Social Impact Games

[Tom Johnson (via Google Docs)]

If you're interested in games with redeeming social value, check out

Social Impact Games
http://www.socialimpactgames.com/index.php

A very nice jump station to games of this sort:
View Games by Category
Education + Learning
Games<http://www.socialimpactgames.com/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=index&catid=2&topic=&allstories=1>
Public Policy Games<http://www.socialimpactgames.com/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=index&catid=13&topic=&allstories=1>
Political + Social
Games<http://www.socialimpactgames.com/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=index&catid=10&topic=&allstories=1>
Health + Wellness
Games<http://www.socialimpactgames.com/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=index&catid=4&topic=&allstories=1>
Business Games<http://www.socialimpactgames.com/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=index&catid=15&topic=&allstories=1>
Military Games<http://www.socialimpactgames.com/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=index&catid=9&topic=&allstories=1>
Advergames<http://www.socialimpactgames.com/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=index&catid=14&topic=&allstories=1>
Commercial (COTS)
Games<http://www.socialimpactgames.com/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=index&catid=5&topic=&allstories=1>
Projected + Upcoming<http://www.socialimpactgames.com/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=index&catid=12&topic=&allstories=1>

-tj

On 10/24/06, Stephen Guerin <stephen.guerin at redfish.com> wrote:

>
> Hey Jochen,
>
> > Is someone interested in modifying an existing 3D engine for
> > agent based modeling ?
>
> We're doing small tests with the Blender Game Engine and Ogre3D for
> ABM/scientific visualization. In fact, there's now an announced migration
> path
> to Ogre3D to replacing Blender's older game rendering engine.
>
> A parallel track of ours is using Processing (http://www.processing.org)
> for
> projects that have different requirements/developer preferences. Not
> exactly a
> game engine but close enough for our purposes.
>
> -Steve
>
>
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To change something, build a new model that makes the
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