One of my favorite games from childhood, SimCity, has been released to the world and is being adapted specially to the OLPC under the name "Micropolis."
I couldn't be more excited. The build instructions looked a little gnarly to me, so I'll probably need to wait until my very own OLPC arrives from California to play with it. If it's still fun, I might have a go at building it up on the Mac so that others can play with it if they are so inclined.
The Micropolis people say that they're planning on eventually porting the whole shebang over to Python from TCL/TK (pronounced 'tickle-tea-kay' by those in the know). I'm a little disappointed that they didn't choose to refactor the app in Squeak. Oh well, Python will be good too. It'll be interesting to see how complex / simple the rulesets are that govern the function of cities.
Thursday, February 21, 2008
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Guess I'd better head for the post office, eh?
Make sure you let me know how much shipping runs. With the kiwi dollar over US$0.80, I'm feeling rich! ;-) Anyway, I have been itching to try it out, so that would be awesome!
Peter, you weenie, I am waiting for another post.
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