Comments on: PeaceMaker…the game… http://yazeez.com/peacemakerthe-game/ Mon, 08 Sep 2008 07:22:04 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.2.1 By: kevin http://yazeez.com/peacemakerthe-game/#comment-22093 kevin Sun, 25 Mar 2007 20:06:46 +0000 http://yazeez.com/peacemakerthe-game/#comment-22093 Asi, I totaly agree with you. I have been disappointed by the same sentence you pointed out. I will not write what you already wrote by add something. It's weird and very disappointing that it seems to be a status quo that if you give money, it's good and can help "really" do something to solve the problem and that we almost never read about culture and its implications. For instance, only a few people realize that sending money to poor african countries is far from being a help for the population (I exagerate a bit but not a lot). In fact, depending the case, local government keep the money and don't distribute it, local government is so badly organized that it just can't distribute the money, etc. For this example, it's obvious that giving african countries the possibilities of changing/inscreasing their political systems/governments, stopping the support of dictators (a speciality of France, the country where I'm from. I mean,ther's almost nobody in France that knows that our government support a big lot of dictators in Africa...) will do a much more than sending money. It will be a help to send money, after doing such changes. So, definitely, spending 20 bucks (which is a low price) to be better informed about the israelo-palestinian problem and better understand the situation is at least as good as sending those 20bucks. And it's better than spending 50bucks in some tatical wargames (american vs blablabla terrorist, yeah! what a realistic vision of the world...) Asi, I totaly agree with you. I have been disappointed by the same sentence you pointed out. I will not write what you already wrote by add something. It’s weird and very disappointing that it seems to be a status quo that if you give money, it’s good and can help “really” do something to solve the problem and that we almost never read about culture and its implications. For instance, only a few people realize that sending money to poor african countries is far from being a help for the population (I exagerate a bit but not a lot). In fact, depending the case, local government keep the money and don’t distribute it, local government is so badly organized that it just can’t distribute the money, etc. For this example, it’s obvious that giving african countries the possibilities of changing/inscreasing their political systems/governments, stopping the support of dictators (a speciality of France, the country where I’m from. I mean,ther’s almost nobody in France that knows that our government support a big lot of dictators in Africa…) will do a much more than sending money. It will be a help to send money, after doing such changes.
So, definitely, spending 20 bucks (which is a low price) to be better informed about the israelo-palestinian problem and better understand the situation is at least as good as sending those 20bucks. And it’s better than spending 50bucks in some tatical wargames (american vs blablabla terrorist, yeah! what a realistic vision of the world…)

]]> By: Asi http://yazeez.com/peacemakerthe-game/#comment-16054 Asi Mon, 12 Feb 2007 19:00:12 +0000 http://yazeez.com/peacemakerthe-game/#comment-16054 Full disclosure: I am one of the developers of the game (an Israeli btw). An interesting post and thanks for mentioning our game. If I may, I would like to reply to the following comment: "should be really given out for charity". It is really odd in my eyes that people can't support a positive video game to promote peace that tries to sustain itself as a business. The main reason we could transfer the game from a university project to a high quality product was our success in obtaining a private investment. How come people oppose a business with social aspirations and they have no objections to violent video games being sold all over the world or worse- companies making a buck by producing weapons? If "peace" will stay the domain of non-profit organizations, my concern is that we will stay a niche and we won't be able to convince any main stream company to follow this positive route. Asi Full disclosure: I am one of the developers of the game (an Israeli btw). An interesting post and thanks for mentioning our game.

If I may, I would like to reply to the following comment: “should be really given out for charity”. It is really odd in my eyes that people can’t support a positive video game to promote peace that tries to sustain itself as a business. The main reason we could transfer the game from a university project to a high quality product was our success in obtaining a private investment. How come people oppose a business with social aspirations and they have no objections to violent video games being sold all over the world or worse- companies making a buck by producing weapons? If “peace” will stay the domain of non-profit organizations, my concern is that we will stay a niche and we won’t be able to convince any main stream company to follow this positive route.
Asi

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