Power Up Renewable energies game from IBM

The multinational IBM has launched ‘Power Up’, a new three-dimensional video game that challenges youth to help save a virtual world called ‘Helios’ of an impending environmental disaster through missions related to solar, wind and water energy .

According to the company, this download free web game called PowerUp the Game, serves the interest of children in virtual worlds to plunge into topics such as energy conservation and engineering concepts. In this context, the players will have to build solar towers or repair of wind turbines looking pieces in scrapyards.

‘Power Up’ encourages players to become experts in renewable energy and create electricity using green sources. Global warming ‘traps’ to the player who accepts the challenge of reducing CO2 emissions and repair the infrastructure of renewable energy that had been destroyed because of sandstorms and floods that threaten the planet.

The launch of the game in Spain coincides with the International Exhibition on Energy and Environment, held this week in Madrid, a meeting with an approach to energy efficiency and the environment.

‘Power Up’ includes a theoretical and practical training manual that helps teachers to bring students to topics such as the processing and use of renewable energy. At the same time, players will find characters “engineers” who accompany them as guides throughout the game.

The experts at IBM Innovation applied their knowledge in 3D and virtual worlds to develop the game in about 16 months and about 200 young people served as advisors during this time to give life to ‘Power Up’.

The project is under the Social Action Program IBM TryScience in which IBM, New York Hall of Science and science centers around the world to stimulate interest in science and technology.

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