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Media Watch: Board game unravels confusing treaty lingo
From the Victoria (British Columbia) Time Colonist:
| Quick, throw the dice. Hey, you’ve landed on Xwulqw’selu. Now define capacity building and move your game piece to the next square in a quest for the big prize – the inner circle with a treaty.
The Hul’qumi’num Treaty Group wants to inject some fun into learning about treaty talks by unravelling the incomprehensible bureaucratese and acronyms used at treaty meetings. The Treaty Board Game is the brainchild of Joey Caro, treaty group communications manager, who has sat through too many meetings where aboriginal and non-aboriginal audiences have stared in blank incomprehension as speakers throw around phrases such as “land based jurisdictional model” and “S.87 tax exemption.” |
How odd that non-game designers feel that the perfect way to instruct someone in a complicated topic is to create a game about it. Why not a rap song or an interpretive dance? Oh, is it because they’re not songwriters or choreographers? That doesn’t stop them from designing a game, does it?
Don’t mind me – must have been something I ate. Carry on to the rest of the article on the Times Colonist website.
Thanks to Elliott Reynolds for passing along this link!
Posted by W. Eric Martin on Mar 26, 2008 at 03:00 AM in Game News, Media Watch / 885
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