Sandra Day O'Connor: Indie Game Developer

Posted by Derek Yu Wed, 04 Jun 2008 22:31:00 GMT

Sandra Day O' Connor

Sandra Day O’Connor, the first female Justice of the United States Supreme Court and all-around badass (now retired as the former), was the keynote speaker yesterday at Games For Change, a three-day festival for “social impact” games held at Parsons The New School For Design (that is an awkward name) in New York City. In her keynote, O’Connor revealed a project she’s working on – Our Courts, an “interactive online civics curriculum” (otherwise known as “games”) that will educate students about the United States’ legal and judiciary systems by letting them tackle real world problems. The project will launch in 2009.

When asked what her favorite video game was, O’Connor paused very briefly before closing her eyes, leaning into the mic, and whispering, “Cave Story.”

(Just kidding, but that’s still pretty cool, innit?)

(Source: Chris Baker, via Game|Life)

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  1. rinkuhero said about 4 hours later:

    I believe there was a game where real cases came up and you had to decide guilty or innocent based on the evidence that real juries were confronted with, and it’d let you know how close your decisions came to the actual decisions. I forget the name of the game, but it sounds similar to what she’s talking about.

  2. PHeMoX said about 4 hours later:

    And in other game industry related news, good news as it seems Jack “I-ARE-BAN-GTA” Thompson might be banned from practicing law for the next decade instead as punishment for misbehavior in court and so on.

  3. Alan Gordon said about 5 hours later:

    Cave story ripoff.

  4. Secret Admirer said about 5 hours later:

    I wish to marry this Woman

  5. Mazapán said about 6 hours later:

    I heard she beat Hell in under 3 minutes.

  6. Rival said about 6 hours later:

    Cave story,FTW!

  7. GirlFlash said about 6 hours later:

    @ Mazapán:

    she did it with minimal items and 3 hp too!

  8. Chase said about 8 hours later:

    This is a good idea, and if they can get it to work, it might just be effective on young Americans. maybe.

  9. Lim-Dul said about 9 hours later:

    Tim: http://objection.mrdictionary.net/go.php?n=2612430

  10. yrmom said about 12 hours later:

    I hope it’s a real judge simulator, where you can seat without pants, masturbate during trial, inflict fees to the attorneys for frivolous reasons and be a general bully with everybody.

  11. HikariExpress said about 14 hours later:

    @Mazapán: I also heard that she burned the rope. But I’m not sure if she could be capable of such an Herculean feat.

  12. Alevice said about 16 hours later:

    BURNING THE ROPE?! As in that rope in You Have to Burn the Rope? What for, anyway? Last I recall, there was a Grinning Colossus in there you had to defeta, which I sill can’t, by the way, even aftear reading the whol walkthroughs and such.

    But yeah, I fell for the Cave Story joke (I missed the tiny footer)

  13. Valkyrie said about 17 hours later:

    Pssh. She beat the damn colossus WITHOUT burning the rope. That’s breaking the rules, badass style.

  14. John said about 18 hours later:

    I always wanted to beat the colossus without burning the rope. Damn her.

  15. shinygerbil said about 19 hours later:

    Objection!!

    These “games” had better contain many logical fallacies and loopholes, but also really lovable main characters!!

  16. Golds said about 20 hours later:

    Man, I thought Sandra Day would be more down with Dwarf Fortress

  17. BeamSplashX said about 22 hours later:

    There is no judicial precedent for Dwarf Fortress. However, once it’s complete it will become law.

    The only law.

  18. Evilish said 1 day later:

    Am I the only one who thought of Phoenix Wright when I read this?

  19. Sergio said 1 day later:

    Is that a joke Evilish?

  20. Lim-Dul said 1 day later:

    Evilish - have you seen my link? ;-)

  21. doobo said 1 day later:

    Hey guys this sounds like this nintendo game with the lawyers. Also : she’s hot.

  22. shinygerbil said 3 days later:

    @Evilish:

    Objection!!!

    I already clearly stated “Objection!!”. ;)

    @doobo:

    she’s the new Mia Fey

  23. noname said 4 days later:

    Now that Jack Thompson is disbarred, maybe he can use this game to reeducate himself in the ways of the law.

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