What have these games accomplished?

SuperStruct: Had players sign up for six weeks and were asked to imagine living in a world without oil and document the experience. They were able to convince 1,700 people to do this, the gamers created thousands of videos and blog posts explaining how they were playing the game and coming up with creative solutions to the problem. This may seem a bit too exploited because many people have access to this movement however, I think it's a great way to outreach the program to many others across the globe.




*So how did this move into the real world?
A: When we had the real gas crisis in the United States a year later, the people who had played the game where able to implement their oil-saving techniques that they had learned from the game. The IFTF reached out to some of these people and found out that they had a salvaged more oil with a strategy in place and coped better that their neighbors.