''Global Conflicts: Palestine'' is an
adventure
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video game. It was
developed by
Serious Games Interactive for
Mac OS X
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and
Microsoft Windows
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. A sequel, ''
Global Conflicts: Latin America'', was released in 2008.
Summary
The player assumes the role of a freelance
journalist
A journalist is a person who gathers information in the form of text, audio or pictures, processes it into a newsworthy form and disseminates it to the public. This is called journalism.
Roles
Journalists can work in broadcast, print, advertis ...
who has just arrived in
Jerusalem
Jerusalem is a city in the Southern Levant, on a plateau in the Judaean Mountains between the Mediterranean Sea, Mediterranean and the Dead Sea. It is one of the List of oldest continuously inhabited cities, oldest cities in the world, and ...
facing challenges. The goal is to create and get an article published for a
newspaper
A newspaper is a Periodical literature, periodical publication containing written News, information about current events and is often typed in black ink with a white or gray background. Newspapers can cover a wide variety of fields such as poli ...
by collecting quotes from the dialog in the game. The player can either get information by building up trust with each side or take a more confrontational approach to dig out information. In the end, the story with the most news-value will get the best exposure. The player must be careful what they submit for print, because it will affect their standings with both sides.
The game attempts to challenge the player's beliefs and ideas about the conflict. The game has support for educational use with features like an
encyclopedia
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, primary sources, assessment and a teacher's manual.
The game is one in a series of serious games made by Serious Games Interactive, under the joint title "Global Conflicts".
Reception
In 2010 it was awarded a
BETT
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Award in the category of "Secondary, FE & Skills Digital Content" for its flagship title Global Conflicts: Palestine.
See also
* ''
Conflict: Middle East Political Simulator''
References
External links
"Middle-East conflict informs game" article{{Webarchive, url=https://web.archive.org/web/20061020204518/http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/6059026.stm , date=2006-10-20 from the
BBC
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2007 video games
Humanitarian video games
Israeli–Palestinian conflict video games
MacOS games
Serious Games Interactive games
Single-player video games
Video games developed in Denmark
Video games set in Jerusalem
Windows games