Center for Strategic Communication

Grand Theft Caliphate / Daesh

[ by Charles Cameron — an oriental carpet video game, would you believe it? — and one from IS ] . ** The intersection of war and games is a fascinating one. You may recall the Stone Throwers game, built at the start of the Al-Aqsa Intifada, and set against...

AirTrains at the Antipodes

[ by Charles Cameron — playfully expressing his usual preference for play over terror ] . In the upper panel, above, we have Inspire magazine’s take on the San Francisco AirTrain — an ad for mayhem. In the lower panel we see an ad for Airtrain...

Hipbone’s Games, Emlyn’s critique

[ by Charles and Emlyn Cameron — my thousandth ZP post, and his first — in which my son schools me in making my games more responsive to the requirements of decision-support ] . Alexander Calder, "Yellow Sail", 1950, Weatherspoon Art Museum,...