• Metropolis: an emerging serious game for the smart city Jose Aguilar a,e, Francisco Díaz a, Junior Altamiranda a, Jorge Cordero c, Danilo Chavez b & Jose Gutierrez d a CEMISID, Facultad de Ingeniería, Universidad de Los Andes, Mérida,
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[email protected] e GIDITIC Informática y Sistemas, Universidad EAFIT, Medellín, Colombia Received: July 4th, 2019. Received in revised form: September 16th, 2019. Accepted: November 11th, 2019 Abstract Emerging serious games mark the beginning of a new era in video games. Emerging serious games introduce advances in distributed artificial intelligence into their design in order to guide the player’s manipulation of a specific subject in an adaptive way. In this article, we present a city simulator game, called Metropolis, which generates emergent properties. Metropolis can be used by a smart city for city planning, to make collective decisions, and for other purposes. This paper describes why Metropolis can be classified as a serious game. It also analyzes how its emergent properties can be used for managing a smart city, and especially how it promotes e-participation as an e- decision-making tool within the context of urban planning. In addition, this paper explores how Metropolis can be used to analyze a smart city’s emergent citizen and urban patterns (urban spatial distribution) based on strong e-participation.