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Water Cooler Games served as the web's primary forum for "videogames with an agenda" — coverage of the uses of video games in advertising, politics, education, and other everyday activities, outside the sphere of entertainment.

The site was maintained at watercoolergames.org from 2003-2009, where it was edited by myself and Gonzalo Frasca. It is now archived here in full.
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Water conservation game
by Ian Bogost January 3, 2007
categories: Public Policy Games

Check out Seattle Public Utilities' game about water conservation, Waterbusters. The visual design is nice but the gameplay could use some work... mostly you walk around the house and run into stuff. If you run into the right stuff, you get messages about how they could be used more efficiently.

(via João Bordalo)