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Culture & Society

22 May 2012 Culture & Society

More powerful than Merkel: How game designers make laws

How do you get people to voluntarily accept rules? Why are games easy to understand, fun, and encourage cooperative competition? Why are laws complicated, create resistance, and so often seem unfair? Marcel-André Casasola Merkle answered these and other questions in his talk at Republica, “Mächtiger als Merkel: Wie Brettspielentwickler Gesetze machen (würden)”.

31 December 2011 Culture & Society

AKW-Quartett: Nuclear Power is Trump

The more nuclear power plants, the better: that’s the motto of Michael Mieß’s AKW-Quartett from Berlin. In the game, whoever collects reactors diligently wins the round and gains knowledge. Energy giant Eon thinks this is anything but great.

28 October 2011 updated on 16 January 2012 Culture & Society

Board games in the GDR: Resurrected from copies

Trees made of modelling clay, game boards from fridge doors: since West German board games were not available in the GDR, they were simply recreated in the East. Whether “Monopoly”, “Sagaland” or “Malefiz”, all the classics of the class enemy were copied in the state-owned craft rooms.

31 December 2010 Culture & Society

Put minorities in your pocket

Quartets and obscure themes go together like the devil and holy water. They attract each other magically. In the Minorities Quartet by ‘Zeitschrift – das Magazin’, you have to pit marginalised groups against each other to win. If you prefer political correctness, you should put this satire game aside right away.

Culture & Society

More powerful than Merkel: How game designers make laws

AKW-Quartett: Nuclear Power is Trump

Board games in the GDR: Resurrected from copies

Put minorities in your pocket

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