Schulzzug - The Game

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Schulzzug - The Game is a computer game that had a certain distribution and popularity in Germany from the beginning to the middle of 2017. The game was created during the first so-called " SPD - Hackathon ". A six-person team is said to have developed it in just 18 hours. The idea built on the initial popularity of the former candidate for chancellor Martin Schulz . After his nomination for the comparison in public, strategists of the SPD launched that Martin Schulz steers into the Chancellery like a train that nobody can stop - a metaphor for the fact that Schulz and the SPD will "definitely" win the 2017 federal election .

The game was controversial in its original version. The game was also considered relatively infantile; the player steered the eponymous "Schulzzug" with the chancellor candidate Martin Schulz as a train driver and is supposed to steer him into the chancellery. He has to avoid obstacles and collect coins. However, not only barriers blocked the way for the train driver Schulz, people who represented the politicians Donald Trump , Frauke Petry and Vladimir Putin are also standing in the original version on the tracks and had to be run over by the player.

Following public criticism, the game was then defused in the online version and people running over were removed from the game.

At the latest after the short-term so-called "Schulz-Hype" has subsided, i. H. With the collapse of the polls and popularity ratings, as well as the later quite clear election failure, the game became more and more a burden for the SPD and an occasion for ridicule by the political opponent.

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Controversial computer game. The "Schulzzug" no longer runs over Petry and Trump. Die Welt , March 21, 2017.
  2. ↑ Raffael Bart: #SPDhack. Choo! Choo! The Schulz train is rolling. BR puls , March 22, 2017.
  3. ↑ Markus Böhm: Excitement about playing with the SPD candidate for chancellor. Developers remove Frauke Petry from Schulzzug-Game. Spiegel Online , March 22, 2017.
  4. ^ Udo Lewalter: PD Hackathon. Schulzzug: Computer game overrun Petry and Trump. Computer picture , March 22, 2017.
  5. ↑ Internet hype. “Schulz-Zug” cannot be stopped in the network. FAZ , March 17, 2017.
  6. ↑ "Schulzzug" rolls over Petry, Trump and Putin - SPD video game causes a stir. The Huffington Post , March 21, 2017.
  7. ↑ In search of the Schulzzug, article on Deutschlandfunk.de