严格讲 IBM 这款 CityOne 是一款教育意义远大于休闲娱乐性质的 "serious game",
serious game 国内有人直翻成"严肃游戏",也有人翻成"学习导向数位游戏",
(当然后者听起来是比较好啦)
这套 CityOne 将用来协助玩家了解那些带动城市发展与成长的商业经营原理
(稍微看了一下内文,游戏策略部份还真是包罗万象,像是能源、水资源、银行跟零售业等)
IBM CityOne 官网:
http://www-01.ibm.com/software/solutions/soa/innov8/cityone/index.html
CityOne 预计今年秋季推出,也可在以下网页输入 E-Mail,届时游戏上线后,IBM 将会主动
通知给有登记 Mail 的玩家:
https://www.ibm.com/services/forms/signup.do?source=swg-spgnotify
消息来源:
IBM Announces Free City Management Educational Game
http://www.gamasutra.com/php-bin/news_index.php?story=28374
by Danny Cowan
May 4, 2010
At this week's Impact Conference in Las Vegas, IBM announced CityOne, an
upcoming serious game application designed to help players understand the
business principles that drive urban growth and development.
CityOne is a free strategy game that presents players with a number of
scenarios that address problems in the energy, water, banking, and retail
industries. Each mission must be approached with high-quality, economical
solutions, and the game encourages the implementation of smart growth
strategies that employ clean, efficient technology.
IBM cites an example scenario in which a city's water usage has increased at
twice the rate of population growth. To overcome the city's strained
resources and damaged infrastructure, players will "institute a Water
Management System that would include accurate real time data to make
decisions on delivering the highest water quality in the most economical way."
Banking scenarios similarly show the business benefits of mobile payments,
dynamic invoice, and micro-lending. Retail and energy industry missions will
focus on service reuse and process management.
"Serious games allow professionals to inherently comprehend system
interactions, and accurately model the potential business outcomes that can
result, in a way that no other medium can do," said Nancy Pearson, IBM vice
president of SOA, BPM and WebSphere. "CityOne will simulate the challenges
faced in a variety of industries so that businesses can explore a variety of
solutions and explore the business impact before committing resources."
CityOne will launch in the fall of 2010.