Redistricting Game

[Walter Gorski]

Hello,

I am a high school teacher of government and politics.  

The Redistricting Game, now, due to the demise of Adobe Flash, is no longer easily accessible.  It was by far an away the best game/tutorial/learning tool I ever used to help students understand redistricting.

I am wondering how this game might be resurrected - so that it is again easy to access.

I have no experience programming, so that may affect how someone responds.

Cheers.

[Drew Crecente]

I'm sorry to hear about this but can appreciate the problem; we've had many of our games suffer the same fate. However, depending on the game there might be some workarounds. One thing we have been able to do with some of our Flash games is make them available as an installable game to play locally on a computer. However, games that rely on online features or that will only run on a specified domain might not be very easy to make available.

Also, without knowing more it is difficult to know if there would be any licensing (legal) restrictions against making any changes. If you can send me a link or other info I would be happy to see to look into it further.

Best,

- Drew

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[LaToya Smith]

My team is currently working on developing an online game for 4th and 5th grade math students with accessibility feature considerations. Is this game a download or strictly web-based? If web-based, one option might be Equally Ai. We recently added the custom code to our websites to help improve accesibility and plan to use it on our new WebApp as well.

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On Friday, November 12, 2021 at 2:57:54 PM UTC-5 coa...@gmail.com wrote:

[Walter Gorski]

Hi Drew,

Thanks for replying.

Here is l link to the game: 

http://www.redistrictinggame.org/

Sincerely,

Walter Gorski

Deer Valley HS - Law And Justice Academy Lead Teacher

[Jonathon Rios]

The game seems to work fine using Ruffle, a Flash Player emulator. I have it installed on my web browser for cases just like this. 

To try it for yourself, click here https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/ruffle/donbcfbmhbcapadipfkeojnmajbakjdc or search for "Ruffle" in the Chrome Web Store

So, the short answer to getting the game running for your class again:
1. Submit approval for the download and installation of Ruffle to classroom computers
2. Download and install the extension (or desktop version if you please)
3. Go to the webpage and play (or download the game and distribute it to your students)

[John Say]

Wow cool to know!

John

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[Sarah Larges]

Have you used the Ruffle emulator recently. I had our Tech department allow the install and now when I go to the game, you can't actually play the mission. Any thoughts or ideas to try? 

Thanks! 

[Jonathon Rios]

I see what you mean. The next “viable” option is to try is to use a standalone Windows install like Lightspark or other Flash Players listed here. But that may be harder to convince IT to allow. If you are running on Chromebooks, you may be out of options since the standalone players are Windows only.

But we aren't out of ideas. I've emailed Chris Swain, the project lead of The Redistricting Game, to see if he'll port the game to another browser friendly game engine. Hopefully he'll respond and provide alternatives to get the game running. I used the email found here https://iovine-young.usc.edu/people/chris-swain

Cross fingers!