ecoSim: an ecological simulation game

EcoSim is the third–place winner of the G4LI Game Design Competition. It was sumitted by Melissa DiFranco, Kai Johnson & Younyil Kim The following is a excerpt of design document (found here:http://g4li.org/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/Eco-Sim-Design-Documen.pdf) , describing the goals and market of the game in some detail: We based the content of the game on New York State middle school science curriculum concepts.  The concepts are divided into Key Ideas with a subdivision of performance indicators and major understandings.  While we do not include every concept associated with each Key Idea, we include those that are within the scope of our content. We are attempting to incorporate the following concepts: (New York State Education Department, pp 21-24) Eco Sim Design Documen