Download

Have a look at the first issue of the "Eat it! City Simulator: Supremacy" magazine. Download here:
eatit.pdf

Here you will find a .zip archive of all files needed to run the simulation.
superfood.zip
- bigfarm.png
- farm.png
- grass1.png
- house.png
- intro.png
- lost.png
- patterns.py
- run.png
- shop.png
- superfood.py
- super.png
- welcome.png
- won.png

Besides this, you will need to install Pygame. You can find a compatible version here:
http://www.pygame.org/download.shtml

Link to the git repository of the project:
http://gitorious.org/applepolis/eat_it

 

Relevant Links

Food

Bureau d’etudes, La belle au bois dormant, final edition, 2006, "L’agriculture conquise"
http://www.scribd.com/doc/191343/La-Belle-au-Bois-Dormant

Agriculture in the EU, B. Halahan, April 2009
http://www.wwf.org.uk/filelibrary/pdf/ag_in_the_eu.pdf

John Parkinson, "Democracy, Architecture and Public Space", University of York, posted in Januar 2006
http://www.claimingpublicspace.net/modules.php?name=News&le=article&sid=77

We Feed The World, a film by Erwin Wagenhofer, Austria, 2005.
http://we-feed-the-world.at/

Food Inc., a film by Robert Kenner, USA, 2006.
http://www.foodincmovie.com/

http://ec.europa.eu/news/agriculture/090318_1_en.htm

http://europa.eu/pol/food/index_en.htm

http://ec.europa.eu/news/agriculture/081119_1_en.htm

http://europa.eu/pol/financ/index_en.htm

http://www.foeeurope.org/GMOs/Index.htm

http://www.cosmosmagazine.com/node/15

http://www.grain.org/articles/?id=6

http://www.irational.org/cta/

http://www.irational.org/cgi-bin/language/language.pl?url=http://www.irational.org/cta/superweed/kit.html&language=english

http://duo.irational.org/food_for_free/

http://www.guerrillagardening.org/

http://fallenfruit.org/

Simulations, games

Flight Simulator, Wikipedia,
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Flight_simulator&oldid=365970153

Dry Shooting" for Airplane Gunners, Popular Science monthly, January 1919, p 13-14, (scanned by Google Books)
http://books.google.com/books?id=HykDAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA13

Simulations: Are They Games? Marc Prensky, chapter from Digital Game-Based Learning, McGraw-Hill, 2001
http://www.marcprensky.com/writing/Prensky%20-%20Simulations-Are%20They%20Games.pdf

Turing Machine, Wikipedia,
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Turing_machine&oldid=366106736

Serious Game, Wikipedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Serious_game&oldid=365898383

Serious game initiative,
http://www.seriousgames.org/about2.html

Landlord's Game, Wikipedia,
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Landlord's_Game

Kansas State Historical Society, Monopoly game
http://www.kshs.org/cool/monopoly.htm

Official SimCity 3000 website,
http://simcity3000unlimited.ea.com/us/guide/

'Serious games' for the Aussie industry, IT News for Australian Industry,
http://www.itnews.com.au/News/174083serious-games-for-the-aussie-industry.aspx

Superstruct game website, FAQ
http://www.superstructgame.org/s/superstruct_FAQ

The Monopolization of Monopoly - The Landlord's Game, Burton H. Wolfe ;
http://www.adena.com/adena/mo/mo06.htm

Constructionism, Seymour Papert and Idit Harel, Ablex Publishing Corporation, 1991; Situating Constructionism,
http://www.papert.org/articles/SituatingConstructionism.html

Social Simulation, Wikipedia,
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Social_simulation&oldid=362336566

Turtles, termites, and traffic jams
http://michel.wermelinger.ws/chezmichel/2010/03/turtles-termites-and-traffic-jams/

Don Hopkins on development of Micropolis:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BgniWEC4BMQ

Micropolis, Inside the Simulator,
http://code.google.com/p/micropolis/wiki/InsideTheSimulator

Micropolis Eduverse website,
http://micropolisonline.com/

Alan Kay's ideas about SimCity for OLPC,
http://micropolisonline.com/wiki/index.php/Alan_Kay#Responding_to_Alan_Kay.27s_criticisms_of_SimCity

http://newsgaming.com/

http://moleindustria.it

Gaming can make a better world, Jane McGonigal, TED talks February 2010,
http://www.ted.com/talks/jane_mcgonigal_gaming_can_make_a_better_world.html

Will Wright makes toys that make worlds, TED talks, March 2007,
http://www.ted.com/talks/will_wright_makes_toys_that_make_worlds.html

New Babylon, Constant Nieuwenhuis, Haags Gemeentemuseum, The Hague, 1974,
http://notbored.org/new-babylon.html

Games, Simulation, and the Military Education Dilemma, Michael Macedonia,
http://net.educause.edu/ir/library/pdf/ffpiu018.pdf

Handbook of Computer Game Studies, deited by Joost Raessens and Jeffrey Goldstein, part VI, chapter 24, "Computer Games as Participatory Media Culture", by Joost Raessens
http://www.scribd.com/doc/23614843/Computer-games-as-participatory-media-culture

Parasitic Interventions: Game Patches and Hacker Art, Anne-Marie Schleiner,
http://opensorcery.net/patchnew.html

SimEden.com, An Interview with Jacques Servin,
http://www.rtmark.com/more/articles/simedensimcopterinterview.html

Sprite, computer graphics, Wikipedia,
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Sprite_(computer_graphics)&oldid=364083560 )

The Free Dictionary,
http://www.thefreedictionary.com/simulation

Simulation, Wikipedia,
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Simulation&oldid=363798031

General System Theory: Foundations, Development, Applications, Ludwig von Bertalanffy, George Braziller, New York, 1968

Ludwig von Bertalanffy, passages from "General System Theory"
http://www.panarchy.org/vonbertalanffy/systems.1968.html

Kriegsspiel, a game of war Wikipedia:
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Kriegsspiel_(wargame)&oldid=356793212

Kriegsspiel News:
http://www.kriegsspiel.org.uk/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=15&Itemid=58

The Cybernetic Society,
http://www.cybsoc.org/

American Cybernetics Society,
http://www.asc-cybernetics.org/

Cybernetics, Wikipedia:
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Cybernetics&oldid=365880455,

The History and Development of Cybernetics,
http://www.gwu.edu/~asc/slideshow/cybernetics_web/slideshow.html

Macy Conferences, Wikipedia,
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Macy_conferences&oldid=342898657

Cybernetics: Or Control and Communication in the Animal and the Machine, Norbert Wiener, Paris, France: Librairie Hermann & Cie, and Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1948.

Von Neumann's Universal Constructor,
http://www.sq3.org.uk/wiki.pl?Von_Neumann's_Self-Reproducing_Universal_Constructor

Von Neumann's Universal Constructor, Wikipedia,
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Von_Neumann_universal_constructor&oldid=364091387

Theory of Self-Reproducing Automata, John Von Neumann, edited and completed by A. Burks; Univ. of Illinois Press, Urbana, IL, 1966

Conway's Game of Life, Wikipedia,
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Conway's_Game_of_Life&oldid=365920655