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A Moose's Love (0 comments)
Play Game >> Age Range Ages 3 and up
Brief Description
A Moose's Love is an allegorical game about a marginalized moose trying to grow his tree of happiness. This was created as an experiment in communicating a message primarily through the rule system.
Release Date 2/1/09Developer Mike Treanor, Teale Fristoe and William Manegold
Project Lead Mike Treanor, Teale Fristoe and William Manegold
Press Coverage
Ian Bogost: http://jag.lcc.gatech.edu/blog/2009/02/practical-matters-in-breaking-newsgames.html
Press Release URLFull Description
A Moose’s Love is an allegorical game about a marginalized moose trying to grow his tree of happiness. This was created as an experiment in communicating a message primarily through the rule system.
The player is tasked with growing a tree which is to represent the happiness that he achieved in his life. The tree requires both water and sunlight to grow. ‘Romancing’ parts the clouds and brings sun, and the player can collect water drops and bring them to the tree.
The challenge comes when the player finds that the amount of sunlight depends on who the player is compelled to be with (which is out of his control). However, the rest of the moose aren’t happy with the pairing and will keep the water from him if he follows his heart.
How can a moose nurture his happiness in a system like this?
Purpose
A Moose’s Love strives to expose the challenging system that homosexual people must face as a result of social and even lawful discrimination (like CA’s gay marriage ban).
The difficulty of winning and even the arguably sad actions that one must take to win express our understanding of the situation and we hope will strike a blow to anyone who hopes to limit the freedom of homosexual people.
The game is our reaction to California’s Proposition 8 passing. It was a shock to us that enough people would misunderstand the situation and this game emphasizes some of the core disagreements: the fact that the player doesn’t control that he is compelled with someone of the same sex and that discrimination does in fact hurt people.
Social Issues/Channels News, Politics, Public Policy Game Tags
newsgame, political, short
Where you can play this game The game can be played by going to this website. http://wingchunsantacruz.com/gamesandart/games/a_mooses_love/
Contacts
General Mike Treanor, micitari@gmail.com
Press Mike Treanor, micitari@gmail.com
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