In 1970, college-age men were being sent off to war without being able to say anything about it in federal elections. What's Your Number is a choose-your-own adventure game where the draft chooses your adventure for you. The game presents different scenarios that make the player contemplate the power to vote and what one can do to take action and repair broken systems.
Jam Site:
Jam year:
2020
Diversifiers:
Don’t touch my Dice
Unsung heroines
Platforms:
Web standard (HTML5, Java, JavaScript, Flash)
Tools and Technologies:
Twine
Credits:
Writer and designer: Christopher Totten
Parts of the Vietnam story path heavily adapted and paraphrased from "What it was like to be drafted" by Mark Leepson. In New York Times, July 21, 2017. (https://www.nytimes.com/2017/07/21/opinion/what-it-was-like-to-be-drafte...)
Images gathered from:
The Kent State University Libraries, Kent State Shooting: Digital Archive (used with permission)
The Library of Congress
HistoryNet.com including images from the personal archive of Mark Leepson.
Archive.gov via Wikimedia Commons
Game Stills:
