HIDDEN GEMS: PASSAGE DEV CREATING BLOOD DIAMOND DS STRATEGY GAME
It took me more than a few reads to make sure this was on the level, but it would appear to be so: in an interview with ‘social/artistic’ games blog Press Pause to Reflect, Passage, Gravitation and Primrose designer Jason Rohrer (also currently consulting for ad agency Tool) tells the blog his current project will actually be actually his first retail release.
According to the blog, Rohrer says he’s at work on a DS game to be published by Majesco in 2010, and here’s the kicker:
It’s a two-player strategy game about diamond trading in Angola on the eve of the passage of the Kimberly Process.
The politics of diamond trading in the region (and surrounding areas) has been a minefield for the past few decades, the diamond miners themselves suffering human rights abuses and proceeds of the trade of the so-called ‘blood diamonds’ going to fund local insurgencies/conflicts.
It’s not subject matter that would pop immediately to mind for a handheld title, but I suppose were I to choose someone to metaphorically reduce it to a 2-player strategy game, Rohrer would be somewhere up there near the top of my to-call list. [via Destructoid]
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