A Games Design Blog » Harpooned http://agamesdesignblog.com Wed, 30 Jun 2010 09:48:17 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 Harpooned 2009 http://agamesdesignblog.com/2009/02/02/harpooned-2009/ http://agamesdesignblog.com/2009/02/02/harpooned-2009/#comments Mon, 02 Feb 2009 13:07:39 +0000 rob hale http://schizoslayer.co.uk/?p=53 There have been a few attempts to use Videogames for Political reasons. There was that game around the 2004 presidential election where you were John Kerry (Maybe) and you jumped around and generally had your character besmirched or something. I don’t remember it was a long time ago now and 5 minutes of google reveals nothing.

However there was also more serious attempt: Escape from Woomera which was… well it wasn’t actually that fun. That may have been the point of course.

Well now we have Harpooned. A satirical look at Japanese Whaling via the medium of the Vertically scrolling Shmup.

Harpooned 2009 update from Conor O’Kane on Vimeo.

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