So what if the only way to reduce crime is building police stations. (okay, that's over the top, but very few people have a grasp of how debt really works) What's the optimum road layout? Is it cost-effective to use parks to offset the unhappiness of high taxes? Will that nuclear power plant allow for greater growth in future years, or will the cost of replacing it in 50 years bankrupt me? Hell, any game that teaches people to budget and stay out of debt is a good thing-imagine what the national debt would be like if the President had played SC. The reason SC is educational is because it teaches skills like creative problem-solving, planning, and risk-reward tradeoffs. No simulation can totally model the complexities of a city. People who complain that SimCity and its successors don't accurately model city building and management are missing the point.
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Now, do we want a world full of egotistical ten years who are jerks to those who follow them "Just 'cause." I think not! I also raised taxes as high as possible without having people get too mad. I'm going to be a jerk." So I started putting airports right smack in the middle of residential sectors, putting a single factory in the middle of a commercial district, making roads that could easily go straight zigzag, and making huge detours when I could easily put an inter-section. When I realized that I was doing TOO good of a job, I decided, "That's it. I was extremely creative in my infrastructure. My excellent management skills made sure everything was compact and efficient. I always managed a surplus, and the city could keep growing and growing. No crime, no pollution, no trash, no fires, no NOTHIN'. When I first got my copy of Sim City years ago, I was such a jerk as a mayor. Seymour Papert's and Alan Kay's ideas about constructionist education and teaching kids to program." ' frameworks and scripting environments - tools with which children themselves could create their own content.' The long term agenda of the OLPC SimCity project is to convert SimCity into a scriptable Python module, integrate it with the OLPC's Sugar user interface and Cairo rendering library. SJ Klein, director of content for the OLPC, called on game developers to create
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OLPC SimCity is based on the X11 TCL/Tk version of SimCity for Unix developed and adapted to the OLPC by Don Hopkins, and the GPL open source code will soon be released under the name It's also been used in the Future City Competition by seventh- and eighth-grade students to foster engineering skills and inspire students to explore futuristic concepts and careers in engineering. SimCity is the epitome of constructionist educational games, and has been widely used by educators to unlock and speed-up the transformational skills associated with creative thinking. SimHacker writes "Electronic Arts has donated the original 'classic' version of Will Wright's popular SimCity game to the One Laptop Per Child project.
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