Empaville is a customizable “role-playing game that simulates a multi-channel Participatory Budgeting in the imaginary city of Empaville.” There are three possible roles that a player can hold: citizen, moderator, and backend operator. The backend operator is able to manage the submitted ideas, control the time allotted for and open and close the voting phase, and view analytics. The moderator is able to submit proposals to be reviewed and voted on by the citizens during the voting stage. Lastly, the citizen is able to view submitted proposals, reply to comments to discuss the proposal further, and during the voting stage, up-vote and down-vote a maximum of two proposals each. YouTube tutorials explaining how to use Empaville can be found here . Empaville is developed by Empatia, a consortium that aims to produce the first comprehensive technology platform to make Participatory Budgeting better and easier for all participants, based in Coimbra, Portugal.
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From the website: Minecraft is a game about breaking and placing blocks. At first, people built structures to protect against nocturnal monsters, but as the game grew players worked together to create wonderful, imaginative things. According to Wikipedia (as of April 19, 2015): Minecraft is a sandbox independent video game originally created by Swedish programmer Markus “Notch” Persson and later developed and published by the Swedish company Mojang. The creative and building aspects of Minecraft allow players to build constructions out of textured cubes in a 3D procedurally generated world. Other activities in the game include exploration, gathering resources, crafting, and combat. Multiple gameplay modes are available, including survival modes where the player must acquire resources to build the world and maintain health, a creative mode where players have unlimited resources to build with and the ability to fly, and an adventure mode where players play custom maps created by other players. Minecraft is available in a number of languages: English, Danish, Dutch, Spanish (General & Mexico), Finnish, French (General & Canada), Italian, Japanese, Korean, Norweigan, Polish, Portuguese (General & Brazil), Russian, Swedish, Chinese (Simplified & Traditional). Minecraft was acquired by Microsoft Corporation in 2014 and developed by Mojang , now functioning as a subsidiary of Microsoft.
According to Wikipedia : Second Life (SL) is a virtual world developed by Linden Lab that launched on June 23, 2003 and is accessible via the Internet. A free client program called the Second Life Viewer 1 enables its users, called Residents, to interact with each other through avatars. Residents can explore, meet other residents, socialize, participate in individual and group activities, and create and trade virtual property and services with one another, or travel throughout the world (which residents refer to as “the grid”). Second Life is for people aged 18 and over, while Teen Second Life is for people aged 13 to 17. Built into the software is a three-dimensional modeling tool based around simple geometric shapes that allows a resident to build virtual objects. This can be used in combination with the Linden Scripting Language which can be used to add functionality to objects. More complex three-dimensional sculpted prims (colloquially known as sculpties), textures for clothing or other objects, and animations and gestures can be created using external software. The Second Life Terms of Service ensure that users retain copyright for any content they create, and the server and client provide simple digital rights management functions.