If someone would have told me last Friday that I’d be watching a revolution in Belarus via YouTube, I would have been sceptical. But here I am…
In the world of games, the are some examples of simulations of complex behaviours and dynamics. History books have long been a looking glass at human behaviours and different political cycles. I think that today some games have achieved the level of complexity where they can reflect our human reality just as well as books.
What I’m talking about is the mechanic of Ages in Civ6. Civ6, in case you can’t google it, is a turn-based strategy game that simulates a course of the history of a nation. The mechanic of Ages is a system of points that is being checked at certain rounds. A player can score high (Golden age), medium (Neutral age) or low. If the player scores low, the nation is plunged into a Dark Age and suffers penalties.
A Dark Age nation that, despite its state, manages to score high at the next Age point check enters a Heroic Age, instead of the usual Golden Age. That serves as a recognition of the efforts that the nation made.
And so, I’d like to think, that perhaps Belarus can be on a verge of ending its Dark Age with a bang and entering a better Age. Like I said, a week ago I thought that there was no hope.
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