(2003-05-02) Nation Building Sim

TomLoftus on "virtual Nation Building" (Society Design) Serious Games, a project of the Woodrow Wilson Center in Washington, is an attempt to get the wonks to realize that specially designed Computer Game-s can help them get their "GreatGame" chops. David Rejeski, director of the project, has been lobbying commercial game designers and public policy experts to work together. "Policy guys are used to running Simulation-s that pump out answers," said Rejeski. "They are saying "Tell me what to do. Don't tell me that there are five possibilities.""