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SimCity Societies More Green Than Gore?

At the New York Times "dot earth" blog, Andrew C. Revkin muses on the forthcoming SimCity Societies and its possible impact on attitudes about global warming. Revkin speculates that the game might be more influential than the Nobel-inducing book/film/lecture smörgåsbord An Inconvenient Truth.

I have some reservations about BP's sponsorship of clean energy in the game (or more properly their un-sponsorship of dirty energy), but a sophisticated understanding of pollution ecology certainly should be easier to culture in a dynamic interactive model than in an expository text.

Will Game's Impact Surpass 'Inconvenient Truth'?

4:40 PM on Thu Nov 15 2007
By bogost
1,954 views, 26 comments

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Will Wright on Designing Simulation Interfaces

Speaking of SimCity, here's a summary of a talk by Will Wright on Designing User Interfaces for Simulation. Among other things, Wright addresses the question of exposing the simulation model, which often comes up in criticisms of the game (after the jump).

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10:00 AM on Wed Nov 14 2007
By bogost
2,351 views, 12 comments

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OLPC SimCity to allow simulation mods

One Laptop Per Child fans probably know that today is the first day of the Give One Get One program. Donate $399 to provide an XO laptop to a child in a developing country, and you'll also get one for the developing child in your house. $200 of the donation is even tax-deductible.

Last week EA announced that they are donating the original SimCity for use on the OLPC. Don Hopkins, who did the Unix, Linux, and now OLPC ports of SimCity, recently published his thoughts about how the new version of the game might allow kids to modify the underlying simulation model.

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4:00 PM on Mon Nov 12 2007
By bogost
2,367 views, 17 comments

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Will Wright To Receive BAFTA Fellowship

For the first time in the history of the British Academy of Film and Television Arts, the Fellowship - the Academy's highest accolade - will be bestowed upon a member of the video game industry. SimCity creator Will Wright is rightly receiving the honor at this year's British Academy Video Game Awards, taking place at London's Battersea Evolution on October 23rd.
Hilary Bevan Jones, Chairman of the Academy said "Will's immense, creative body of work and his continued contribution to the industry make him a most worthy recipient of the Fellowship and being such a pioneer, we are thrilled that he will be the first person to receive this honour".
Past winners of the Fellowship include Alfred Hitchcock, Charlie Chaplin, and Steven Spielberg. Congratulations Mr. Wright. Couldn't have happened to a more deserving bloke. More »

9:40 AM on Mon Oct 15 2007
By Mike Fahey
942 views, 18 comments

Latest by Darthvinder: I was thinking that he was going to become a member of the Bad-Ass Free Trade Agreement when I realized that he created it. more »

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SimCity Turned into Japanese Erotic Game

What was missing in SimCity? Hot spots for dating and "adult goods." With Batsu Batsu na Kanojo no Tsukurikata, erotic games maker Kiss is picking up where Will Wright left off. The game features traditional dating sim elements plus a "city development system" that is reminiscent of SimCity. What's different is that you're goal isn't to make citizens happy or foster an active economy, but focusing on creating dating spots like restaurants, theme parks and "adult goods" shops to woo ladies at. The official site is scant on info, so we're not quite sure how extensive this SimCity bit is or if it's just a gimmick. Still, the idea that you're building amusement parks, restaurants and adults-only stores to court game heroines is HILARIOUS. Once more screenshots surface, we shall post them. Oh yes, we shall.
Batsu Batsu [Kiss via Heisei Democracy]

1:00 AM on Thu Aug 23 2007
By Brian Ashcraft
7,022 views, 39 comments

Latest by NihonTiger90: Man, everything is being turned into erotic games. Nothing is safe anymore. more »

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The 10 Most Important Video Games

Henry Lowood, the curator of the Stanford University History of Science and Technology Collections, announced this past week a list of the 10 Most Important Video Games of All Time. This game canon has been created to preserve to cultural and historical significance of gaming. The list is a result of a collaboration between Lowood, Warren Spector, Steve Meretzky, academic researcher Matteo Bittani and gaming journalist Christopher Grant from Joystiq, and represents the games we must protect at all costs...our cultural artifacts. More »

12:40 PM on Mon Mar 12 2007
By Mike Fahey
5,707 views, 105 comments

Latest by Polka.Your.Eyes.Out: i just read "don't let the pigeon drive the bus" to my toddler! haha. it's a good one ("again" she says to me about 5 times and then moves on to another). more »

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Sim City DS Screens

As we've seen, the new SimCity coming for Nintendo DS will feature Wil Wright himself as your host and tutor and over on the NeoGAF forums, poster PantherLotus, has uploaded some new screens from the highly addictive city building game. More »

10:00 AM on Sun Jan 7 2007
By fdemarco
909 views, 17 comments

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Will Wright in Your Pocket

GameBrink has posted the box art and some new screens of the Japanese version of SimCity DS, which include the first look at the game's own anime tour guide, encephalitic Will Wright. His head is so huge! If the game ever gets released stateside there'd better be a bobble head preorder promotion. More »

11:40 AM on Thu Dec 28 2006
By Mike Fahey
306 views, 17 comments

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Sim City Office Furniture

When the biggest publisher of Dutch internet content Isle Media was relocating to a new, short-term office, the company decided to have fun with the location's interior design. The duo known as WATdesign were brought in to make something fun and cheap. The result? A SimCity-like pixelated interior. Huge stickers were stuck on aluminum sheets to brighten up the work environment. For example, British phone booths hide a cabinet, a pixel ice cream truck is the serving area and telegraph poles conceal wiring and plugs. Two words: super cool.
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5:20 PM on Sun Apr 23 2006
By Brian Ashcraft
336 views, 3 comments

Latest by Pimski: It's Ilse Media, not Isle. Pfew, that was an important comment... more »