The Pipeline Pinball Energy Thrill Ride Game

Level One: Generate Energy Diversity

(Here's a script fragment from "Spies in the Oilsands" with Tarzana and Terra arguing about the stategy of playing Level One)
TERRA: Sure I'll show you how to play the game, I'll show you how to get all the alternative energy points.
TARZANA: Granola girl don't have a clue. Don't have a clue. See what you have to do ... You got fossil fuel points and you got alternative energy points. The idea is that you don't want to get your ball up into this green pipeline shoot or you open the stupid alternative energy targets. And you don't want that. You want to score fossil fuel points in the Oilsands.
TERRA: You want to get your balls up into that green pipeline because then those alternative energy targets open up. It's a little harder to begin with but it's worth it in the long run.
TARZANA: Whose side are you on?? • TERRA: Well, Sustainablity. • TARZANA: Progress. • TERRA: Sustainability • TARZANA: Progress.

Download it and Try it yourself ... Whose Side are You on??

Level Two: The Alberta Gamble

(Here's a script fragment from "Spies in the Oilsands" with Tarzana and Terra arguing about the stategy of playing Level One)
TERRA: Okay this is called The Alberta Gamble. Now while this is loading up, you'll see everyone who is interested in the oilsands is on the pinball game. Oilthirsty USA Russia Canada China India, they're all there. It's like any other pinball game you try to get points, right? These points? World demand and CO2 emissions.
TARZANA: Are they linked up.
TERRA: Well yeah. As world demand goes up, CO2 emissions go up. But CO2 emissions, as you'll notice, will go up way faster. And that is exactly what is contributing to our climate change. There you see that. We're getting these points. We're getting these points. Pretty predictable eh?
TARZANA: What a crock.

The Alberta Gamble level is predictable. Satisfy world demand in the oilsands and ramp up CO2 Emissions and Global Warming. Features a stellar cast of North American leaders -- Ed Stelmach, Stephen Harper, George Bush plus oil-thirsty developing superpowers India and China.

Concept and Game Design: Lori Shyba | Additional Artwork and Programming: Rich Theroux, Andrew Stagg, Sean Lynch.
Based on Future Pinball Game Engine

SEE My Research in 2-Minutes Flat Video.

SEE Ewan Nicolson's photographs of Tarzana and Terra on set at the iCentre.

SEE the Slide Show Gallery of images from the CCIT iCentre Presentation, April 2006, Calgary, Alberta

SEE THE VIDEO OF SPIES IN THE OILSANDS at the One-Act Play Festival.

SEE the GAME DESIGN VIDEO in Quicktime format | Watch the GAME DEMO in Quicktime format.

Read a recent article from UMagazine: Here's the link

Read the CCIT iCentre production Script and Storyboards. HTML | PDF

See Lori chatting up the game on CityTV.

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Special Thanks to:
Alberta Foundation for the Arts, Calgary Arts Development,
The University of Calgary, Special Projects Grant Committee; The Petroleum History Society Graduate Scholarship;
The University of Calgary, CCIT iCentre;
Foreign Affairs Canada, Research and Conference Fund; The University of Lethbridge; EMMEDIA Production Society