Compare and Contrast: The U.S. Constitution and Game Development

September 27, 2009

Our friends over at Gamasutra have developed an Expert Blogs area of their site, whereby they host guest blogs penned by game development executives on an invitation-only basis. While many of the article are, as you might imagine, technical in nature, Eric Hardman's "The Framers Were Gamers" is a very insightful and GP-relevant piece. It explores how the Founding Fathers came to consensus much like game development teams do. There are some thought-provoking parallels and comparisons worth checking out.

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Re: Compare and Contrast: The U.S. Constitution and Game ...

Submitted by Positive_Gamer on Sun, 09/27/2009 - 22:42.

I'm going to share that bit of history with my kids at bed time tomorrow night.

Re: Compare and Contrast: The U.S. Constitution and Game ...

Submitted by Flamespeak on Sun, 09/27/2009 - 19:53.

George Washington: "We should include something about the rights of people to defend themselves against the zombie apocolypse."

Thomas Jefferson: "I think it would be more important for people to defend themselves against aliens."

GW: "Aliens are the least of the people's concerns, Thomas. Zombies are a far larger threat."

TJ: "Rambling, reanimated corpses are easily disposed of, General. A farmhand armed with lifting rod can dispatch many of them. Aliens, however, have muskets that are far more deadly than our own. We should be prepared in case of them."

*Enter Benjamin Franklin*

BF: "Enough you two! Both zombies and aliens pose a potential threat, the best course of action is to ensure that people have a right to defend themselves against both. Let every home contain a musket and several explosive devices dipped in tar to stick to the coming threats."

GW: "A splendid idea."

TJ: "Here, here."

Thus the 2nd amendment was born

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Re: Compare and Contrast: The U.S. Constitution and Game ...

Submitted by MrKlorox on Mon, 09/28/2009 - 06:08.

James Madison: *enters* Hey guys. Finished editing that Constitution yet? I've got another one I need drafted.

Ben Franklin: We just finished article three and need to tighten up the grammar a little bit.

JM: Great. *exits*

BF: *turns to cohort* Hey, I can't believe we got jobs doing this!

George Washington: I know! And my mom said I'd never get anywhere with these politics.

Re: Compare and Contrast: The U.S. Constitution and Game ...

Submitted by T5 on Mon, 09/28/2009 - 05:41.

Excuse me fellas *pushes up glasses* Jefferson was actually in France at the time, using James Madsion would be more apt, other than that lol

Re: Compare and Contrast: The U.S. Constitution and Game ...

Submitted by Drazgal on Mon, 09/28/2009 - 04:56.

Benjamin Franklin vs The Space Zombies.

I demand Hollywood get to work on this film.

Re: Compare and Contrast: The U.S. Constitution and Game ...

Submitted by Cerabret100 on Sun, 09/27/2009 - 21:06.
Now If this is what they had taught in government class, i wouldn't have been boarderline sleeping through the whole damn thing. And before anyone says bad cerabret for dozing in class, out of all the tests combined I only missed 1 point (which i think was right). Easiest A ever.

Re: Compare and Contrast: The U.S. Constitution and Game ...

Submitted by DarkSaber on Sun, 09/27/2009 - 20:41.

Flamespeak for (your) president!

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