“You’re the owner of an old rustbucket ship containing toxic chemicals. Do you send it to India for dismantling by unprotected human labour, or can you find a more ecological way?”
DEVELOPER/DESIGNER: Greenpeace
YEAR:
INFO: Online, free
PLAY: http://www.greenpeace.org/international/en/multimedia/goodies/Games/Tricks-of-the-trade/
(Source: http://www.greenpeace.org/international/en/multimedia/goodies/Games/)
“The need of mobility has grown to excess since the first years of the millennium. That’s why Tuboflex inc., the world’s leading Human Resources Services organisation, created a complex tube system that make it possible to dislocate employees in real time, depending on demand. Playing the part of a Tuboflex workhand, you will have to survive in this dynamic labour market.
In Tuboflex the player, armed with their mouse, must negotiate different tasks set for their (cute) avatar in different virtual workplaces, from a fast-food drive-through counter, to a factory floor, to a clerical cubicle, to a Christmastime shopping-centre wherein they must play Santa to demanding children. They are sucked from one job to another without warning, and while their tasks become progressively harder, in between there are periods of unemployment where the clock ticks as the player’s avatar sits idly in an armchair.”
DEVELOPER/DESIGNER: Molleindustria
YEAR: 2007
INFO: Online, Free
PLAY: http://www.molleindustria.org/en/tuboflex
(Source: http://www.molleindustria.org/node/134)
