Retired U.S. Supreme Court justice Sandra Day O'Connor has worked with a Madison-based company to create the iCivics games project, a compilation of games that aims to teach us how our government works.

Filament Games has created several titles for the iCivics project to help students gain more knowledge about the government and remedy civic ignorance, according to the Associated Press.

Based on the information I got from the iCivics website, the game aims to help the education of students by providing the tools and information needed to for civic participation though cutting edge technology.

iCivics games are also intended to assist civics teachers by providing a new media to aid them in their task of educating students.

The iCivics games include the following titles:

1.      Do I Have a Right? – A game where you run your own law firm that specialized in     constitutional law.

2.      Executive Command – A game where you can be the president.

3.      Supreme Decision – A game that teaches how the Supreme Court works.

4.      Branches of Power – A game that allows you to control the three branches of the government.

5.      LawCraft – A game where you play as a member of the Congress.

O’Connor has widely promoted the iCivics games and it was recently unveiled at the Games for Change festival in New York.

You can play the iCivics games at http://www.icivics.org/.