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Virtual-U (SimUniversity) Now Available

Posted by chrisd on from the hope-it-can-simulate-my-last-3-credits dept.

Ben Sawyer writes "The Alfred P. Sloan Foundation's Virtual U project recently shipped a new version our university simulator. This software simulation game, available at www.virtual-u.org lets you play as president of a U.S. university. You choose how faculty spend time, allocate funds, and decide if you should give special admission to athletes. Version 2.0 improves the model, and adds new features. The product is supported through a grant by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. The product runs on Windows 2000/XP/9X/ME. The software is being used by a number of university education programs, and is part of an overall project to improve thinking about how universities are managed." No word on if virtual-u features a "BSA attack" scenario.

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  1. Re:Don't bother by martissimo · · Score: 5, Informative

    The game would definitely benefit from either a tutorial

    hmm something like this (241 KB PDF) ,or maybe this (22 MB zip file)

    lots of info listed right below the click here to download link ;)

  2. Re:Posted already? by Ben+Sawyer · · Score: 2, Informative

    Hi,

    I don't think anything was posted given that I'm involved with the project and do the postings and grassroots reachout.

    We've been around for a while but until 2.0 was complete we hadn't done a ton of aggressive posting about the project. I did submit a note about a paper on public policy games of which Virtual U was mentioned but that was a general discussion of games in general not Virtual U specifically. Perhaps someone else might have posted something about it? In any case the only other thing I would submit is when the source becomes available later next month...

    Ben Sawyer

  3. Re:Anyone else get problems? by Ben+Sawyer · · Score: 2, Informative

    This problem should have been solved... I'm checking on it. Run the Vu.exe from the root directory you installed it too and see if that solves it... it's a problem in a desktop shortcut that shouldn't be there. We might have some latent downloads still out there which weren't updated. I have my admin looking into it. Sorry. - Ben Sawyer