Good news and bad news...

The website was down the other day. That's the bad news.

We got the email below from Michael Sturino that day which I like because it says a lot about how people are using the game. The technical problem was fixed that same day.

Here's the note from Michael (posted with his permission):

My name is Michael Sturino and I teach collegel level government and politics in central New Jersey. One of my best lessons involves my students taking part in the Redistricting Game in which you created. I used the game just last night to test for any last minute bugs and all went well. However, the redistrictinggame.org website has been down all day and I was curious to see if you had any idea of if and when the site would be back on-line. Every year I hype up the interactive nature of the game and my students usually get extremely pumped to take part in the learning experience of actually being state legislators going through the gerrymandering process. I truly appreciate any information or assistance you could provide with this situation.

Remember Krist Novoselic from the band Nirvana?

I had a great conversation with Krist Novoselic, formerly of the band Nirvana, now chair of FairVote.org, this morning. FairVote is the leading election reform group and a friend of The Redistricting Game. Krist wrote a great blog post here and discusses the game.

The Redistricting Game in higher ed

We have learned that The Redistricting Game has been used for assignments in political science courses at University of Colorado, Yale, UC San Diego, and Stanford. Very pleased to hear this.

Great article about The Redistricting Game on DML Central

This article is mostly about Dr. Kareem Crayton who was our amazing political science research advisor on The Redistricting Game. Kareem provided the expertise on redistricting that we, as game designers, needed to make the game accurate. Full article here.

More press for The Redistricting Game

Another article that cite the game

Featured in Philadelphia Daily News

Another article came out recently which cites The Redistricting Game as a resource to those interested in understanding redistricting reform.

Redistricting Game chose for OnlineColleges.net 50 Great list

OnlineColleges.net featured The Redistricting Game in their list of "50 Great Sites for Serious, Educational Games". The list is very well curated as a who's who of the top serious games. Honored to be included!