Anti-war wargame Chicago 68 is an impeccably timed board game [Video]

In the summer of 2020, filmmaker Yoni Goldstein looked out the window of his home to see a line of police officers advancing on demonstrators — neighbors of his who had taken to the streets to protest the killing of George Floyd. In that moment, his mind flashed to another image, one that was burned into the memories of many Chicagoans like a sunspot: the protests surrounding the 1968 Democratic National Convention, where a similar line of powder-blue helmets advanced on a similar line of demonstrators.

Thinking of activists in action, both old and new, planted the seed of an idea in the rookie gamemaker’s mind. And the result of that pang of inspiration — a board game titled Chicago ’68 — launches on Kickstarter Aug. 6.

On a call with Polygon in the first week of July, Goldstein described Chicago ’68 as a kind of “anti-war wargame.” The game pits …