A new Open Source game

[sunson]

I wrote a game to illustrate peak oil and christened it "Oilsville". My hope is that people will now be able to grasp the phenomenon of peak oil - how any finite resource (or even a renewable resource stripped faster than it is being replenished) will peak with increased extraction and eventually start declining, no matter what improvements in

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[anonymous]

Well, i can help you with inserting ads into the game if you desire so ;)

- Parvesh

[anonymous]

Really nice idea Suraj. I have downloaded the game, but have a problem with sound at the moment. I am running it on Fedora, so couldn't just use the .deb package. I will sort it out another day.

I like the idea of making this accessible to people via Facebook. It is that demographic that REALLY need this information. I dumped Facebook a while back due to the supreme lack of interest of any of my friends in the issues that face our society and environment.

I would love to see Oilsville linked to Farmville: when the oil stops flowing your Farmville tractor stops working and you have to learn to plough using a horse ...

Perhaps it would be interesting to include some sort of simulation for petrol prices that tick along dependent upon your level of oil production?

Anyway, this little project has huge potential as an educational tool, so well done for putting it together!

[anonymous]

PS - This is LS again, I shall sign my comment in the future for ease of identification :-)

[sunson]

Ah, I posted my earlier comment before seeing this comment of yours :)

[sunson]

Hi, The game doesn't use any sound so that should be okay. Let me know what kind of problems you're facing and we can troubleshoot it.

I just made the source tar install the stuff for you. Just download the source tarball and read the "non-debian installs" section of the INSTALL file.

Let me know how it goes :)

Also, my idea was to not "link" farmville and oilsville. That would need co-operation from Farmville folk (which is Zynga). I was talking about a Farmville/Mafia Wars like game for facebook.

... and could you please identify yourself? :)

[anomalizer]

I haven't tried it out but the prospect of porting it alluring. Unfortunately for me, you are a week too late since work life seems like it is going to suck away all my time this week.

Way to go!

[kadambarid]

Cool. Would love to help but am caught up with research and coursework ... Maybe over the summer. Will let you know. I haven't used Perl. Python would be right up my alley :)

Re: Way to go!

[sunson]

Python programming - Like husband, like wife, eh? :)