Getting the public to fully understand how water systems work and the resources it takes to properly maintain them is always a challenge for utilities. Maybe a video game can help?That’s the thinking of a team of professors at Indiana University, who are developing a web-based video game that can serve as a teaching tool about water infrastructure. Imagine the popular game series The Sims, only instead of guiding virtual people through life, players create virtual residential water systems and over time expand and upgrade those systems while accounting for the types of real-life challenges utilities face. The lead designer
Can a Video Game Be a Valuable Public Education Asset?
Faculty at Indiana University are developing a web-based game that allows players to simulate the management of an actual water system
Aug 15, 2017
| by Kyle Rogers |
