Publish at June 14 2010 Updated February 07 2024
Molleindustria is a group of Italian artists, designers and programmers who offer activist "serious games."
Filled with dark humor, these games (mostly in Italian and English only) want to make us think about our current way of life.
After offering us to play an infamous oil master in Oligarchy and having put us in charge of the McDonald's corporation, we are offered Free Culture.
Although the Free Culture game is in English, you don't need much knowledge of the language to play it. In a circular play area, "ideas" represented by yellow balls adorned with a light bulb circulate. With your cursor in the shape of a blue ball adorned with a "C" (representing the Creative Commons acronym), you will have to move these ideas to little green men.
However, around this common area circulates a kind of idea vacuum cleaner representing those who want to take these ideas and place them under commercial license. So you'll have to use your cursor to preserve the ideas and give them to the green guys in the free market. The more ideas you give them, the more new ones they produce, feeding the central stock. But beware: the greens have a limited lifespan. If you don't feed them, they turn into dull concomitants of the commercial culture... The mission is quite difficult because the market is voracious...
The game is an original and partisan illustration of the current clash between free culture and commercial culture. As such, it allows to understand the stakes of this battle, without long speeches. These will come later, for all those who wish to know more about the principle of Creative Commons and other free licenses.
Impertinent, this production of Molleindustria still succeeds in the challenge of mixing opinion and video game.
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