Social Analysis and Modeling for Python

[Bishara Gabriel]

Tim Churches wrote:

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>Seriously, the benchmark these days are games like SimCity, Civilisation
>and Age of Empires, or The Sims for a more personal perspective.
>Spending a few days playing these games is mandatory research for the
>Social Analysis and Modelling for Python team. 
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>Are there any existing open source or commercial simulation games
>written in or scriptable with Python, I wonder?
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Well, we did not budget into the proposal the purchase of SimCity, 
Civilization, and/or Age of Empires.  So I do not think this will at all 
play into our design.  However, if someone would like to donate these 
games to our effort, we would then be capable of incorporating and 
taking into account their simulative qualities.

I do not know of any python simulation games, just RPGs and FPSs which 
use Python as a glue and game engine driver.  There are open source 
simulations though, just not in Python.  Remember though that this is 
not intended to be some sort of simplistic, fun, entertainment oriented 
development.  It is (in theoretical existence) a serious academic tool 
intended to serve the demands of social scientific research. 

Sincerely,
 Bishara Gabriel