Artists use satirical games to counter Trump White House propaganda
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Artists and game creators are countering the Trump White House’s political video games with satire of their own. The White House’s online game collection, Arcade, reworked popular titles like Tetris and Flappy Bird to promote the administration’s policies. After the Tetris Company warned that it took copyright infringement seriously, the game was removed from the site days later. This spring, the Secret Handshake group released two free games satirizing the administration’s actions on Iran and Greenland. More than 350,000 people have played them online. Developer Richie Branson partnered with the nonprofit All for America to create Tax Evaders. The game lets players select Trump and other officials as pilots before they destroy health care and line billionaire pockets. Since July, it has drawn more than 50,000 players and over 2 million page impressions. Advertising colleagues Alfie Souter and Carlota Real developed Corrupt Invaders using ChatGPT. Players steer Trump’s “$400m Qatari gift” jet to collect another “$1.4bn in crypto,” with the score subtracted from Trump’s reported cryptocurrency earnings. Branson says Tax Evaders aims to show how officials destroy beneficial programs with the same combination of enthusiasm and indifference as players blowing up enemy ships. The creators are using familiar game formats to challenge the administration’s use of gaming culture for political messaging. https://thesansasyonel.com/en/to-them-were-just-npcs-the-artists-and-activists-challenging-trumps-video-game-propaganda-33893
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