Layoff: The Game

 

Tiltfactor and the collaborative Values at Play project just released a Bejeweled type game satirizes the plight of worker bees who are paying the price for the incompetent Wall Street types behind the economic meltdown.

Tilfactor described Layoff as a simple casual game paradigm to comment on the current state of the US financial crisis. Gamers play from the side of management needing to cut jobs, and match types of workers in groups in order to lay the workers off and increase workforce efficiency.

There are even facts in the game such as:

Adjust for inflation, the federal bailout of $8.5 trillion is more expensive than every war the US has ever fought, the Louisiana Purchase, the Marshall Plan, the New Deal, and the Nasa Space Program COMBINED.”

The game is educational, but at the same time is really fun (also quite depressing) which is the goal of the company.(except the depressing part).

Play Here

 

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