03 September 2024

Political Mess


Political Mess

The card game Political Mess (การเมืองจิ๋วๆ) was released in 2020 by Wise Box. It’s one of several recent games that satirise Thai politics. Similar card games with political themes include 1-2-3-4-5 I Love Coup, Thai Democracy Timeline Game, and Bangkok’s Big Brother (เราจะทำตามสัญญา).

Political Mess features four characters, illustrated as pixelated figures that evoke 8-bit video game graphics. The characters are based on political groups: a man in army fatigues carrying a rifle (representing coup leader Prayut Chan-o-cha), a man wearing orange (the colour of the Future Forward party, which relaunched as Move Forward), a man with a whistle (a reference to Suthep Thaugsuban, leader of the People’s Democratic Reform Committee), and a man in a red shirt using a loudhailer (as the United Front for Democracy Against Dictatorship protesters are known as red-shirts).

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Matthew Hunt said...

Wise Box Games: https://wiseboxgames.com

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