Starvard
A town of triangles and squares
Drag unhappy shapes around a town and watch mild preferences divide it.
In this small playable story, triangles and squares share a town, and each one only wants a few neighbours like itself. You drag the unhappy shapes to new homes and watch what happens.
Surprisingly mild preferences add up to a deeply divided town. The good news comes later, when you find out what small changes can undo it.
The playable story itself, embedded from ncase.me. Released under CC0 by its makers.
Open Parable of the Polygons on its own site
Try this first
Drag just one unhappy shape at a time and watch the town's mood as you go. When the story asks what would fix things, try the smallest change you can think of before reaching for a big one.
Good to know
By Vi Hart and Nicky Case, released under CC0. It playfully demonstrates Schelling's model of segregation, a famous idea from economics, with no maths required.
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Treasures are wonderful free things made by other people. Starvard gathers them with admiration; the credit is all theirs.