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by Ian Bogost June 18, 2007
categories: Political Games

My colleagues at the USC EA Game Innovation Lab and the USC Annenberg Center released The Redistricting Game last week, not just at the Games for Change Festival but also on Capitol Hill (via NPR). Comments on GamePolitics, as well as in an article from last Sunday's Washington Post (in which I am also quoted).

Redistricting is a great example of a political issue that's wonderfully gameable. It's an underdiscussed, probably largely unknown topic that significantly affects the way legislation works, and it's a complex system of interrelated conditions.