Games Commons

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Games Commons is a new way to conceive of game design. Games are driven by data published on the web, owned and managed in common (think Wikipedia). Over time this results in a game which evolves by the creativity of the player commons.

The image used as artwork on the front of the box, reading "Daybreak". The colours are a mixture of light shades of blue, green, pink and yellow. Several people drawn as silhouettes look down a road lined with solar panels, wind turbines, greenery, and a cityscape, towards the breaking dawn.

A screenshot of the election results of May 1928, the first in-game election. A graphic shows the new distribution of seats in the Reichstag, colour-coded by party. The player's party, the SPD, has 31% of the share, a +5 percentage change. A host of other parties are shown to be losing or gaining by similar margins. Only the KPD and DDP are visibly labelled in the screenshot.

Cover of the game, displaying creator Elizabeth Magie, and the sketch of a village, as well as the game's title