Political Games Forever

Hi everyone,

This blog is being moved to here: http://theoryspark.com/blog .

The TheorySpark Team

Chancellor Forever 2009 has been released in time for the German election is Sep. 27th, 2009.

Try the demo and get Chancellor Forever 2009 here:

http://theoryspark.com/political_games/chancellor_forever/2009/info/index.htm

Until September 26th, Chancellor Forever 2009 is available at a discount $9.95, instead of the regular $14.95.

Angela Merkel is a popular Chancellor, but her CDU party does not fair as well. With the Grand Coalition between the CDU and the SPD ending, polls show no party has a majority. Who will become next Chancellor, and chart Germany’s future?

Includes:

- 2009, 2005, and 2002 scenarios, designed by Dr. Marco Althaus, including all 5 major parties
- all 299 constituencies with local candidates included
- toggle between viewing First-Past-the-Post and Germany’s system of electing candidates, to see how your party would fair under different rules
- and more

Kanzler Forever 2009 (in Deutsch) also available from the above page.

Sign up for Congress Forever 2010 Pre-Release version now available. See here.

Info here.

Here’s how you can influence the political news we’re reading here at TS. Where are the main places that you get wonkish political news from? Politico? WP? RCP?

(I’m curious about not just the U.S., but also other countries (in Europe, Canada, Australia, NZ, … you name it).)

We have launched a new scenarios site:

scenarios.theoryspark.com

This new site will have scenarios for all the games, listed and categorized, and allow you to comment on the page. This will unify a few different places for scenario info we have been using up until now.

To get your scenario posted, send your scenarios here!
http://www.theoryspark.com/interact/contact.htm

Right now we have all the President Forever 2008 + Primaries scenarios at scenarios.theoryspark.com, plus Ocia – 2009 for Chancellor Forever. We will continue to add scenarios to the page.

A new version of Campaigns Forever has been released:

1.6.0.8

Go here to view information and download.

Go here for Campaigns Forever’s purchase page.

The TheorySpark Team

United States – 2008 with 1960’s Candidates, by Mathieu Urbaniak, has now been added to the scenarios page for our election game simulation.

From the scenario designer: “What if the thrilling presidential election of 1960 were held in 2008? President Eisenhower never sent troops to Iraq. Would Kennedy be able to qualify for the general election and win the Presidency?”

Version 1.6.x of President Forever 2008 + Primaries, a major update, has been released.

You can view version information and download the update here.

The latest Beta version of President Forever 2008 + Primaries has been released, here. (The non-Beta version is available here.)

This version includes Electability, a new fundraising model, adds the 1980 scenario (bringing the total number of official scenarios to 5, including 2008, 2004, 2000, 1992, and 1980), makes a large number of changes to the existing official scenarios (including 2008), enhances the AI, adds online Help, and includes an experimental multiplayer feature.

Once we’ve Beta tested these features for a bit, they will be added to the latest release version.