by W.F » 27 Jun 2025, 23:18
Mayor of a Virtual City
One of most successful commercial games, SimCity, has been widely heralded by teachers for the pure core details for education purposes. In the game, players create their own cities complete with urban and residential zones, public transportation, utility’s infrastructure, government services, public spaces, and entertainment ventures, SimCity illustrates the impact of the planning and administration of a city’s economic, social, environment, and political consequences.
A game such as SimCity is very useful when discussing how city management affects students’ real lives. As students play, they can identify and experiment with how their virtual decisions might impact the real-world city they know. Students are continuously monitoring the cause and effect of the in-game actions and judging how “realistically” the simulation portrays the result. According to someone I totally forgot his name if SimCity permitted players to build a modern virtual city without electricity’s, no one would pay for it. Developers will continue to build on the educational aspects of game such as SimCity, Expanding the potential of gam simulations as classroom tools for students to learn more about the world around them.
Mayor of a Virtual City
One of most successful commercial games, SimCity, has been widely heralded by teachers for the pure core details for education purposes. In the game, players create their own cities complete with urban and residential zones, public transportation, utility’s infrastructure, government services, public spaces, and entertainment ventures, SimCity illustrates the impact of the planning and administration of a city’s economic, social, environment, and political consequences.
A game such as SimCity is very useful when discussing how city management affects students’ real lives. As students play, they can identify and experiment with how their virtual decisions might impact the real-world city they know. Students are continuously monitoring the cause and effect of the in-game actions and judging how “realistically” the simulation portrays the result. According to someone I totally forgot his name if SimCity permitted players to build a modern virtual city without electricity’s, no one would pay for it. Developers will continue to build on the educational aspects of game such as SimCity, Expanding the potential of gam simulations as classroom tools for students to learn more about the world around them.
