Canadian Town Uses Sim City-like Game to Engage Citizens

March 14, 2007 -
A small city in Ontario has big ideas about growth, and is using game tech to help achieve them.

As reported by the Guelph Mercury, the town of Guelph, Ontario (pop. 114,943) hopes to draw residents into the planning process with GuelphQuest, a Sim City-like affair. The game allows players to experiment with future deveopment without investing money or a great deal of time. Said Craig Manley, manager of policy planning and urban development:
There's no question that this is an innovative way of trying to deal with growth. It certainly has an educational component and a way of trying to get people to see that Guelph is going to change.

Guelph is one of Ontario's fastest-growing areas and Manley sees a need to coordinate city planning with provincial regulations.

The game, available on the city's website, asks players questions about issues like transportation and environmental concerns. Maps are generated based on user input, showing results - positive and negative - of the player's choices.

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Guelph is hardly one of Ontario's fastest growing areas. Brampton, Mississauga and such are. Guelph is a university town: people leave as fast as they come in.

I concur with Nick. I live in Brampton and it's rapidly growing (it used to be all farmland, now it's houses).

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Guelph is a university town, by the way,

A population of over 114,000 and they're still a "small" city? O_o

This is a good idea, a really good idea. Now most citizens can try to make sure there isn't too much wasted space due to bad decision by city planners.

Living near geulph, I can tell you they also have the most churches per person then any other canadian town, and also the most hookers per person too. Friday night in geulph, every corner (usually with a church) is lined with drunks and prostitutes!

Crazy town.

Neat, I like how it lists your choices, and then you can watch the map and "key factors" change as you modify your decisions while trying to optimize them.

One option I would have liked though is a perimeter road. Where I live they're finally getting around to planning on how to complete the one they've got, but the busiest part is also filled with traffic lights because the city let businesses build directly on it instead of putting in a few key intersections. Makes for very bad traffic flow...

SimCity4:Small-town Canada ;)
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Hmm what will be more important to the player? Tax revenue or leaving green space......

Oh sorry I was thinking about where I live.


This interesting, I wonder if it can be adapted to other places?

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That a nice idea. It nice to see governments and industry embrace gaming. We might have actually reached a point were gaming become more of a social norm.

"There’s no question that this is an innovative way of trying to deal with growth. It certainly has an educational component and a way of trying to get people to see that Guelph is going to change."

I play this game on my PC. Why would a city want to use it for any purpose of training? Are they so behind in research?
 
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