Politworld is an educational game that is specifically designed for use in school lessons for the 8th/9th grade. The idea of Politworld combines classic approaches from planning and simulation games as well as elements from current strategy games in order to make political events and systems as well as the complexity of international relations tangible for students.
Thanks to its thematically modular structure, Politworld can be used variably in terms of both time and content and can therefore be used in lessons as well as during project days or weeks. The game is accompanied by a teaching script designed specifically for this purpose, which provides material for an entire series of lessons. On the one hand, this script is intended to deepen the knowledge acquired in the game, but at the same time it encourages students to find out more about the topic of politics in order to be able to use this knowledge profitably in the game.
The aim of Politworld is to give students a challenging and contemporary access to the knowledge area of politics and political systems using the medium of computer games. Politworld and the associated teaching script consciously distance themselves from traditional forms of teaching. Playing and acting together, but also taking part in a complex and exciting simulation and associated simulation games in which the whole class is actively involved, is intended to arouse the students' interest and promote their understanding of political and democratic processes.