Sometime back I wrote about the Sustainability game. Now gaming site Kotaku reports that Electronic Arts has teamed up with BP to add global warming and sustainability to SimCity. In a more realistic way that the simple game from NPR, this time you will see the effects of powering your city with CO2 producing sources. The partner for EA in this effort? BP.

“We really were interested in entertainment with a bit of education, rather than education with a bit of entertainment,” explained Carol Battershell, vice president of BP Alternative Energy, an initiative that has committed $8 billion over the next 10 years to making plants that generate cleaner electricity via solar, wind, natural gas and hydrogen power. BP wanted to help shape the interactive power grid of “Sim City Societies.”

I did say in my previous post how nice it would be to have a SecondLife based game for sustainability and global warming. I ill take SimCity. Since my wishes are coming true, I now wish that EA, BP, Comcast, PG&E all team up to come up with a game that als senses what power source you are using to run your computer while building the city. S in addition to what you use to power the cities if you are using a “non-green” source you will see the effects. You also will get dinged for spending too much time online as you waste power by using youur computer, the network and the server farms at EA.

This sure will be another fun question to ask John Riccitiello at >play on October 27th at Haas School of Business.

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