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Teaching "greenness" To Kids Via Games.
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A popular game has embraced the awareness of climate changeto their players.
Sim City now has scenarios that will show the player the effects
of urban sprawl, dams/flooding, overpopulation, using polluting coal, etc.
"Climate change is coming to SimCity.
A new version of the city-building computer game that factors in real-world consequences of energy choices has won endorsements from Twitter co-founder Biz Stone and the director of the Academy Award-winning documentary "An Inconvenient Truth."
http://www.physorg.c...ge-climate.html
“We are updating SimCity with technology of today and introducing it to a new generation of gamers,” Maxis studio senior vice president Lucy Bradshaw said at this year’s Game Developers Conference in San Francisco.
Source: Planetsave (http://s.tt/16Wi5)
“We are updating SimCity with technology of today and introducing it to a new generation of gamers,” Maxis studio senior vice president Lucy Bradshaw said at this year’s Game Developers Conference in San Francisco.
“It gets under your skin; exposes you to the idea of cause and effect and that choices you make have repercussions,” she said.
Along with rich 3-D graphics, the game will have a new simulation engine that enhances its realism and extends ramifications of urban design decisions past borders to affect neighboring cities.
“In ‘SimCity’ resources are finite, you struggle with decisions people are struggling with today in the real world and your decisions can have a global impact,” Bradshaw said.
“Be a polluter and you are ultimately going to affect your friends’ cities… Will you have the wealthiest, fittest, greenest city ever or the sludgiest, most yikes-worthy SimCity ever?”
Source: Planetsave (http://s.tt/16Wi5)
I applaud the efforts. What do you think?
