Actually playing computer games is not my favourite hobby. Still I like some of them, for example, SimCity.
This is a particular type of computer games. A "simulation game," SimCity gives you the opportunity to orchestrate the building and development of a city. The tremendous success of SimCity demonstrates the surprisingly compelling power of a particular kind of human-computer interaction.
SimCity makes you the Mayor and City Planner of your home made Metropolis and dares you to design and build the city of your dreams. Acting as Mayor, players must fight crime, unemployment and pollution, and balance the budget, to attract enough ”Sims” (simulated citizens) for a growing prosperous city. SimCity dares you to build your way, while surfing the waves of public opinion.
Beginning (in the basic scenario) with an undeveloped patch of land and an initial development fund, you create a city by choosing where and what kind of power plants to build; zoning industrial, commercial, and residential areas; laying down roads, mass transit, and power lines; and building police stations, fire departments, airports, seaports, and stadiums.…
