Zootycoon-Opel
#notesFromPaper Year : Tags : capitalism Authors: Opel Smith
explores the way environmental messages are portrayed to the public, the tensions between management and labor. Argues from a media as reflection point.
Zoo tycoon allows control over one’s environment. What does it mean about us that we seek out such a game
page 106 has some neat links to games and their interactions with society
games can cause more issues because they involve immersion? In terms of capitalist indoctrination and such
sea world is a material expression of a corporate point of view, a reintepretation of nature and environmental concern, in this husk of a public space
there is distance, as you grow larger, and the animals further away, you see them less as individuals to be learned from, and more as tools that produce money
cheating is encouraged by the game. Capitalists cheat. What does it meaaan
page 16? or 118? has good examples of alternative games that would be far more impactful than zoo tycoon, such as a game where you protect wildlife from poachers
