Complexity Digest 2003.38 - 14

22-Sep-2003

Online Games Grab Grim Reality, NYTimes Bookmark and Share

Excerpts: "Waco Resurrection," for instance, is a new computer game in which four players assume the role of the cult leader David Koresh in a virtual re-creation of his Texas compound where more than three dozen people were killed in a confrontation with federal agents. (...) The game, to be put online early in 2004, was created by a Los Angeles artists' collective, C-level. Its members intend to produce a series of games about ideologues, including the Heaven's Gate leader Marshall Applewhite and the Unabomber, Theodore Kaczynski.