4 November 2010
Climate change isn’t a game. Or is it?
Posted by vivienne
The fate of the world could rest on your computer. I’m talking about the Fate of the World: a PC strategy game with a geoscientific twist. A beta version of the game is now available.
Players must lead the world’s growing population through the next 200 years of climate change based on – the game’s developers say – “the latest science”. They’ve roped in climate scientist Dr Myles Allen from the University of Oxford to give advice.
The game was created by UK indie developer Red Redemption. They’re a team of coders with a conscience, whose previous game Climate Challenge is available to download from the BBC’s website.
Fate of the World costs £9.99 plus tax (about US $19.00) to pre-order and you can download the beta straight away. I’ve found reviews of the beta by PC Gamer and the Guardian. There’s also interviews and discussion about the game on the Guardian website.
The final version of the game is scheduled for launch in February 2011 by digital download. A CD version is promised in March 2011.
Vivienne’s blog covers the latest discoveries about how the Earth’s mountains, atmosphere, coasts, oceans, ice, deserts and rivers work. Partly it’s a news source for the geoscience that climate change forgot. The rest is a science exhibition for the outdoors — explaining what we know about our surroundings.
Ryan said on 4 November 2010
Cool! Reminds me of this TED talk about making the world a better place by making time spent playing video games productive: http://www.ted.com/talks/jane_mcgonigal_gaming_can_make_a_better_world.html
vivienne said on 5 November 2010
I’ll watch that – thanks!
DitelHead said on 8 November 2010
There is no difference between a computer game and these climate models. A computer can not evaluate whether the assumptions it is programed with have anything to do with reality. The AGU does not represent the opinions of the majority of Geologists!
http://www.realclimate.org/index.php/archives/2008/08/are-geologists-different/
http://www.agu.org/meetings/fm06/fm06-sessions/fm06_PP23E.html
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