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Opencity
Screenshot of the videogame:
Name of producer:
Duong-Khang Nguyen
Date of production:
22 October 2009
Name of Distributor:
Free download from Internet
Cost of product:
0 €
Simulation
City-building
Isometric
Single player
Explorability of environment: | Poor0123456Excellent |
Memory of events: | Poor0123456Excellent |
Complexity of logic succession of events: | Poor0123456Excellent |
Number of alternative game paths for solution of events: | Poor0123456Excellent |
Presence of floating elements: Archiving of objects
Presence of maps
3D
Simulator: The player builds a city by marking land as commercial, industrial or residential zones. Those zones depend on each other to grow. The player is also required to supply the city with power and connect the different zones by building roads.
Graphics: | Poor0123456Excellent |
Interaction: | Poor0123456Excellent |
Graphics: | Poor0123456Excellent |
Interaction: | Poor0123456Excellent |
Using owner script: | Poor0123456Excellent |
External script coding: | Poor0123456Excellent |
Type of interface:
DOS
Availability and location of documentation:
Tutorial
Location:
http://www.opencity.info/en/TutorialToolcircle.html
2D / 3D License:
Freeware
>Cost of software(�):
0 €
Where to find it:
www.opencity.info/en/Download.html
Which software are useful for editing the videogame:
OpenCity is also an OpenGL/SDL/C++ game programming tutorial. In the resources section, you can find the micro simulators' algorithm, design document, UML diagram and information about other issues. The UML diagram is edited with Umbrello, the free UML diagram editor for KDE.
Poor0123456Excellent
Explain how the videogame can be used in an educational context:
They have to install basic services (electric powers, hospitals, police stations, colleges ...) and to re-qualify areas (industrial, residential and commercial), apart from having to construct electrical lines and roads. The area can raise or go down forming(training) rivers, mountains, valleys... Once basic services are placed and requalified some areas, the economic simulator create new industries, trades and houses in these zones.
Name of Evaluator:
IES Sant Vicent Ferrer - Maria Salud Ahuir Felici
Role of Evaluator:
Teacher
Country:
Spain
Date of Evaluation:
11/03/2012