More serious games (or playful tools): "futures-related wargaming specialists" Alidade Incorporated will hold a three-day "wargame" this June, based on the work of Thomas Barnett
This three-day executive-level wargame will "pit business leaders, military strategists and government policy makers against each other in a realistic, role-playing competition designed to provide players with an intimate understanding of how the near future may unfold"
If you want to play The New Map Game, too, and you have a bunch of dough, you can sign up here.
But I'm getting more and more interested in what open source, citizen-developed versions of these games might look like. What would a worldchanging game look like? At very least, I'm thinking that a serious games tournament/ design competition might be fun and useful. Any ideas?








