Climate change will come into SimCity. A new version of the city-building games that factor in the real world consequences of energy choices has won the support of the founder of Twitter Biz Stone and director of Academy Award winning documentary An Inconvenient Truth.
"We are updating the SimCity with current technology and the introduction of a new generation of gamers," said senior vice president, studio Maxis Lucy Bradshaw at Game Developers Conference in San Francisco this year.
"It gets under your skin, you are confronted with the idea of cause and effect and that the choices you make have an impact," he said.
Millions of people have played computer games since SimCity was designed by Will Wright first issued in 1989.
Native title win, the faithful and causing extensive successful franchise of the strategy game where players manipulate the Sims world, and character animation in real-life simulation.
Sims 3 Showtime software, released in addition to the latest version of the game, allowing players to act out fantasies become famous singers, acrobats, magicians or DJ.
Expansion pack adds a number of features, including one that allows players to send their character to be playing someone else over the Internet with the ability to be called "SimPort."
While the franchise has grown, has been almost a decade since the release the latest version of SimCity for desktop or laptop computer. A team of SimCity Maxis will have a fresh title for completion in 2013, according to Bradshaw.
Along with rich 3D graphics, the game will have a new simulation engine that increase the realism and expand as a result of urban design decisions and borders to affect neighboring cities.
"In SimCity limited resources, you fight with people who struggled with the decision today in the real world and your decisions can have global impact," said Bradshaw.
"So you contaminants and eventually will affect the city of your friends ... Do you have, the richest fittest, greenest city once or SimCity, the son of a gun sludgiest laik ever?"
Maxis working on the title of the Games For Change, a group devoted to creating games that combine fun with learning about social issues.
"I love the game," said the "Inconvenient Truth" director Davis Guggenheim, who played the early version of his son.
"Climate change is the biggest crisis of our time, but have decided that not in front of us," he added.
"When you play SimCity in your face, if you build a coal power plant electricity you feel the effects - fog of smoke in the city, the water get dirty table, and the people you are angry."
Twitter founder Stone also among the early enthusiasts new SimCity, which he said was in line with new initiatives to support systems that help create "a better, smarter world and a healthy planet."
Stone left the day-to-day role in Twitter last year dedicated to the Company is clear, that it was set up with fellow Twitter founder Evan Williams and Jason Goldman.
"While I am not a gamer I understand the strength of learning to play," said Stone.
"Learn the causes and consequences and the impact you can have a very large individual or corporate ... Reviews SimCity put us in a frame of mind."
Bradshaw recorded SimCity always mixed with realism and fantasy, "until you have never heard of any giant lizards may Trundle bend and blow your building down."
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