Here’s the first trailer for that Ron Paul video game you’ve always wanted. In Ron Paul: Road to REVOLution, you play as the goofy presidential candidate as he fights his way through all 50 states, collecting gold coins and delegates while beating the crap out of everyone in the federal government. It’ll be out this July and free to play in your internet browser, creator Daniel Williams says.
Republican presidential candidate Ron Paul has been called the internet’s candidate, and what’s on the internet can’t help but spill over into World of Warcraft. On New Year’s Day a group of Paul followers are planning a march from Ironforge to Stormwind on the Whisperwind server to show support for their favorite candidate. The march will begin at 8:30 PM. Depending on the route they take, this could be an extremely short march (Ironforge to train tunnel to Stormwind) or an extremely long and humorous one as dozens of Ron Paul supporters sporting newbie Gnome and Dwarf characters die in droves trying to cross the Burning Steppes. Unfortunately Whisperwind is a non-PVP server, so the worst any political opposition can do is /rude, /spit, and kek.
Ron Paul supporters plan rally in Azeroth [WoW Insider via Game Politics]
A few months ago, my studio Persuasive Games made a simple newsgame for CNN, which they published as Presidential Pong. For those of you unfamiliar with the genre, newsgames are a simple type of political game akin to the editorial cartoon.
Presidential Pong wasn’t the best newsgame we’ve ever done (that one was probably Airport Security, a game about the arbitrary nature of TSA screening). But it was effective enough. Released right around the first Presidential debate, the game was intended both to introduce the primary candidates and to satirize the very idea of debate. In Pong, players return tennis volleys. In Presidential Pong, they return campaign volleys. Politics is, as ever, optional.
Since then, we’ve been getting regular abusive emails and phone calls from Ron Paul supporters.
