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Photo Credit: Christy's World Kickstarter
Two B.C. teachers have created a board game called “Christy’s World” which takes aim at Christy Clark and the ongoing labour dispute between the government and teachers.
Created by Vancouver and Coquitlam’s Loren Letourneau and Jean Michel Oblette the game is a “race across British Columbia to shut down schools, privatize the industry and raise your ratings.”
“In the game you play as Christy, a clueless, tyrannical political wannabe without a conscience or a college degree who works tirelessly to become British Columbia's most grotesquely unpopular leader," reads the description. "Your objective is to crystallize power in an economic superclass by systematically destroying public education, privatizing industry and looking good while you do it.”
The teachers have launched the game on Kickstarter and hope to have the game printed by the start of the school year on September 2nd. The teachers have already reached their goal of $50 and have 18 backers with just over $134 raised.
A ‘stretch goal’ of $325 million has been established by the teachers as they jokingly say if they reach that goal they will be able to adequately fund the public education system.
The tongue and cheek campaign takes sharp aim at Clark, which is evident throughout the description of the Kickstarter campaign.
Photo Credit: Christy's World Kickstarter
“The game is already designed, illustrated, playtested, finalized and ready to email to backers. Honestly the worst that can happen to us is that Christy makes our game obsolete by handing in her resignation before we get funded...”
The creators add that “at this stage we are not planning to release Stadium Roof, Ethnic Vote or Northern Gateway Pipeline expansions for the game.”
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