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maybe make some change

by Aaron A. Reed

2011

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About the Story

Inspired by the Maywand district killings in Afghanistan, 'maybe make some change' explores a frozen battlefield moment from six violently conflicting perspectives.


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Rock, Paper, Shotgun
Never Say Never: Maybe Make some Change
It’s an interactive experience about an ongoing war but while it depicts horror it doesn’t preach or make a chest-thumping political statement. Instead, it tells a brutal and frankly upsetting story about confusion: the confusion of combat, of conflicting opinions and advice, of hatred and prejudice, and, on all sides, the confusion of agendas and loyalty.
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auntie pixelante
the flashing cursor of the traditional text adventure suggests limitless possibilities. but the frustration that many players discover upon typing a few phrases is that the game will only respond to those phrases, those modes of action, that the author has prepared the game for – that the author has authorized. but there are some situations, some places where a deceptively, frustratingly limited ability to act is in fact a concrete, unarguable reality. like afghanistan, under command of american military sergeants.
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Emily Short's Interactive Storytelling
Aaron Reed’s “maybe make some change” is a more polished, web-accessible release of the work that premiered at the IF Demo Fair as “what if im the bad guy”. Aaron is releasing it today on the ten-year anniversary of the beginning of our war in Afghanistan.
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GameSetWatch
Realities of War as a Text Adventure
Maybe Make Some Change is a browser-based text adventure based on the Maywand District killings in Afghanistan, in which a group of U.S. army soldiers allegedly formed a "kill team" last year that murdered unarmed Afghans and arranged the scenes to look like insurgent attacks.
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