- Dear Esther (2012) Thechineseroom
- Spore (2008) EA
- LA Noire (2011) Rockstar Games
The following text below has been taken from a presentation performed during one of my lectures that I unfortunately missed. The task has been split up into sections of questions in which I will answer in full sentence form to complete the task.
As a sum up I have to look at each of these games and think about 'what potentials do they point to?'
I will answer this question by pulling apart each game and analyze them by answering another series of questions, further breaking it down.
Structural Framework
- How do the rules and conditions of the game create conflict?
- Are players struggling against each other or the game or both?
- What are the interactive experiences provided for players in the game?
- Does interaction create meaningful play?
Aesthetic Framework
- What does the game look like?
- What are the possible visual influences?
- Does the game offer intertextual references?
- What other aesthetic qualities does the game present - movement, sound?
Contextual Framework
Consider the game in terms of context:
- Origin
- Year of manufacture
- company (do they have a 'house style')?
- Target audience
- Does the game have persuasive purpose?
- What would make the game more effective?
- What potentials does the game point to
Dear Esther
'Dear Esther' is a first person, exploratory, interactive story, adventure game.
It was originally released in 2008 as a free Source Engine Mod, but then was remade in 2009 as a retail release in 2012.
The game itself is unique in its style, involving minimal interaction with characters and environment. The game fundamentally focuses on the narrative, which is told through scripted letters written to someone called 'Esther'. From episode to episode the letters progress, developing the games story.
Structural Framework
'Dear Esther' has no initial conflict in which the player is challenged physically. The initial conflict is with the environment itself, when exploring. As the game features little to no interaction the player just needs to travel from place to place to develop the story.
'Dear Esther' technically follows set rules, other wise the game literally has no real 'game' title to it. The rule is that the player must move forward to the next episode in order to progress and finish the game. Despite the games all out free roam capabilities rules still apply.
In 'Dear Esther', players only struggle against the game and its vast, open environment, figuring out which path to follow and what is the right way to go to progress in the story.
The game was originally made as a source for Modding, re-inventing the games environments into something which the player desired.
When the game was re-made and released for commercial sale, the source modding style was easily noticed and remained, meaning that the game still has no initial player to environment interaction. The only interactions that is generically accountable is activating a new segment in the story when the narrator reads the player another passage in the letters or walking into a wall, knowing it has a collision mesh added to it, stopping players from crashing or glitching the game.
Dear Esther creates meaningful play through its open world exploration and simplicity, not through its interaction. It gives the player no sense of boundaries in the world they are exploring and provides them with game full of peace and tranquility. A unique change to other adventure games such as 'Tomb Raider', 'Uncharted' and 'Fallout 3', which require strong interaction and action alongside the adventure genre. The game is a psychological escape from action, guns, puzzles, racing and horror.
Another creation of meaningful play in Dear Esther is playing the game because you want to, not because you have to. In terms of aesthetics, unique game play and the story, the game it self gives the player the means to feel no pressure in rushing around to complete it.
Aesthetic Framework
Dear Esther is a visual masterpiece. It is realistic, beautiful and vibrant. It shows the world for what it is, be it from natural wonders (rock formations, forests etc...) or man made (shipwrecks, buildings, fences etc...).
Dear Esther has a number of guaranteed visual influences; the aesthetics of the games environment being so realistic is the primary one, the graphics, the sounds and the psychological feeling of peace when playing it.
Intertextual: Relating to or deriving meaning from the interdependent ways in which texts stand in relation to each other.
http://www.thefreedictionary.com/intertextual
I do not believe that 'Dear Esther' offers deriving meaning from anything realistically political or religiously, but culturally Dear Esther's setting is realistic in the real aesthetics of the land and the local traditions the islands follow. The islands are known as the Hebrides, north west of Scotland. The island is strong with Celtic and Norse influences, depicting the local tongue and the where about of the prehistoric names of the islands.
http://www.virtualhebrides.com/
Dear Esther features simple, realistic sounds, ranging from the seaside breeze, the sounds of crashing waves or the sound of the characters feet trudging through mud, splashing through water, the hard knock or walking on pavement or the hollow thud of stepping on wooded piers, jetties etc...
Contextual Framework
'Dear Esther's' origins goes back to 2008 when the game was originally made as a mod for 'Half Life 2'. In 2009 the game was taken in for a complete overhaul by a game artist called Robert Briscoe in the games level design and visuals. Brisoe's aim was to reveal the games true potential. By 2010 the games potential shined when the games company Valve; known for 'Portal' and 'Half Life' were granted a license to market the game as an official release on their online game site; Steam. This gave everyone who had access to the internet the chance to experience the game themselves.
'Dear Esther' targets people of all ages, but from a personal perspective I believe it targets people over the age of 18. 'Dear Esther' is simple, but it has an in depth, mature and sophisticated message saying that games don't have to have renowned character's with detailed back stories, visually astonishing action and mindless violence that is found in most popular mainstream games to be a big hit. It remains simple through creating a vast, peaceful and mysterious environment, full of potential for players to explore in their own time.
'Dear Esther' persuasive purpose is to move away from the mainstream popular shooter and racing games of today's society, such as 'Call of Duty', 'Gran Theft Auto' and 'Need For Speed' and go in another direction with the adventure genre. Dear Esther has achieved this by creating a game world that anyone who plays it can see it how they want and believe what ever they want to with no one telling them what exactly is going on.
'Dear Esther' is a game which represents a new revolution in adventure games. I do not think that anything should be added or removed from the game to improve it. 'Dear Esther' is aesthetically pleasing, its simple, peaceful and there are literally no boundaries for the player.
In terms of making the game more effective, would be to involve some form of political or religious influenced narrative, but keeping the simplistic exploration characteristics.
'Dear Esther's' origins goes back to 2008 when the game was originally made as a mod for 'Half Life 2'. In 2009 the game was taken in for a complete overhaul by a game artist called Robert Briscoe in the games level design and visuals. Brisoe's aim was to reveal the games true potential. By 2010 the games potential shined when the games company Valve; known for 'Portal' and 'Half Life' were granted a license to market the game as an official release on their online game site; Steam. This gave everyone who had access to the internet the chance to experience the game themselves.
'Dear Esther' targets people of all ages, but from a personal perspective I believe it targets people over the age of 18. 'Dear Esther' is simple, but it has an in depth, mature and sophisticated message saying that games don't have to have renowned character's with detailed back stories, visually astonishing action and mindless violence that is found in most popular mainstream games to be a big hit. It remains simple through creating a vast, peaceful and mysterious environment, full of potential for players to explore in their own time.
'Dear Esther' persuasive purpose is to move away from the mainstream popular shooter and racing games of today's society, such as 'Call of Duty', 'Gran Theft Auto' and 'Need For Speed' and go in another direction with the adventure genre. Dear Esther has achieved this by creating a game world that anyone who plays it can see it how they want and believe what ever they want to with no one telling them what exactly is going on.
'Dear Esther' is a game which represents a new revolution in adventure games. I do not think that anything should be added or removed from the game to improve it. 'Dear Esther' is aesthetically pleasing, its simple, peaceful and there are literally no boundaries for the player.
In terms of making the game more effective, would be to involve some form of political or religious influenced narrative, but keeping the simplistic exploration characteristics.
http://dear-esther.com/?page_id=2
Image Sources
'Spore' is a multi-genre, sing player game when the player literally plays god. The game was developed by 'Maxis' ('Sims') and designed by Will Wright. the game was released for Mac and PC in 2008.
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Spore
'Spore' is a multi-genre, sing player game when the player literally plays god. The game was developed by 'Maxis' ('Sims') and designed by Will Wright. the game was released for Mac and PC in 2008.
Spore allows a player to create and control the growth and development of a species from microscopic birth to a galactic supremacy over other players creatures.
Structural Framework
'Spore' has many rules that create conflict both between players, AI (computer players) and the environment.
Throughout the stages of the players creatures development, they are faced with conflict against more evolved species trying to eat/kill/dominate them, gathering resources off the lay of the land, even including having to fight other players for it. Player conflict is a much higher rule to Spore, followed by environmental conflict. the risk of the surrounding land running out of resources, forcing the player to move on or even die out if they do not maintain a sustainable lifestyle throughout different stages of the game. As players develop their species the conflict increases as players all over the world grow to the same level as you are.
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| Stage 1: Bacteria |
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| Stage 2: Land based |
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| Stage 3: Base building |
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| Stage 4: Planet, space dominance |
'Spore' is full of interactive experiences throughout. Interaction consists of communicating or engaging in conflict with other players, gathering resources from plants, ground etc and being able to control either one or many of the player's creatures in the real time strategy mode or the early 3rd person mode, when you control only one of your creatures, expanding your territory further and dominating other players, either AI players or human players over the Internet.
'Spore's' interaction creates meaningful play in the simple sorts. The fact that all of the gameplay is conflict with other players. There isn't much detailed significance to it other than the need to dominate other players and rule the land, or from a realistic perspective understanding how animals in the real world have to defend their territory from strange invaders, or attack their territory to breed, gain access to better resources etc... Its a variation of realistic and fantasy meaningful play and can mean either or both to some players.
I played it when I was still getting into games and I didn't find any true meaning behind it. I just wanted to wipe all the other players out and win. Once I got to the space age I got bored and left the game all together, so I can't give any more personal input than that.
Aesthetic Framework
'Spore' looks like a computer generated simulation of planet Earth in a parallel universe, if humans had the option in how they can create the animals.
From a graphical perspective the game is lacking, minimizing the games initial aesthetic sophistication, but for 2008 it is visually modern.
The level of detail on the creatures is significantly higher than the environment, as 'Maxis' wanted the focus point to be the creatures, not the environment.
I can clearly see two visual influences that 'Spore' has taken on. The creatures have a similar visual style to 'Sims'. The environment; plants, land etc... is very much like 'World of Warcraft' (WOW). When players are in the third person stage of evolution the gameplay for combat and gathering resources is just like WOW.
'Spore' offers one massive intertextual reference. Darwin's theory of evolution. His theory is that all living things started from a microscopic form of bacteria. Some managed to survive, engaging other organisms, growing bigger and bigger. Over time, the organisms grew a variety of different features such as wings and feathers for flying, gills and fins for swimming and legs for walking etc... the list can go on. It all became apparent when the evolved creatures were able to walk on land, growing accustomed to their new environment and further evolving to adapt to the land be it hot, cold, wet, dry, windy, low oxygen or underground.
'Spore' gave the players that option and power to bring Darwin's theory to life and play god with nature themselves.
'Spore's' moment and sound aesthetic qualities are pretty basic and found in all video games. Developers focus on the quality of the characters animation the most, with their sounds that the player chooses to support them. Sounds vary whether they are communicating with other creatures to make, or engaging in combat, with sounds of struggling, death, victory and pain.
Environmental movement is pretty much on the same wavelength as a real time strategy game. A number of good examples would be 'Cossack's', 'Stronghold' and 'Supreme Commander 2', where the trees and plants move in motion to the velocity of the wind or rain ('Supreme Commander 2' only).
Creating a realistic surrounding environment for the player and their character/s.
Contextual Framework
'Spore' was originally going to be called 'SimEverything' but the creator didn't want all of 'Maxis's' games to be 'Sims' this 'Sims' that, instead the name, 'Spore' popped up and it stuck. The name originated from a comic in 2006.
As a promotional campaign, 'Spore' was given to go for a documentary on 'National Geographic' and a Youtube page was made, with updated trailers, with the games progress.
http://www.youtube.com/user/Spore
'Spore' was manufactured in 2006 and was released worldwide in 2008. Maxis's particular style is creating a realistic, animalistic (in this case) simulator, to give the player a realistic, immersive experience.
'Spore' targets a very young audience (3+) having a comic like aesthetic design. But the big picture of the game is much easier to understand if someone much older like 15+ was playing. The game initially wants to entertain and teach the player, slightly going off the realistic course when creatures begin to fly through space and build huge settlements.
I believe the games purpose was to create a virtual world with educational aspects, teaching young people about the theory of evolution and replacing generic humans evolving with creatures, created by the players.
The game is pretty dated now. From my past experience playing it, the first few stages of evolution in the game were very rushed and didn't get their fair share of play time compared to the space age. I think if the games different stages had an equal amount of screen time, or perhaps a larger expanse of environment to explore. Improving the games graphics, and modernising it would make a big difference.
Spore points to a number of great potentials. It is able to entertain and educate people at the same time, as well as give the 'Sims' franchise a new name.
LA Noire
'LA Noire' is an investigation, crime thriller game. It was released by Rockstar in 2011 for the Xbox 360, PS3 and PC. The follows the life of Cole Phelps.
Rockstar was the same company who made 'Gran Theft Auto' and 'Red Dead Redemption'. All the games share a similar aesthetic quality and a wide open camera third person perpective, giving the player full all round visibility and an immersive amount of freedom. All their games feature a crisp realistic graphical style, making their games usually 18+ rated, as they contain graphical violence, bad language and strong drug and sexual references.
A unique new addition to 'LA Noire' is the player witnessing graphical deaths and grotesque psychological and violent flashbacks before a victim was murdered. These recreational flashbacks are a key stage in solving cases to launch the game forward.
'LA Noire' has conflict primarily based around the life and job role of the character. This a unique characteristic, that lets the player understand how a real life job in the detective business could function.
LA Noire Gameplay
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YF47oVUxJXI
'Spore's' interaction creates meaningful play in the simple sorts. The fact that all of the gameplay is conflict with other players. There isn't much detailed significance to it other than the need to dominate other players and rule the land, or from a realistic perspective understanding how animals in the real world have to defend their territory from strange invaders, or attack their territory to breed, gain access to better resources etc... Its a variation of realistic and fantasy meaningful play and can mean either or both to some players.
I played it when I was still getting into games and I didn't find any true meaning behind it. I just wanted to wipe all the other players out and win. Once I got to the space age I got bored and left the game all together, so I can't give any more personal input than that.
Aesthetic Framework
'Spore' looks like a computer generated simulation of planet Earth in a parallel universe, if humans had the option in how they can create the animals.
From a graphical perspective the game is lacking, minimizing the games initial aesthetic sophistication, but for 2008 it is visually modern.
The level of detail on the creatures is significantly higher than the environment, as 'Maxis' wanted the focus point to be the creatures, not the environment.
I can clearly see two visual influences that 'Spore' has taken on. The creatures have a similar visual style to 'Sims'. The environment; plants, land etc... is very much like 'World of Warcraft' (WOW). When players are in the third person stage of evolution the gameplay for combat and gathering resources is just like WOW.
'Spore' offers one massive intertextual reference. Darwin's theory of evolution. His theory is that all living things started from a microscopic form of bacteria. Some managed to survive, engaging other organisms, growing bigger and bigger. Over time, the organisms grew a variety of different features such as wings and feathers for flying, gills and fins for swimming and legs for walking etc... the list can go on. It all became apparent when the evolved creatures were able to walk on land, growing accustomed to their new environment and further evolving to adapt to the land be it hot, cold, wet, dry, windy, low oxygen or underground.
'Spore' gave the players that option and power to bring Darwin's theory to life and play god with nature themselves.
'Spore's' moment and sound aesthetic qualities are pretty basic and found in all video games. Developers focus on the quality of the characters animation the most, with their sounds that the player chooses to support them. Sounds vary whether they are communicating with other creatures to make, or engaging in combat, with sounds of struggling, death, victory and pain.
Environmental movement is pretty much on the same wavelength as a real time strategy game. A number of good examples would be 'Cossack's', 'Stronghold' and 'Supreme Commander 2', where the trees and plants move in motion to the velocity of the wind or rain ('Supreme Commander 2' only).
Creating a realistic surrounding environment for the player and their character/s.
Contextual Framework
'Spore' was originally going to be called 'SimEverything' but the creator didn't want all of 'Maxis's' games to be 'Sims' this 'Sims' that, instead the name, 'Spore' popped up and it stuck. The name originated from a comic in 2006.
As a promotional campaign, 'Spore' was given to go for a documentary on 'National Geographic' and a Youtube page was made, with updated trailers, with the games progress.
http://www.youtube.com/user/Spore
'Spore' was manufactured in 2006 and was released worldwide in 2008. Maxis's particular style is creating a realistic, animalistic (in this case) simulator, to give the player a realistic, immersive experience.
'Spore' targets a very young audience (3+) having a comic like aesthetic design. But the big picture of the game is much easier to understand if someone much older like 15+ was playing. The game initially wants to entertain and teach the player, slightly going off the realistic course when creatures begin to fly through space and build huge settlements.
I believe the games purpose was to create a virtual world with educational aspects, teaching young people about the theory of evolution and replacing generic humans evolving with creatures, created by the players.
The game is pretty dated now. From my past experience playing it, the first few stages of evolution in the game were very rushed and didn't get their fair share of play time compared to the space age. I think if the games different stages had an equal amount of screen time, or perhaps a larger expanse of environment to explore. Improving the games graphics, and modernising it would make a big difference.
Spore points to a number of great potentials. It is able to entertain and educate people at the same time, as well as give the 'Sims' franchise a new name.
LA Noire
'LA Noire' is an investigation, crime thriller game. It was released by Rockstar in 2011 for the Xbox 360, PS3 and PC. The follows the life of Cole Phelps.
Rockstar was the same company who made 'Gran Theft Auto' and 'Red Dead Redemption'. All the games share a similar aesthetic quality and a wide open camera third person perpective, giving the player full all round visibility and an immersive amount of freedom. All their games feature a crisp realistic graphical style, making their games usually 18+ rated, as they contain graphical violence, bad language and strong drug and sexual references.
A unique new addition to 'LA Noire' is the player witnessing graphical deaths and grotesque psychological and violent flashbacks before a victim was murdered. These recreational flashbacks are a key stage in solving cases to launch the game forward.
'LA Noire' has conflict primarily based around the life and job role of the character. This a unique characteristic, that lets the player understand how a real life job in the detective business could function.
Influences:
The Movies
Sweet Smell of Success
This late-'50s noir inspired L.A. Noire with its stunning views of a city at night.
This late-'50s noir inspired L.A. Noire with its stunning views of a city at night.
The Naked City
Any case-based police procedural, whether film, TV, or video game, owes a debt to this influential film.
Any case-based police procedural, whether film, TV, or video game, owes a debt to this influential film.
Chinatown
A defining moment in film for its take on corruption and the form it took in the San Fernando Valley.
A defining moment in film for its take on corruption and the form it took in the San Fernando Valley.
Jazz: A Film by Ken Burns
This incredible PBS documentary charts the history of jazz, from its birth in the early years of the 20th century through to modern times, and gave us a guide to the kind of musical atmosphere we wanted to create inside the game.
This incredible PBS documentary charts the history of jazz, from its birth in the early years of the 20th century through to modern times, and gave us a guide to the kind of musical atmosphere we wanted to create inside the game.
Out of the Past
Famous for its twists and turns, the epilogue-as-a-prologue at the start of the film is one of the great moments in cinema.
Famous for its twists and turns, the epilogue-as-a-prologue at the start of the film is one of the great moments in cinema.
The Asphalt Jungle
A stunning heist movie in the noir style, this reminds me of an Ellroy novel where each character is fatally flawed and there is a sense of impending doom from the first scene.
A stunning heist movie in the noir style, this reminds me of an Ellroy novel where each character is fatally flawed and there is a sense of impending doom from the first scene.
The Third Man
The beautiful setting (postwar Vienna) and the powerful musical motifs were a huge inspiration, as well as the incredible lighting and staging.
The beautiful setting (postwar Vienna) and the powerful musical motifs were a huge inspiration, as well as the incredible lighting and staging.
Television Series
Badge 714 A radio series and TV show from actor and writer Jack Webb, the TV show (also known as Dragnet) chronicled real life on the force and re-created the image of the LAPD. I have an old copy of the novel on my desk.
Naked City The show spawned by the movie, which created the model for Law & Order and other similar shows.
The Music
Miles Davis: Kind of Blue
The best jazz record ever made, and it presages the Cool West Coast movement that is the period for our game.
The best jazz record ever made, and it presages the Cool West Coast movement that is the period for our game.
Miles Davis: Sketches of Spain
Put it on, have a listen, and you'll soon be transported miles away.
Put it on, have a listen, and you'll soon be transported miles away.
Dexter Gordon: One Flight Up
A great exile recording made in Paris that I listened to a lot while writing the script.
A great exile recording made in Paris that I listened to a lot while writing the script.
Chet Baker: Witch Doctor (Live at the Lighthouse)
The Lighthouse was a jazz club along the seafront in Santa Monica. We used to use this track in our early presentations for the game.
The Lighthouse was a jazz club along the seafront in Santa Monica. We used to use this track in our early presentations for the game.
Oscar Petersen: On the Town With the Oscar Peterson Trio
I listened to this a lot when writing the overall plot for the game.
I listened to this a lot when writing the overall plot for the game.
The Authors
Raymond Chandler: The High Window, The Long Goodbye, and famously The Big Sleep
Subtle nods to these books can be found throughout the game.
Subtle nods to these books can be found throughout the game.
Dashiell Hammett: The Dain Curse, Red Harvest, and The Maltese Falcon
One of the greatest writers in crime fiction.
One of the greatest writers in crime fiction.
James Ellroy: L.A. Confidential, The Big Nowhere
It's hard not to recommend that you buy everything Ellroy has ever written. Ellroy creates complex, human, deeply flawed characters that you come to love--a genius.
It's hard not to recommend that you buy everything Ellroy has ever written. Ellroy creates complex, human, deeply flawed characters that you come to love--a genius.
James Lee Burke: A Stained White Radiance
For someone who can't write prose, reading his novels is very humbling.
For someone who can't write prose, reading his novels is very humbling.
James M. Cain: Double Indemnity (screenplay for the film by Chandler)
Funnily enough, this and The Postman Always Ring Twice are the two defining novels of an everyman being manipulated by a beautiful woman.
Funnily enough, this and The Postman Always Ring Twice are the two defining novels of an everyman being manipulated by a beautiful woman.
Nathanael West: The Day of the Locust
It's still the definitive novel of the hope and despair of the early Hollywood process.
It's still the definitive novel of the hope and despair of the early Hollywood process.
The Locations
The Mocambo Club
A famous LA night spot on the Sunset Strip, the Mocambo was a hangout for the rich and famous and was renowned for the nefarious events that would take place there.
A famous LA night spot on the Sunset Strip, the Mocambo was a hangout for the rich and famous and was renowned for the nefarious events that would take place there.
Brown Derby
Another 1940s LA landmark with caricatures of Hollywood stars covering the walls.
Another 1940s LA landmark with caricatures of Hollywood stars covering the walls.
Hall of Records
We wanted to do a Chinatown moment where a character is searching the files, so we had to re-create the original Hall of Records, which was demolished long ago.
We wanted to do a Chinatown moment where a character is searching the files, so we had to re-create the original Hall of Records, which was demolished long ago.
Egyptian Theatre
I've always loved the Egyptian Theatre and Grauman's Chinese Theatre, but I had never seen a film there, so we made sure to use them as interior locations during cases in the game.
I've always loved the Egyptian Theatre and Grauman's Chinese Theatre, but I had never seen a film there, so we made sure to use them as interior locations during cases in the game.
Central Police Station
Like much of the Bunker Hill side of downtown LA, it has now all but disappeared, but it was fun researching what the building was like, including the attached Central Receiving Hospital.
Like much of the Bunker Hill side of downtown LA, it has now all but disappeared, but it was fun researching what the building was like, including the attached Central Receiving Hospital.
The game is whole with its use of 1940s type music, as well as its realistic sounds. The use of speech is similar to this time period and and the sounds of cars etc make you feel like you are in this city. The persuasive purposes of this game are to make the player think into the subtle facial expressions of people, and to doubt others truths. It makes the player really observe their surroundings to find all the evidence.
The effectiveness of this game is almost absolute. The amount of detail put into making this game incredibly interactive shines throughout, and the classic 1940s feel to the game puts you right in the midst of the action.
LA Noire Gameplay
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YF47oVUxJXI
will wright
http://www.will-wright.com/
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I have been set an additional task. Study a game listed or one of your choice meeting the expectations of procedural rhetoric and answer the following questions:
What are the rules of the system?
• What is the significance of these rules (over other
rules)?
• What claims about the world do these rules make?
• How do I respond to those claims?
I chose to play a recommended game by my lecturer called 'Save the Whale'
The games objectives are simple; link the water pipes together to add up to 10 to raise the water level and free the whale into the sea.
The game has been made by Green Peace, targeting children, to create personal awareness on the death of whales from being washed ashore or being hunted by whalers, making them an endangered species.
http://www.ictgames.com/save_the_whale_v4.html
The aim of the game is literally to 'save the whale'. The aim of the game is to connect pipes adding up to 10. It gives children the chance to learn and know that saving whales is a good thing, and they must respect them.
The game has no subliminal messages as far as I can see, and Green Peace are not hypnotizing children with polictical messages.
http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=grand-theft-auto-is-good
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