SimCity donated to OLPC project
Nov 12th, 2007 by dabloguiman
I think this is a great move by Electronic Arts. The original version of the SimCity computer game will be donated to the One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) project so that it can be distributed to schoolchildren in developing countries on OLPC’s XO laptop.
Don Hopkins, the man responsible for the original multiplayer Unix port of the game, is also responsible for porting SimCity to the OLPC laptop platform.
According to Hopkins,
“The goal is to enable the open-source community to renovate SimCity and take it in new educational directions, by applying Seymour Papert’s ideas about constructionist education, Alan Kay’s ideas about interactive user interfaces and object-oriented programming, Ben Shneiderman’s ideas about direct manipulation and info visualization, and many exciting ideas about multiplayer games, blogging, storytelling, game mods, player created content, and lessons learned from World of WarCraft, The Sims, Spore, etc,”
SimCity can really be a great learning experience, and with the open source community and educators from around the world now behind the project I expect it will bring children many new fun and valuable educational experiences.
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