Molleindustria has released a new game about the history and hypothetical future of oil, called Oiligarchy. The game feature's M's characteristic attention to detail in simulation, blended with satire and abstract cartoonishness.

In some ways, the collision of procedurality and cartoon comes to a head in this game, as the devoted player will discover when he or she realizes that energy can be happily manufactured from human beings directly. Nervous about the issues of transparency in the game (a subject we're tackling head-on in the journalism project I mentioned yesterday), Molleindustria has written detailed postmortem of the game by its creators. Make sure you read it after playing.