in possible solutions
c) Richness (complexity)

7) Promote critical thinking via:
a) Apprehending the natural inherent complexity and simplicity mixture
b) Directly engaging with complexity vs. avoiding or parsing
c) Promoting non-attachment to phenomena as useful tool

8) Reveal personal inherent skills

9) Team-based solutions formed by deliberate pressures (i.e. deadlines), and a sense of urgency

10) The ability to cultivate and maintain acute problem solving skills over time

11) Facilitate Self-Reflective awareness through Self-Evident Assessment (SEA) (internalized evaluation)

12) Creation of a reflective thinking log to follow personal exploration of the process of mind habits

13) Show, understand, and appreciate the value of non-measurable outcomes.

14) Extrapolation of actions/reactions in multiple directions/levels at once

15) No experts
16) Luxury to fail
17) Flexibility
18) Elaboration

>>14757542
"Then I taught Jimmy a different swear word in exchange for the rights to his diamond and gold mines!"

Someone needs to do an (even more) grimdark version of this game...

This...is...AMAZING. ARRGG. I wanna be a teacher just so I could spread the love!

>>14757589
bahaahaha what if a teacher ran an unwinnable version for a bunch of fourth graders? It would inevitably end in:
a) all but one country eliminated, and that one a totalitarian dictatorship
b) all countries annihilated by nuclear war
c) civilization wiped out by weaponized viruses
d) ecological collapse and an essentially inhospitable earth

>>14757650

"Only one remains in the end, ALL HAIL THE GOD-EMPEROR, BILLY!"

>>14756965
>>14756929

>he calls it The Game

I want to know if the Third Party who drone-struck the world bank was, in fact, the saboteur.

Striking himself to create an economic crisis he would benefit from through third party alliances and deflect suspicion on himself?

Brilliant!

I'd love to run and/or play this. It's simply magnificent.

>>14757670
Though I have lost my land, my hopes and my people, I will not allow you to rule, "God-Emperor" Billy.

COME AT ME BRO

>>14757741
Now now, we can still work this out.
Let's negotiate, shall we?

>>14757512
Sign up for the course, learn the workings of the game. Then us fa/tg/uys will finally take over the world (peacefully)

>>14757795
>Take over the world
>Peacefully
>/tg/
If by peacefully you mean A) The Pax Imperialis B) Five rounds rapid C) Zombie Skynet or D) Tarrasque Emperor then yeah, we'll do it peacefully

>>14757794
Are you suggesting a compromise, imperial puppet?

>captcha: ax werri
>Thank you, captcha. No doubt this will be useful information.

Bump for interest

Anyone wanna share /tg/ stories in school while we wait for the email response?

Sadly, I have none.

>>14758123
buuuuuuuuump

The hopes of future /tg/enerations lie in this threaad!

Shit like this is why I simultaneously hated and loved Haven & Hearth more than any other mmo I'd ever touched.

>>14758826

No reply yet for the 2nd email. I expect I'll see one tomorrow.

I want to know about the space portion soooo much.

>>14758899
We will wait for further updates, kind anon, thank you for the updates and the email

Bumpan. Grindan.

That really is amazing. That's an incredible teaching tool. I wish we'd had something like that in my gifted program.

Of course /tg/ doesn't seem to get it (or is being purposefully obtuse, hard to tell at times).

>>14758899

me too.
SPAAAAAAAAAAAACCCCCCCCCCCCCCEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!

I'll never play this game. Thats sad.

Also, kind of reminds me of the Great Game from that Culture Novel. I wish that game was real

So you win by destroying your opponents, raping their women and destroying their cities?
Doesn't sound much like "world peace" to me

>>14763350

no, the win conditions are:
resolve all 50 interlocking crisis
every nation must have more money than it started with

>>14763350
Peace through superior firepower.

BOW BEFORE KAIN, MASTER OF ALL.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iOC0mrmIjHo&NR=1
The Rules.
Sorta

Observations on The Game, please feel free to add/edit:
50 interlocking problems, which have to be solved, without combat if possible
4 countries ‘pitted’ against each other – psychologically, ethically, economically, and so on (Mr. Hunter does not mention religion, but that probably falls under ethics). It is a political simulation game, and Mr. Hunter seems to stress that combat is only done unless it is absolutely necessary.
4 platforms in The Game
1) Undersea level – including submarine warfare
2) Ground and Sea level – Where most operations take place, including cities, tanks, naval ships, and so on
3) Aircraft level – which includes aircraft, and weather which is controlled by a random god, apparently
4) Space level – which includes a black hole, “killer” and research satellites students can invest in, space ships, asteroid mining

The dossier/manuals are about 30-40 pages long (We don’t know how many there are), but I don’t think this is a problem, despite Mr Hunter’s exclamation over the length, because I find /tg/ normally inclined towards details

>>14765340

It takes 6-12 weeks to play depending on many factors – perhaps due to the complexity of the game, rather than the students not being able to understand its mechanics

The Game is designed to accommodate 25-35 players (which is a shitload of people to manage for only FOUR countries) with each of the players assigned a role. As to the details of these roles, some of them seem very clear cut while others are not. There is one Traitor in the game, whose job is simply to sabotage everything while trying to seem he/she is trying to help. There is a random god who controls weather, a separate one (?) who controls the stock market, and the rest are ministers who manage a specific aspect of their assigned country (I suppose this number is arbitrary depending on the number of players).

>>14765348

Each game is played differently: Mr Hunter seems to stress this particularly, as some games seem to involve space endeavors (black holes and spaceships) and military engagements (9 year old girl with tanks lol), while other games seem to be more inclined to the fiscal and monetary aspects of The Game (probably loans, interest, World Bank maneuvering). The best analogy I can think of atm is where the DM (and the players, hopefully) decide what kind of game they want to play – more focused on hack and slash, or perhaps involving the more social aspects of pen and paper – of course The Game seems far more complex than this, and its likely it may have all the elements involved in civ like games in just one playthrough.
I have to stress again that The Game accomodates 25-35 players. Anything less (say 10-15) seems to undermine one of The Game’s core mechanics; it seems to thrive on complexity, and chaos. The number of players is where the political simulation really shines I think (and honestly, I worry this is where /tg/ may have problems trying to emulate).

>>14765352
35 players is a whole fucking lot ingame terms. At least for us, that only communicate around here, anonymously and separated by kilometers.

>>14765383
Agreed. I think this is where a classroom setup works in terms of increasing complexity. Not only do you have a wide amount of players, you have a wide VARIETY of players, not just the particular sort of elegan/tg/entlemen we have on this board.

>>14765412
Damn lucky fourth graders ;_;

Shota...shota everywhere.

>>14765412
In my 4th grade clas-HECK-In my 9th grade class a few kids would have gone to the nursery without an eye or two.

>>14757556
>Deliberate creation of an overwhelming sense of diverse complexity or fostering, in other words…chaos
>in other words…chaos
>chaos
LET THE GALAXY BURN! LET THE HEAVENS BLEED!

THREAD! I COMMAND YOU TO LIVE!

*Charging up thread-revival paddles*
CLEAR!

>>14765572
Not the anon you were responding to, but

>The Game is not for every student. It was designed for high-ability, and gifted populations.

This is the tricky part. It's sometimes difficult enough to get a good group going for roleplaying games. It'll likely be even more problematic getting the desired number of players to play through the game, assuming standard duration of 6 weeks.

sure is enders game in here.