Choose your own adventurish, but reader creates dialogue with the book. Can see well received. Nice example of overlap lit and games.

Civ V mod as Fifa critique. World Cup is used as a "wonder"

When Russian artist El Lissitzky printed his 1920 Soviet propaganda poster "Beat the Whites with the Red Wedge," he had no idea it would become iconic. It was its bold symbolism that did the trick. The Russian civil war was reduced to a potent display of shape and space. The Bolsheviks were represented by a violent-red triangle that had stabbed ...

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Gov't sim, very cheap site license for 40 users.

journalism in dystopia

Designed to show conflict between realism and modernism. Can find the game here: http://www.gamezhero.com/games/avantgarde

Says 11+ for audience, but review is very promising

Bend lasers, description on this site. Actual game here - http://www.kongregate.com/games/GameScience/refraction

Kind of like the "Cost of Life" game only with the US at minimum wage. You don't get the sense there's much data behind it, though, just a series of bad luck choices that result in unexpected expenses.

Climate Change Sim

What are the principal factors under your control? Is it more of an environmental science or political science game?

Oil God (ish)