{"id":7197,"date":"2017-12-16T11:15:08","date_gmt":"2017-12-16T19:15:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/occupysf.net\/?p=7197"},"modified":"2017-12-16T11:15:08","modified_gmt":"2017-12-16T19:15:08","slug":"occupy-oakland-inspired-video-game-lets-play-cop-rioter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/2017\/12\/16\/occupy-oakland-inspired-video-game-lets-play-cop-rioter\/","title":{"rendered":"Occupy Oakland-inspired video game lets you play cop or rioter"},"content":{"rendered":"

By\u00a0Matier & Ross<\/a>\u00a0(sfchronicle.com)<\/p>\n

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An image from \u201cRiot: Civil Unrest.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Just in time for Christmas, the Occupy Oakland riots of 2011 have been immortalized in a new video game simulator called, \u201cRiot: Civil Unrest.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Players can be police, and choose \u201cwhether to use smoke grenades, rubber and plastic bullets, tasers or even live ammunition,\u201d among other tactical options.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

For what it\u2019s worth, hurling a reporter at a police line almost never works.<\/p>\n

According to the Merge Games promo, \u201crather than attempting to popularize violence to a desensitized video game generation, the developers set out to create a game in which force and violence work short term but patience and passive actions yield far more positive outcomes.\u201d<\/p>\n

Merge Games say it sold 10,000 copies in the first 24 hours \u2014 at $11.69 apiece, with the introductory discount.<\/p>\n

San Francisco Chronicle columnists Phillip Matier and Andrew Ross appear Sundays, Mondays and Wednesdays. Matier can be seen on the KPIX TV morning and evening news. He can also be heard on KCBS radio Monday through Friday at 7:50 a.m. and 5:50 p.m. Got a tip? Call (415) 777-8815, or email matierandross@sfchronicle.com. Twitter:\u00a0@matierandross<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

By\u00a0Matier & Ross\u00a0(sfchronicle.com) December 10, 2017   An image from \u201cRiot: Civil Unrest.\u201d Just in time for Christmas, the Occupy Oakland riots of 2011 have been immortalized in a new video game simulator called, \u201cRiot: Civil Unrest.\u201d Players can be police, and choose \u201cwhether to use smoke grenades, rubber and… Continue reading → <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7197"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7197"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7197\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7198,"href":"http:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7197\/revisions\/7198"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7197"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7197"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7197"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}