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Notes
  • This project was born out of a challenge I set myself to make a political game in the space of a weekend or so (it ended up taking a couple of weeks).
  • It’s partly inspired by the quote, often misattributed to Joseph Stalin, “The death of one man: that is a catastrophe. A hundred thousand deaths: that is a statistic!” by Kurt Tucholsky, a German satirist.
  • The game is driven by actual recorded data taken from data.techforpalestine.org, a horrific resource I didn’t know existed before embarking on making this—from the spawn rate of the various categories of people, to the numbers that appear in the results screen, to the details of individual people in the final screen.
    • I attempt to retrieve the latest summary data directly from the web first, but if that fails I fall back to figures from 2025-05-29.
  • The background image is a satellite photo of an actual region in Gaza prior to being bombed (Oct 2023). This overlays another photo of the region after it was bombed (Sep 2024), which is unveiled with a sprite mask every time you mouse click.
  • The background ambience is a random recording of a street in Gaza (from 2019 or earlier).
  • The occupations of the dead aren’t included in the data, so I can’t identify which qualify as medical and civil defence personnel. Therefore when mousing over those shapes in the final screen I opted to show "no info" instead. Journalists are covered by a separate json file that I was able to include.
  • The game’s title is meant to highlight the absurdity of bandying round the date October 7th. The sort of carnage the game is about could have taken place on any date since then if not prior, perhaps even today.
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Updated 13 hours ago
Published 2 days ago
StatusReleased
PlatformsHTML5, Windows, macOS
Authorlharoon
Made withUnity

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