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California Budget Challenge May 9, 2005 - by Ian Bogost A nonpartisan California organization called Next Ten has created the California Budget Challenge, a sort of interactive application that lets the user make highly structured decisions about the California budget. It's not really a game, but another example of an interactive representation of the tradeoffs of budgeting. (thanks to Bridget) Comment from Bob Hone on June 2, 2005
Glad to see the California Budget Challenge got mentioned here. Our company, Red Hill Studios, developed the site for Next Ten. The policy options, decisions, and impacts, are based on the work of Steve Levy, director of the Continuing Study of the California Economy. The budget figures are the same ones being tossed about in Sacramento by the governor, legislators, lobbyists, and policy wonks. One of the main challenges was trying to find the correct balance between depth and usability. If anyone is interested in more details on the site, its development, and our current plans to expand the simulation, please feel free to email me or respond this post here or on Serious Games. POST A COMMENT
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