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Turn It All Off, an energy savings game March 19, 2007 - by Ian Bogost
For starters, here's the 1E Energy Awareness Campaign game about how you can save energy at work. Turn It All Off is a cute, well-produced game that does more than many similar games I have seen over the years. The principle is familiar enough: move a character around an office and find the objects that are using energy unnecessarily. But Turn It All Off actually ads some gameplay for once: there's a time limit, and there are both obstacles and simple puzzles to overcome. I'll give away the puzzle in the first level to give you an example: turn the coffee pot on to lure the late-nite worker away from her workstation, which you can then turn off. There's also a good deal of humor in the game, which I'll let you discover on your own. (thanks to Liz) POST A COMMENT
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