From the people who produced the heritage minutes comes this:
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A video game simulation based on Canadian history is launching Thursday with high hopes the youth-friendly technology will make the country's past come alive for students.
HistoriCanada, developed by Toronto media firm Bitcasters, runs on the platform of the well-established Civilization III strategy game. Thomas Axworthy, HistoriCanada co-creator, said he hopes the game will engage Canadian youth in their own history.
"Canadian history is sometimes portrayed as dull as dishwater, and there's a perception that history is only interesting if there are a lot of battles," said Axworthy, the chair of the Queen’s University Centre for the Study of Democracy.
"But one of the things about civilization is that it's not just a war game, and that there's a complex interaction of economic, religious, social and military choices."
By putting those choices in the gamers' hands, Axworthy said, the new game will allow players to reshape Canadian history in a more interactive "what if?" approach.
"One of the most appealing elements of the game is anyone can win. If you are a skilful player playing as the Mi'kmaq, Atlantic Canada can be yours. And that's an important thing, because too often we tend to look at history as inevitable. But if you looked at a map in 1640 it sure didn't appear that way," he said.
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http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2...oricanada.html
Hmmm...I'm intrigued. Too bad it runs on Civ III and not Civ IV, though.
Also, what's with this?
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The million-dollar project has been 10 years in the making, with active development for the past two years. Funding has been provided by Telefilm Canada and supported by Historica and Canada’s National History Society.
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How can what basicly amounts to a simple scenario mod for Civ III have cost a million bucks? I suspect the development of the entire Civ III game didn't cost much more than that.