Make your own Jan. 6, 2021. Now, the infamous day in American history has its very own tabletop game—Capitol insurrection and all. Players get to choose which side they’re on: the red team, whose goal is to take over the Capitol and hunt down Vice President Mike Pence; or the blue team, aka the police officers fending off the MAGA army. Creators describe the large-scale, 20-player game—which had been in development for a year—as “a live performance installation that merges art, game design, and immersive storytelling.” The creators, the american vicarious [sic], hosted a successful gameplay in New York City in late January, with the installation’s next stop in London. The game features a 14-foot-wide and 5-foot-tall Capitol building and has 10,000 hand-painted protestors alongside 2,000 police officers. The game, designed by Alessio Cavatore, “is not just to win but to confront the fragility of democracy and the challenges of unity in a polarized society.”
