Whilst admiring Nicholas Hunter’s work at MIT, I stumbled across the download directory for Revolution. Revolution is a role playing game that puts students into the heart of the American Revolution at the grassroots level. Students choose to play a townsperson and experience a simulation of revolutionist tendencies at the grass roots level.
Revolution is one of those games I’ve read quite a bit about. Squire and Jenkins have mentioned it in numerous papers, as have others. I am very interested in getting to play the game.
Revolution is a modification of the Neverwinter Nights game engine. In order to run Revolution, a copy of NWN must be installed on your computer. Rather than battling dragons and other baddies, the NWN level editor was used to create the colonial environment in which the action takes place.
Hunter was the lead programmer in this endeavor, thus the links from him to the download directory. He writes on his portfolio page that the Revolution files overwrite some of the key NWN files:
Warning: This will overwrite some critical files for Neverwinter Nights that will require a “Critical Rebuild” patch to restore. While NWN is still playable in this state, it looks very odd. The game must be played as one of the seven premade characters that the zip file provides: Robert Carter Nicholas, William Waddill, John Lamb, Cathy Grimes, Dan, Hannah, or Margaret Chadwell.
The file to download is revolution.zip.
