[HN Gopher] Maxis' former "serious games" division (2020) ___________________________________________________________________ Maxis' former "serious games" division (2020) Author : Redoubts Score : 79 points Date : 2022-01-16 17:08 UTC (5 hours ago) (HTM) web link (arstechnica.com) (TXT) w3m dump (arstechnica.com) | _1tan wrote: | Anyone has more information on Simpower? I even tried getting in | touch with ESRI to no avail. | thrower123 wrote: | One of my favorite Sim games, SimTower, started life as an | elevator management and scheduling simulation and had a game | bolted on afterwards. | shalmanese wrote: | This needs a [2020] in the title as significant new information | has been unearthed as a consequence of this article as mentioned | in other comments in this thread. | dang wrote: | Year added above. Thanks! | proggy wrote: | And, like clockwork, just a few weeks after this article's | publication in mid-2020, a floppy diskette of SimRefinery was | found and the game was provided to Ars Technica for further | discussion [1]. | | [1] https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2020/06/a-lost-maxis-sim- | game... | [deleted] | trilinearnz wrote: | Loving those double-res Sim City 2000 sprites from SimHealth :) | Beautiful. | rl3 wrote: | Don Hopkins has written up a wealth of information about | SimRefinery on HN before, and it's all terribly interesting: | | https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23425368 | | https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23425542 | | https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24163430 | psahgal wrote: | Should this link be replaced with the original source? Ars | Technica linked to the original blog post in the first paragraph, | and the rest of the article summarizes the original source. | Here's the blog post in question: | https://obscuritory.com/sim/when-simcity-got-serious/ ___________________________________________________________________ (page generated 2022-01-16 23:00 UTC)