This game is about Metallica and teaches kids about Copyright Infringement and and Digital Piracy. You start the game with a set amount of money and a handful of songs. The more songs you have, the more money you earn per hour. However, you can visit other people's accounts to steal songs from them, and thus they earn less money.
As of right now, on iTunes, there are 150 songs by Metallica, so I see this acting as a sorta kinda trading game, only instead of trading, you are stealing. If you catch someone stealing and can name which songs they stole from you, you earn back your songs and a huge chunk of money from them. In the game, you act as one of Metallica's lawyers, and you can add other lawyers via friends joining you and in-game variables that act as lawyers that can be paid for. If you have enough lawyers, you can prevent some people from stealing your songs, but not all, much like Mafia Wars' battle system.
Though this game is not directly educational, it would demonstrate the approach that certain bands and the RIAA take toward music piracy, and how the consequences outweigh the crime.
Interesting.
ReplyDeleteIt sounds kind of like a music-version of Parking Wars. It's got a similar "try to get away with something while the cat's away" type of mechanic.
It clearly works for Parking Wars, so not a bad mechanic to use!
Although as even you admit, the educational portion of this is your weakest point here. I'd say use that as a starting issue to address for the 2nd strike.
Will do. I purposefully kept it short this week so I could have some leeway for comments like that. Second Assault will focus more on the educational aspect.
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