{"id":26566,"date":"2010-04-05T19:48:00","date_gmt":"2010-04-05T19:48:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/being-the-bad-guys-as-molleindustrias-mcdonalds\/"},"modified":"2024-09-26T11:08:51","modified_gmt":"2024-09-26T17:08:51","slug":"being-the-bad-guys-as-molleindustrias-mcdonalds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/being-the-bad-guys-as-molleindustrias-mcdonalds\/","title":{"rendered":"Molleindustria and playing as the bad guy"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Being the bad guys As Molleindustria&rsquo;s McDonalds&rsquo; video game, Oiligarchy places the player in the shoes of the &ldquo;bad guys&rdquo; in order to articulate the critique. Our belief is that power structures can be understood more clearly if represented from a privileged position. The player tends to perform actions with both positive outcomes (profits, advancement in the game) and social or environmental costs (a.k.a. negative externalities) dealing with responsibilities in a system that does not really punish unethical choices. The unethical gameplay is designed to reflect the free market system, which is ultimately, the object of the critique.<br \/>\nMoreover, a mirrored point of view can avoid the trap of the \u201csimulated activism\u201d, a cathartic illusion of empowerment and normative \u201cdo the right thing\u201d enunciates. Games do not work as Skinnerian conditioning devices: games rewarding (virtual) social change do not produce activists for the same reasons games rewarding (virtual) violence do not produce violent players. As a result of taking a look at the players\u2019 feedback, it is apparent that pushing the people to explore the dark side, especially if done with abundant irony, does not undermine the overarching game objectives.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div class='attribution'><a href=\"http:\/\/www.molleindustria.org\/oiligarchy-postmortem\">Oiligarchy Postmortem | Molleindustria<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Being the bad guys As Molleindustria&rsquo;s McDonalds&rsquo; video game, Oiligarchy places the player in the shoes of the &ldquo;bad guys&rdquo; in order to articulate the critique. Our belief is that power structures can be understood more clearly if represented from a privileged position. The player tends to perform actions with both positive outcomes (profits, advancement [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"quote","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2082,10],"tags":[335,493,187,42,39,132,976,943,1460,1461,463],"class_list":["post-26566","post","type-post","status-publish","format-quote","hentry","category-tumblr-archive","category-words","tag-critical-engagement","tag-critical-practice","tag-critique","tag-design","tag-game-design","tag-humane-games","tag-interaction-design","tag-media","tag-molleindustria","tag-oiligarchy","tag-videogame","post_format-post-format-quote"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6PWot-6Uu","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26566","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26566"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26566\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":56651,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26566\/revisions\/56651"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26566"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26566"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26566"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}