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[Shades]

It seems the UK government want more young people involved in politics and they are looking for game designers to achieve this.

Tender: http://www.publictenders.net/tender/57433

# QUANTITY OR SCOPE OF THE CONTRACT
# II.2.1)
Total quantity or scope

Design, development and delivery of a computer game that will engage and immerse young people in learning about democracy and the role of Parliament in scrutinising the government, representing the public and making laws.

Excluding VAT

Range between 250 000 and 350 000 GBP

I was thinking we could just submit LCS

[Keita]

I was thinking we could just submit LCS

Haha wow.

Well shows you how desperate the government is getting for people to be involved. I think people just don't care anymore seeming as whoevers in power will always screw up at some point down the line.

[Max White]

You could just do what happens down here in Australia.
Voting is compulsory, so we grow to hate our politics so much that they have a massive turn over rate, and it makes for good gambling on who will go next, and when money is involved people always pay close attention.

[Pathos]

# QUANTITY OR SCOPE OF THE CONTRACT
# II.2.1)
Total quantity or scope

Design, development and delivery of a computer game that will engage and immerse young people in learning about democracy and the role of Parliament in scrutinising the government, representing the public and making laws.

Excluding VAT

Range between 250 000 and 350 000 GBP

See, I'd be happy to do this if I had any programming / coding skill whatsoever. Well, that and any idea how to "engage and immerse young people in learning about democracy and the role of Parliament in scrutinising the government, representing the public and making laws". I don't think that's possible. And I think it'd have to be filled with some major lies too.

Otherwise it'd just be:-
House of Lords - Outdated system which is holding the country back.
House of Commons / Electoral System - First past the post system which is outdated and holding the country (and the views of it's people) back.
New Labour - Ironically a fairly far-right and Authoritarian party, based on an old Libertarian and left-wing party.
Conservatives - Like New Labour, but without the irony. And more lies.
BNP - Probably the most honest party out there, until Nick Griffin started lying about his ( and the party's ) views. Still a bunch of Nazis that would completely mess up the country.
Liberal Democrats - A well-liked political party that probably will never get in due to the outdated electoral. Sorry, guys.

But, really, I can't think of any way to "engage young people" and talk about Parliament unless it's some kind of really abstract RPG or something. Actually, an RPG would probably work. You could basically do LCS but legally.

[ChairmanPoo]

Change the names of the parties and you could make those descriptions fit to pretty much any western nation.

But yeah, it's funny how politicians in general shed crocodrile tears about "those evil youths that simply dont care about our political system" and asking how they can "get people to involve themselves". The problem is that they are not really willing to do that. They keep giving us the same lemon flavor vs strawberry flavor choice, and the problem is that regardless of the artificial condiment, the gruel is the same. At the same time, they tend to shoot down ideas that would indeed make people more participative but would potentially mean a disadvantage in the parallel politics favor-exchanging power.
For instance, here at least, most major (and not so major) politicians are up in arms against open lists proposals, officially because of lame arguments about how "people really dont care all that much". The real reason is even simpler: with open lists, a guy who had brown-nosed his way to the top of a party yet was impopular among the general populace could end up not entering the goverment regardless of his past ass-kissings.

[RedKing]

There's actually a few indie titles out there that kinda already fit the bill here. I'm thinking especially of Democracy, which ironically enough, is a UK game.

Granted, you're playing the chief executive rather than a legislator, but it still does a fair job of conveying how you have to balance the interests of various constituents. No matter what decision you make for a given situation, you're going to piss somebody off.

I'd be fascinated to see a strategy game focused on the sort of horse-trading that goes on in crafting and passing legislation. There's an untapped goldmine of gameplay there, if you can just find a way to proceduralize it and develop an AI.

[Shades]

There's actually a few indie titles out there that kinda already fit the bill here. I'm thinking especially of Democracy, which ironically enough, is a UK game.

Seems he didn't know about the government offer, well he does now. I wonder if he'll come up with an adaptation of democracy that would work.

[DJ]

Since it's UK, I think it'd be fun if you played as the Queen and your objective was to gradually erode the Parliament's power and restore true monarchy.

[Cthulhu]

As an American, I want to make a game where everyone speaks with a London accent, has bad teeth, and talks about the Queen, and how God should save her.  Every building looks like Parliament, and there are British flags everywhere.  The people discuss government, using quotes from wikipedia (Including the citation links).  It'll be the best game ever.

[Omegastick]

As an American, I want to make a game where everyone speaks with a London accent, has bad teeth, and talks about the Queen, and how God should save her.  Every building looks like Parliament, and there are British flags everywhere.  The people discuss government, using quotes from wikipedia (Including the citation links).  It'll be the best game ever.

You seem to be joking about that, whereas, in fact, that is exactly what london is like.

[DJ]

Needs more plaid Burberry hats.

[Jreengus]

As an American, I want to make a game where everyone speaks with a London accent, has bad teeth, and talks about the Queen, and how God should save her.  Every building looks like Parliament, and there are British flags everywhere.  The people discuss government, using quotes from wikipedia (Including the citation links).  It'll be the best game ever.

You seem to be joking about that, whereas, in fact, that is exactly what london is like.

Bah! England has the best teeth in the world.

I'll concede all the other points though.