Lately I’ve played a few rounds of Electrocity, a simulation game by a New Zealand power company in which the player gets to manage the power supply for a young city. It’s designed to be played by school kids, so the interface is deliberately a bit simpler than for most sim games, but otherwise it basically works in a familiar way: you have various resources, and you can build things (mines, gas wells, airports, hydro-electric plants) and clean them up. At the end of the game, you’re scored on how well you did at building a large population, a clean environment, and a steady power supply.
Category: education
Added several bits…
…including a long piece on Second Person; documentation of the way Inform 7 deals with Inform 6 entry points and library properties; a list of high school and college courses I know of that deal with IF.
A somewhat random assortment, perhaps.
Emily Short's Interactive Storytelling 