Videogame Helps Flood Defense Planning

Thanks to BBC News for its article discussing a videogame called 'FloodRanger' helping UK authorities work out strategies to cope with real-life flooding. According to the piece: "As in other virtual world games, like SimCity, players have God-like control, so social, economic and environmental decisions have knock-on effects", but this sim "was developed as part of the [UK Department of Trade and Industry]'s Foresight flood defence project." The official 'FloodRanger' page has more information on this also commercially released title, in which it's "...up to the player to decide where best to build appropriate sea or river flood defences, like dams, reservoirs or groynes, whilst keeping their public generally happy."

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Re:interesting....

[Bagels]

RTFP, and RTFA. It will be commercially available for 50 pounds - this is also a proper game, not just a government tool. So if you cough up the dough, presumably you can muck around with it all you want.