city simulator
EAT IT! City Simulator is an attempt to structure and analyse mechanisms of business models in the form of a game and through a prism of the food industry distribution model. The game consists of three parts:
- a website gathering information on food production and problems of the interests involved in the market; http://how-do-you-like-them-apples.info/
- online survey of people’s opinions about their shopping habits; [go straight to the survey: here how do you like them apples?
- a board game with the initial state of the city determined by people’s opinions and players assuming the roles of two competing supermarket chains;
EAT IT! City Simulator is a city-building game. Through providing elementary urban planning tools, it exposes the conflict and confrontations of public and private interests.
on the potential of digital games as a force for individual/community change in the future, and more, read this Serious/educational games interview with Kara Frame