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GDC: A Force More Powerful by Carol T Chung

GDC-ForceMorePower.jpgBreakAway Games, showed their upcoming fall release, A Force More Powerful. It's a nonviolent strategic simulation game. The basic goal was to create a tool that enabled social movements to learn nonviolent strategic planning for implementation in oppressed societies. The project was sponsored by ICNC (International Center on Nonviolent Conflict). It will be distributed in multiple languages and easily accessible to other countries.

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This entry posted on 08 March 2005 at 3:27 AM
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