One SimCity Per Child

[jason]

Originally published at Lemmingworks. You can comment here or there.

From Slashdot | One SimCity Per Child:

Electronic Arts has donated the original ‘classic’ version of Will Wright’s popular SimCity game to the One Laptop Per Child project. 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.

I love SimCity, and this is a good thing to share code, but the cultural values embedded in the ‘game’ is problematic. That said, since the game is being open sourced, anyone can fix it up to make it more inclusive. So I give it 2 thumbs up.

Comments

[moons-mistress.livejournal.com]

I'm amazed that they would do this, since they are still capable of selling this version of SimCity (and are continuing to sell it to gamers). This project seems to be striking a cord with even corporations that we're raised to believe care only about making money.

[complicittheory.livejournal.com]

Perhaps they can get a write-off for each copy given away. The tax deductions would be great. :)