It starts with an aptitude test. As a candidate for post with National Supervisory Authority, eseinige questions must be answered. For example, which of four EingeblendetenPersonen one is most likely to trust a crime. or wher "AbsoluteWahrheit exists". After test sobering result follows: not passed! Unless you are ready to take test again and adjust answer. Anyone who agrees to this is automatically deemed to be appropriate.
The aptitude test serves as a prologue to Orwell: Ignorance is strength. The PC game (about ten euros) of Hamburger Osmotic Studios One thing is of more and more games, which deal with topics monitoring and fake news. DerVorgänger Orwell was voted best serious game at German computer game award 2017. With Ignorance is strength lays Osmotic Nunnach, game appears in three episodes between February 22nd and March 22nd. For films and series, we are accustomed to providing important Beiträgezur surveillance debate, most recently Citizenfouroder Mr. Robot. But what can specifically contribute to medium of computer games, such as monitoring and manipulation of opinion?
First re would be matter of desperspektiv change. The film The living or shows GDR surveillance apparatus from various sides: The view of a Stasi chief and from point of view of those he listens to. Spectators and spectators do not have a direktenEinfluss on type of presentation, but y have to do with how y siedaraus to draw seen weights. Computer games, on or hand, usually put ir users in BestimmteRollen: those of Border Guard in papers, please, drone pilots in drones, human condition – or even those of monitoring in Orwell.
In best case, Games denSpielern how we fill se roles. Wher you are playing, or a. Wher game allows deviant behavior at all, says a lot about wher makers trust us with ir own opinion. In papers, please may be morally gerechterscheinen, as a border guard, to renounce harsh sanctions such as family separations. Certainly not so easy is question, however, wennmangelndes by grasping at border post with sanctions against its own Familiebelegt. Orwell: Ignorance Isstrength also lets his players know wher y are pushing manhunt for supposed terrorists with full zeal – or wher y are deliberately feeding DieStaatsfeind database with false information. The Führtdann that investigation falters. Or maybe even dieFalschen be arrested.
How do dictatorships address truth?The manhunt orchestrates Orwell: Ignorance is strength as a puzzle game: on government-and government-critical websites SuchenSpieler according to so-called InformationChunks, which are stored in blue and which you can copy into above-mentioned file. Also chat logs and phone calls VerdächtigerPersonen can be evaluate. The fact that such a powerful surveillance system is placed on hands of an entry-level professional is contrived – just as such as in that once-fed information has not through changed. Sometimes players also have to choose between two information that is factually contradictory – text in question is n colored yellow.
As a game, Orwell tries auchkeineswegs to simulate real-world monitoring scenarios. Instead, Esdie sends players to a balancing act between moral decisions and Demkaum to undeniable fun in investigative scavenger hunt.
Orwell exercised skillfully through like dictatorship with truth. Even hiring test clarifies: Will has power, also has truth on his side. If truth is auchbeliebigly bendable, highest point is always welfare of nation. Done and who works for nation, it also defines that he classifies DenNachbarstaat as hostile. For truth construction also always means to exclude what ors have to say. According to this logic, DieKI-manager warns against ZuverlässigeRecherchequellen to classify government-critical media as a weiterenMutmaßungen and heats up his own "search successes" with company.
The first episode deals mainly with surveillance. In episode 2 or 3, players will also have access to canal providing mass media influence. It might be interesting wher and wieOrwell secret research linked to production of fake news. And how players reflect construction of truth and manipulation of opinion.
Date Of Update: 01 March 2018, 12:03
