This past week I spent time researching wealth inequality and the factors that lead to this issue and what can be done to make changes for the better. Designing a game around the challenge of wealth inequality is daunting as its not a fun subject, but it is an important one.
Creating a game based around the theme of wealth inequality will be a good tool to educate people on why there is this inequality and what can be done to try and fix it. Questions that i want to pose to the players include, why does such a small portion of the population have most of the control of wealth, if they do control a large portion of the wealth and are able to use that to influence governments economic and monetary policy how will the 99% ever be able to close the gap?
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Hi Shane!
Translating a topic as broad and observation based as wealth inequality may be a difficult task, because you'll need to narrow down what you want to do for the gameplay without too much to base it on. In my opinion, I believe it would be a good idea to find smaller examples of wealth inequality in the way you want to portray the subject, and make a game around that example. This might be a stronger approach because it would be difficult to cover the entire topic well in a small game, I believe.
Regardless, I'm interested to see which direction you'll choose to take, and wish you luck.