IBM Launches New Simulation Game

IBM has released a new massively multiplayer online game called CityOne to help urban planners and leaders to make their cities more efficient and environmentally sustainable. The game, which is free, allows players them to simulate the application of new innovative technology solutions to solve the problems facing their cities and businesses.

Here are some excerpts about CityOne from IBM’s press release:

More than 100 real-world scenarios. [Players must] transform cities related to initiatives such as alternative energy, traffic management, water management , banking and retail supply chains through a series of crisis scenarios. In all of the missions, the user must determine the best way to balance the city’s financial, environmental and sociological interests.

Players make decisions to improve the city by attaining revenue and profit goals, increasing customers’ and citizens’ satisfaction, and making the environment greener with a limited budget. In parallel, players will learn how the components of business process management, service reuse, cloud computing and collaborative technologies can make organizations in city systems more intelligent.

A video trailer of the game:

IBM CityOne

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