This had just enough "game" to make it feel like a challenging, compelling experience. At the same time, the underlying discourse the game presents is very interesting. It is literally about the marketplace of ideas - not an easy concept to present in a coherent game space.

While I myself am a strong supporter of the creative commons and the idea landscape of free culture, the factor least present in the game is the need for free culture (the "green people") to have some marketplace incentive. While they are bound up in the marketplace as mindless consumers, (the "gray people") at least have the opportunity to do things not presented in the game - rather important things such as buying groceries or paying the rent. These are variables that The Free Culture Game does not account for and as a result it does not lend itself to striking some balance between marketplace incentives for generating ideas and sharing those ideas to foster creative culture.

If Paolo ever decides that designing videogames would be a good way to pay for his groceries or his rent, I would be more than happy to pay a little bit of capital for that Free Culture.