{"id":9974,"date":"2017-10-19T05:45:05","date_gmt":"2017-10-19T13:45:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.palada.net\/index.php\/2017\/10\/19\/news-3747\/"},"modified":"2017-10-19T05:45:05","modified_gmt":"2017-10-19T13:45:05","slug":"news-3747","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.palada.net\/index.php\/2017\/10\/19\/news-3747\/","title":{"rendered":"Destroy Oil Pipelines as a Thunderbird in this New Video Game"},"content":{"rendered":"

Credit to Author: Jacob Dub\u00e9| Date: Thu, 19 Oct 2017 13:00:00 +0000<\/strong><\/p>\n

In Thunderbird Strike<\/i><\/a>, a new side-scrolling game that launches at the ImagineNATIVE<\/a> festival this week in Toronto, players can control a thunderbird\u2014a symbol in several Indigenous cultures\u2014that destroys as much of the oil industry’s machinery and pipelines as it possibly can. And it’s so satisfying<\/i>.<\/p>\n

The game was created by Elizabeth LaPens\u00e9e<\/a>, an Anishinaabe, M\u00e9tis, and Irish games developer, and assistant professor of media and information at Michigan State University. She told me in an interview that she wanted to create a game where Indigenous players could reclaim some agency around oil pipelines, even if through a video game.<\/p>\n

“Especially when we’re talking in the context of pipelines, and the oil industry, there are some wins we can have. But ultimately protectors will be pushed out and the processes are going to move forward. It’s happening with mining and it’s happening with pipelines,” LaPens\u00e9e told me over the phone. <\/p>\n

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